Kraken Bingo

Turn your bucket list into a bingo card your friends can see

Twenty-five things you actually want to do this year, on one card, with the people who will ask you about them.

Why this works as a bingo card

Resolutions fail privately. That's most of the reason they fail. In January you write down six things, tell nobody in detail, and by March there is no version of the list anywhere that anyone would notice you had abandoned. Nothing about the format makes you come back to it.

A bucket list works better as a bingo card for two reasons. The grid turns a vague year into 25 specific things, which is the difference between "travel more" and "sleep somewhere with no address". And sharing the card with four or five friends means the list stops being a private promise: they can see it, they are chasing their own lines, and a completed row is worth telling everyone about. The photo you upload for each square is the part you'll still be looking at in five years.

Set it up in five minutes

1
Create a team
Make a team with whoever you want on this with you — a group of friends, a couple, siblings, a running club.
2
Add a game and pick the board
A 5×5 card is the right size for a year: 25 goals is ambitious without being a second job.
3
Paste the tasks
Paste the list below and rewrite it properly. This is the one card where the tasks should be yours, not ours.
4
Invite everyone
Send the invite link to the group. Everyone gets their own card from the same pool of goals.
5
Play, and prove it
Upload a photo whenever you finish one. The others see it in the feed and get to comment on it.

25 tasks you can copy

A 5×5 board needs exactly 25 tasks, so this list fills a card with nothing left over. Copy it and paste it straight into the bulk task field.

1Sleep somewhere with no address
2Learn to cook one dish properly
3Read three books in one month
4Swim in cold open water
5Watch a sunrise all the way through
6Go a whole weekend without a screen
7Climb something with a view worth the walk
8Learn 100 words of a new language
9Cook dinner for six people
10Travel somewhere you can't pronounce
11Write a letter and post it
12Say yes to something that scares you a little
13Fix something instead of replacing it
14Spend a whole day walking
15Learn to play one song start to finish
16See a band you've never heard of
17Visit someone you keep meaning to visit
18Give away everything you haven't used in a year
19Run further than you ever have
20Camp somewhere in bad weather
21Take a stranger's advice on a book or film
22Make something with your hands
23Go a month without buying anything you don't need
24Ask someone older about the year they were 25
25Do the thing on last year's list you skipped

Recommended setup

Board size: 5×5 — 25 goals, one for roughly every fortnight
How long to run it: A calendar year, or a season if a whole year feels like too long a leash.
Worth turning on: The monthly summary email. It arrives with the ranking and the most active players, which is exactly the nudge a year-long card needs in the quiet middle months.

What makes it work

Photo and video proof

Every finished goal needs a photo or a video, so by December the card is a year in pictures rather than a list of ticks — and nobody can quietly award themselves a square they didn't do.

A live ranking

The ranking is what stops a shared list going quiet. It's not really about winning; it's that seeing a friend two squares ahead is a better reminder than any calendar alert.

Everyone in one chat

The group chat sits next to the card, so plans for the goals that need more than one person actually get made instead of staying good intentions.

Frequently asked questions

When should I start a bucket list card?

January is the obvious moment, but a card started in September works just as well and has less competition for your attention. What matters more is picking an end date, because an open-ended list is the thing that quietly dies.

Can I play alone?

You can, and the card still works as a record. But the whole mechanism that makes it stick — other people seeing your squares, and you seeing theirs — needs at least two or three others.

What if I don't finish the card?

Almost nobody fills all 25. A row, a column or a diagonal counts as a bingo, so five well-chosen squares is a real result, and unfinished squares make an obvious starting point for next year's card.

Do we all need the same goals?

You share one pool of goals, and each person's card is dealt from it, so you're chasing the same things in a different order. If someone wants a goal that's only theirs, add it as a personal task and it appears on their card alone.

Is my card private?

A team is hidden from team lists unless you deliberately make it publicly discoverable, so a group of friends is only ever visible to people you send the link to.

Can I change the goals later?

You can add tasks at any time. Cards that are already dealt keep their layout, so add early if you want new goals to reach everyone — or reshuffle a card and keep the progress that's already on it.

Start your first card

Free to create, no card needed, and your team joins with one link.

Create a game

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A summer bucket list the whole family can tick off together

Sixteen summer things on one card, a photo for each, and by September a scrapbook nobody had to make.

Team building bingo that runs for a month, not an hour

Give your team a card of 25 challenges, a few weeks to finish them, and a shared album of everything they did.