namebingo

Make "Name Bingo" cards

Synopsis

This is an icebreaker game to play on the first day of class. See About.com for a reference.

History

Derek Bruff wrote a ColdFusion script to create bingo pages as HTML in 2006. I (MPL) used it as an excuse to learn python. I have been using it since 2007, and finally uploaded to github in 2013.

Usage

Read events XML file as argument. If the -n or --number option is not specified, writes one bingo card as HTML to stdout. If -n NUMBER or --number=NUMBER is specified, writes NUMBER cards to separate HTML files.

To easily print these cards, they can be converted to PDF and concatenated. The wkdpdf command-line utility can be used for the form and pdftk for the latter:

$ for file in `ls card*.html`; do
  /path/to/wkpdf --source=$file --output=`basename $file .html`.pdf
done
$ /path/to/pdftk card*.pdf cat output allcards.pdf

TODO

• Template HTML file
• customize file name format