How Do You Play Get to Know You Bingo with a Large Crowd?

For a large group of 100 or more people, running get to know you bingo can be tasking:

• Pricing out 100+ sheets
• Explaining the rules to a big group
• Getting people to participate (most people won't)

Especially, when the goal for bingo, is to encourage people to get up and get to know others in the room that they otherwise wouldn't interact with.

This is where digital get to know you bingo will be helpful.

A tool like Jam Bingo lets everyone play from their phone, so there's no printing, no shared pens, and no lost cards.

It also tracks completions automatically, so you can instantly see who finished first, second, third, and so on.

This matters most at scale: with a big group, you want to reward more than just one winner. Being able to see the first 30 or 50 people to finish means you can hand out swag or gift cards to a wider group, which keeps energy high across the whole room instead of just for one person.

A quick instruction sheet you can print on the back of the card or read aloud before a big group starts mingling.

• Scan the Jam Bingo QR code (or enter the game code).
• Conversation starters appear on each person's phone.
• Find someone in the room who matches one of the prompts.
• Scan their Jam Bingo QR code to unlock the next prompt.
• Keep mingling until you complete all your Jam Bingo prompts.

With 20 people, everyone can realistically talk to everyone.

With 100 or more, it becomes more challenging to manage an interactive networking activity. It usually ends up with people who feel more comfortable staying with their cliques (which defeats the whole networking interactive exercise).

Ice breaker for a large group (100+ people)

Networking reception ice breaker for company event