Family Reunion Bingo Cards

Within forty minutes, someone has mapped out exactly how everyone in attendance is related to everyone else. The potato salad debate is already happening. A kid nobody recognizes has been running through the background of every photo for an hour. Family reunion bingo gives the multigenerational chaos somewhere to go — "someone brings up a story from 1987," "two relatives discover they live twenty minutes apart and never knew," "the family photo takes longer to set up than the reunion itself." It's the one game that the eight-year-old and the eighty-year-old can both win, which is exactly the kind of thing that makes a reunion feel less like an obligation.