How do you play multiplication bingo?

Every player gets a card of answers. The caller reads out a sum, such as 7 times 8, without its answer. Any player who has 56 on their card covers it. The first with a full line across, down or corner to corner calls bingo, and the caller checks that line against the ticks on the caller's sheet.

How many different bingo cards can I print?

From 2 to 30 in one set, and no two are the same. A 5 by 5 card needs 24 different answers. If the tables you tick have fewer, the cards come out 4 by 4 or 3 by 3, because a card never holds a number twice. One table on its own has 12 different answers, and all twelve together have 59.

Which multiplication games work for a whole class?

Bingo is the one that stretches: the card maker prints up to 30 different cards and one caller's sheet. For pairs, print a dragon race board or a four in a row board for every two children and hand out two dice. Nothing on this page needs an account, so nobody has to log in.

Which multiplication games need no printer?

Multiplication war needs a deck of cards, and the two dice games need two dice. The cube game, quick fire, the flash cards and the wheel run on a phone or tablet, or on a laptop.

Can you practice the bigger times tables with ordinary dice?

Yes. Two dice only reach 6 × 6, so add 6 to one of them before you multiply. A roll of 3 and 5 becomes 9 × 5, which is 45. That turns the two dice games and the dragon race into practice for the 7s to the 12s.

Is everything on this page free?

The bingo cards, the two boards, quick fire, the flash cards and the wheel are free, with no sign-up. In the cube game, levels 1 to 5 of every table are free and the 10 times table is free from start to end. The other levels open with our book, which comes out in November 2026.

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Multiplication games

Games for a screen, a deck of cards, a sheet of paper, or two dice in your pocket.

Some of these need a printer and some need nothing at all. We sorted them by what you have on hand, because that is usually what decides it.

On a screen

Times tables games with ten dragons

Ten dragons are asleep in ten cages, one for each table from 2 to 11. Behind each door is a cube game. One level is one answer of that table, and after five levels a padlock wakes up. Get its four numbers right and the dragon walks out.

Start with the 10s if you are new. A card remembers how far you got on this phone, tablet or computer.

With a deck of cards

A multiplication card game: war

The old card game War, with one change: you multiply. It needs an ordinary deck and two players, and a game is twelve turns.

The full rules of multiplication war

That page also has easier and harder ways to play and number cards to print. If you have printed a deck of our flash cards, there are four more games for it on their page.

Take the four Kings out of an ordinary deck of cards. An Ace is 1, a Jack is 11, a Queen is 12.
Deal the cards face down into two piles.
Both players turn over two cards and multiply them.
The bigger answer takes all four cards.
The same answer is a WAR: two more cards each, and the bigger answer takes all eight.

With paper · for 2 to 30 players

Multiplication bingo: a card maker

Tick the tables, say how many players, and print. Every player gets a different card. You get the caller's sheet, with every sum to read out and its answer next to it.

The cards are made right here in your browser. Nothing is saved and nothing is sent anywhere.

1. Which tables?

2. How many players?

42 to 30. One card each.

The 2, 5 and 10 times tables have 28 different answers. Each card holds 24 of them around a free middle square.

To play, the caller reads out a sum and never its answer. Whoever has the answer on their card covers it with a button or a bean. The first full line wins: across, down or corner to corner.

A bingo card holds answers only, so the SAME square can be won by different sums. 24 is 3 × 8 and it is 4 × 6. The caller's sheet lists each answer once.

With paper and two dice · free to print

Two multiplication board games, one page each

Dragon race. Roll two dice, say what they make, and move forward by ONE of the two dice. You choose which, and that is where the game is: one die may land you on "Go forward 3" and the other on "Go back 4". The rules are printed on the board, and the ten dragons stand along the path, each with its name.

Four in a row on the chart. The board is the corner of the multiplication chart, from 1 × 1 to 6 × 6. Roll two dice, cover the square where they meet, and get four of your counters in a row before the other player does.

Dragon race, a board game
A path of 37 squares from START to FINISH, with the ten dragons and their names along the way, and six squares that send you forward or back. The rules are printed on the board.
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Four in a row on the chart
The 1 to 6 corner of the multiplication chart as a board for two dice. The rules are printed above it.
1 page · PDF
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With two dice and nothing else

Two multiplication dice games

For a waiting room, a restaurant table or the back seat. Each takes about as long to explain as to read.

1
First to ten
Each player rolls two dice and multiplies them. The bigger answer scores a point, and the same answer scores nothing. The first to ten points wins.
2
Odd or even
Before you roll, call it: will the answer be odd or even? Then roll both dice and multiply. A right call is a point. After a few rounds somebody notices that even wins 27 rolls out of 36, which is three times out of four. Ask them why. (The answer is only odd when BOTH dice are odd.)

Dice stop at 6 × 6. To reach the bigger tables, add 6 to one die before you multiply: a 3 and a 5 become 9 × 5 = 45.

At a glance

Which game for which times table

A child who is learning ONE table wants a game that stays on that table. A child who knows most of them wants them mixed up.

Game	Tables it practices	You need
The cube game with the dragons	One table at a time, 2 to 11	A phone or tablet, or a laptop
Quick fire	2 to 12, mixed up	A phone or tablet, or a laptop
Flash cards	Any tables from 1 to 12, or the 45 facts	A screen, or a printed deck
The wheel	One table at a time, 1 to 12	A screen, or a printed wheel
Multiplication war	1 to 12, mixed up. Fewer if you take cards out	A deck of cards
Bingo	The tables you tick, 1 to 12	A printer, and buttons or beans
Dragon race	1 to 6. Up to 12 if you add 6 to a die	A printer, two dice, a counter each
Four in a row	1 to 6	A printer, two dice, counters
First to ten, and Odd or even	1 to 6. Up to 12 if you add 6 to a die	Two dice

For one table at a time there is also a page for each of them, from the 2 times table to the 11 times table. They are all on the times tables page.

Questions

Grown-ups ask

How do you play multiplication bingo?: Every player gets a card of answers. The caller reads out a sum, such as 7 times 8, without its answer. Any player who has 56 on their card covers it. The first with a full line across, down or corner to corner calls bingo, and the caller checks that line against the ticks on the caller's sheet. The card maker prints both.
How many different bingo cards can I print?: From 2 to 30 in one set, and no two are the same. A 5 by 5 card needs 24 different answers. If the tables you tick have fewer, the cards come out 4 by 4 or 3 by 3, because a card never holds a number twice. One table on its own has 12 different answers, and all twelve together have 59.
Which multiplication games work for a whole class?: Bingo is the one that stretches: the card maker prints up to 30 different cards and one caller's sheet. For pairs, print a dragon race board or a four in a row board for every two children and hand out two dice. Nothing on this page needs an account, so nobody has to log in.
Which multiplication games need no printer?: Multiplication war needs a deck of cards, and the two dice games need two dice. The cube game, quick fire, the flash cards and the wheel run on a phone or tablet, or on a laptop.
Can you practice the bigger times tables with ordinary dice?: Yes. Two dice only reach 6 × 6, so add 6 to one of them before you multiply. A roll of 3 and 5 becomes 9 × 5, which is 45. That turns the two dice games and the dragon race into practice for the 7s to the 12s.
Is everything on this page free?: The bingo cards, the two boards, quick fire, the flash cards and the wheel are free, with no sign-up. In the cube game, levels 1 to 5 of every table are free and the 10 times table is free from start to end. The other levels open with our book, which comes out in November 2026.

Our own book

Where the ten dragons come from

For grown-ups · it comes out in November 2026

The dragons on this page belong to our times tables book, one dragon to a table. The book is where a table gets learned: each one has its own blackboard, with the answers you already know in orange and a star on the two to learn first.

The games are for afterwards, when the answers are in and need to come faster. The book also opens levels 6 to 10 of the cube game.

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