How the game works.
A quick tour of how photo bingo plays on phones, how it plays on the projector, and what you can configure for your event.
Bingo, the basics.
Every board is a 5×5 grid: 24 prompts plus a free center tile. Guests mark a tile by taking or uploading a photo that matches the prompt.
String enough marked tiles together into a winning shape and you score. No app, no login: just scan the QR and play. A stable connection, venue Wi-Fi or good reception, keeps photo uploads and the big screen live; mobile data works too.
Three ways to win.
Organizers choose which win conditions count toward their leaderboard. Guests can chase any of them.
Any complete row, column, or diagonal.
Two complete lines on the same board.
Every square on the board marked.
Same board, or every board different.
Same board (fixed)
Every guest gets the same 24 prompts in the same spots. The whole crowd races the same board, so cheers and groans land in unison.
Same board for everyone
Weddings, dinners, and small parties where guests compare boards and chase the same prompts together.
Different boards (random)
Each guest gets a random 24 drawn from a pool you curate, up to 100 prompts. The bigger the pool, the more every board differs; no two need match.
Every guest a different board
Long events like wedding receptions, open houses, and parties, where hours of play mean fresh boards keep guests engaged.
Pin must-have prompts
In random mode, pin any prompt to guarantee it lands on every guest’s board. That works well for a couple’s first dance or a company milestone. The rest stay randomly drawn, and pinned prompts still shuffle to different spots, so boards stay unique.
Pinned prompts appear on every board. Other squares stay random.
How the leaderboard scores.
First bingo
Guests are ranked by who reaches bingo first. The earliest bingo takes the top spot, and everyone else follows in the order they hit theirs.
Short, competitive moments where speed to bingo decides the order.
Milestones
Guests climb a leaderboard that keeps moving: line, then double line, then blackout. Everyone can still chase a higher milestone as the night goes on. Ties at the same milestone are settled by your tiebreaker setting — fastest first, or fullest board first.
Multi-hour events where you want guests engaged the whole time.
Raffle
Bingos earn tickets instead of ranks — a line is worth 1, a double line 2, a blackout 3. You draw prize winners live from the ticket pool whenever you like.
Pick this when you want everyone in with a chance, not just the fastest players.
Who confirms the win.
Pick Instant for a relaxed night, or approve wins yourself when prizes are on the line. If the queue backs up, you can switch to Instant mid-event.
You approve (verification on)
The leaderboard and photo counts keep updating live as guests play. When a guest hits a winning shape, it shows as a pending mark on their name and lands in your Approve wins queue. It doesn’t change the ranking yet. Only wins you approve move the leaderboard, so if nobody works the queue during the event, the leaderboard stays empty and guests sit on "Pending review" all night.
Prize events and formal weddings — but only when you have named someone to watch the queue on their phone for the whole event. If nobody is on it, pick Instant.
Instant (verification off)
Wins are credited the instant the bingo is detected. The leaderboard updates immediately and the crowd reacts in real time.
Casual parties and laid-back events where speed and momentum matter more than formality.
Photo moderation, built in.
When screening is on, every photo a guest uploads is checked automatically for inappropriate content, and anything flagged stays off the boards, the album and the big screen.
You can turn screening off for an event. If the screening service is ever unavailable, photos still go through so your event keeps running.