Bingo Link: A New Twist On An Old Game

Posted on Dec 31, 2010 by 2 Comments
Bingo Link: A New Twist On An Old Game

What is it with kids and bingo? They love it. I love it until the kids fight over who gets to turn the cage filled with bingo balls and call the number out. They go crazy over that part. There’s a budding game show host in every child, I guess.

I also appreciate games that put a new twist on a classic. Bingo Link is a new game from Gamewright that takes traditional bingo into a different dimension.

This version seems to combine a little bit of I Spy (or Can You See What I See?) with bingo. As items are chosen, you find them on your bingo card. In order to achieve bingo, you have to mark off all the spaces between the two items marked on either end of your board. Whoever makes a link across their board from one end to the other first is the winner!

As in traditional bingo, there are separate playing boards, all with the objects in different locations. So it’s never the same game twice.

Gamewright says this game is for ages 6 and up, but I’ve got a kindergartener and I think both she and her preschooler friends could have fun with this game too. As I’ve said in other posts where I’ve spotlighted games, sometimes it just takes a little bit of modifying rules to involve younger players, and I believe this game would be no exception.

I’d be interested to see at what age interest in this game might top out. My 7 year-old still enjoys bingo and this twist might keep him entertained longer than normal bingo would. But the I Spy component might feel a bit juvenile once kids push 9 or 10 years old.

You can purchase Bingo Link for about $14 at Amazon:

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  • Ruby T.

    What’s wrong with regular Bingo? Kids learn how to chart the numbers and letters on a proper graph structure that makes more sense educationally than this complex grid of pictures. I’m also confused as to which age group this would appeal.

  • Henny Ort

    I love this game. It seems perfect for my four year old, who can spot pictures, but playing a game with numbers would be too challenging. This game would teach him to be observant to items, name and find things, etc. Plus he’d get practice into playing fair, playing games together with others and following rules in order to win. I’m game.