Most people have played bingo at some point in their lives. The game is fun and so simple that even small children can pick up the game quickly. The standard rules for the game involve playing using bingo cards with a grid of 5 fields, each of these fields containing a number between 1 and 75. Customized versions of the game, played with bingo cards imprinted with the words, phrases, or even math problems are becoming more popular. These variants of the game are now quite common not only in social and community events, but also in schools and universities, where teachers are increasingly applying the game to education.
Although various versions of bingo are popular in education, including for teaching English and other languages, practicing reading skills and, of course, math, perhaps the most popular variants are those with holiday themes. In holiday versions of bingo, the bingo cards are printed with words or phrases related to the particular holiday. Thus, in a Christmas game, the cards might be printed with things like “Bethlehem” or “Santa Claus,” in a Valentine’s game with words, like “love” and “romance,” and in the case of Christmas bingo. On St. Patrick’s Day (which marks the Irish National Day which falls on March 17), words or phrases related to Ireland would be used, such as “Blarney Stone”, “Dublin”, “Guinness”, or “shamrock”.
St. Patrick’s Day bingo is suitable for people of all ages to play together, although it does require the game organizer to do a bit of pre-game pre-game work. The preparation work is not that difficult: the organizer simply needs to get some suitable themed bingo cards.
There are really three options to do it. The first option is to prepare the bingo cards by hand, but this is time consuming. The second option is to buy some pre-printed bingo cards with a St. Patrick’s Day theme; this is definitely possible but can be expensive. The third, and for most people the best option, is for the organizer to create the bingo cards using the organizer’s computer and some bingo card creation software. Using a computer saves time and money, plus it has the advantage that the software can be used over and over again to produce custom bingo cards for other events and holidays throughout the year.