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Thriller Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. protagonist acts suspicious for no reason
  2. police are incompetent
  3. unnecessary misogyny
  4. the spouse is the villain
  5. story about siblings
  6. small town vibes
  7. nature/wilderness setting
  8. intense scene featuring the protagonist driving
  9. someone comes back from the dead or "dead"
  10. supernatural/unexplained element
  11. dinner party scene
  12. Someone knows something they shouldn't (and mentions it)
  13. red herring
  14. one or more characters explicitly described as a psychopath
  15. pets are acting weird
  16. Someones doing some casual stalking
  17. mental illness used as a plot device
  18. everyone suspects the wrong person
  19. college or private school setting
  20. something that happened years ago gets revealed later on
  21. "she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding"
  22. someone disappears
  23. the villain is always one step ahead
  24. cheating
  25. epilogue with the protagonist moving on from the events of the novel
  26. plot hole
  27. isolated house
  28. Dual pov
  29. two people are actually one person
  30. Protagonist with 'quirky' characteristic
  31. Unreliable narrator
  32. creepy children
  33. protagonist makes bad choices involving their safety
  34. podcast
  35. plot twist
  36. "she was actually dreaming/imagining things the whole time!"
  37. pov change midway through