Printable Eurovision Bingo Cards

Well it's Eurovision 2023 week and you know what that means... it's Eurovision Bingo time!

This year I decided it's about time for some new printable Eurovision Bingo cards, so here's the 2023 edition. There are four cards, they all have the same 25 items but in different places, so everybody gets to check them off but (in theory) you should complete different lines at different times.

It's not an exact science and it's just for fun, so don't take it too seriously. I'm not the police of what does and doesn't qualify - how high is a 'very high' note? How long is 'very long' hair? You be the judge.

You can grab a printable PDF of the full set of printable Eurovision Bingo cards from my Google Drive here, or just save and print the images below. (The images you see here are thumbnails so click them, or right-click and choose "Open link in new tab" to get to the high-res versions to print.)

I've done my best - I watched both semi-finals to make certain that everything on these Eurovision Bingo cards should happen at least once on Saturday! I think they're pretty evergreen anyway, so hopefully everyone will have a full house well before the final act performs.

Have fun, get tipsy if that's your thing, and enjoy the show!

How I Single-Handedly Won Eurovision 2021 for Italy

Last night was the grand final of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest and an impressive victory for Italy's Måneskin with a total score of 524 points for their song 'Zitti e Buoni'.

I'd like to think I'm at least partly, if not solely responsible for this stunning win, after recently celebrating the seventh anniversary of one of my most successful tweets of all time.

Back in 2014, Eurovision was held a few weeks earlier in the year, with the final taking place on May 10th. In the good old days, the subtitles showed foreign-language lyrics translated into English, whereas nowadays they tend to display them in their original language.

That gave us the gem of a lyric "I love parking inattentively" in the 2014 Italy Eurovision entry 'La Mia Città' by Emma Marrone.

I thought it was a pretty great line, so I took a quick, semi-blurry snapshot of my TV screen and tweeted it with the words "BEST LYRIC OF THE NIGHT", a couple of Eurovision-related hashtags, and CC'd the Twitter account @yplac which celebrates inattentive parking.

BEST LYRIC OF THE NIGHT #Eurovision #Italy cc @yplac pic.twitter.com/JIy3J3UTOS

— Bobble Bardsley (@bobblebardsley) May 10, 2014

Apparently other people also enjoyed the lyric, as to date by May 2021 it has received a total of:

• Over 1,500 retweets
• Nearly 900 likes
• 40 replies

Unfortunately I don't think full analytics were available at that time, so I don't know exactly how many impressions and interactions it's had, but it must be in the tens of thousands at the very least.

It's also featured in several BuzzFeed articles by Scott Bryan which I'm sure have helped it to remain 'current' despite its ever-increasing age over the past seven years. Thanks Scott!