Star Wars Bingo
It's Star Wars and it's Bingo. This is a game from Thames & Hudson for which surely no players will need a rules explanation. Whereas Bingo is traditionally played with numbers pulled from a bag, Star Wars Bingo substitutes Star Wars characters for the numbers.
Each of the 2–6 players takes a Bingo card showing 16 Star Wars characters. The 'caller' takes a sturdy paper bag that contains 56 card tokens representing the various different characters, so instead of calling out 'two little ducks: 22' the caller could be drawing 'R2-D2'. The characters are all cartoon renditions by Max Dalton. The majority will be instantly recognisable by most Star Wars fans but there are sure to be some that are more obscure. In any event, you don't need to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the franchise to play: the Bingo cards and all the tokens have the character names printed on them.
Produced in collaboration with the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, the game features characters from right across the Star Wars universe, drawing on all the movies and both live-action and animated TV series, so ranging from the original Star Wars movie (Episode IV: A New Hope) through to the 2026 Mandalorian and Grogu movie.
If you've a Star Wars fan in the family, this could make a great Christmas gift and an easy inter-generational game to pull out and play after Xmas dinner. Click here to order it from Bookshops.org.
