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Adding Animated GIFs to Bingo Squares

Learn how to add animated GIFs, stickers, and emojis to bingo squares.

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Written by Ross Newton
Updated over 7 months ago

You can add Animated GIFs from Giphy's Animated library to add dimension to your bingo games. With just a few clicks, you can add:

  • A hilarious meme

  • A famous scene from a movie

  • An animated celebrity or political figure

  • Cartoons from famous movies (e.g. Elsa from Frozen)

To add a GIF, first, navigate to the Experience Dashboard. Next, go to the blue Bingo Setup tab and hover your mouse over the square you want to add a GIF.

Bingo Setup tab on the Experience Dashboard

Bingo Setup tab on the Experience Dashboard

Once you hover over the selected square, click on the button with a video camera icon.

The Add Image icon on a bingo square

The Add Image icon on a bingo square

Choosing a GIF

Once you click on Add Image, a blue pop-up box with Giphy's search bar and examples of animated GIFs will display. You can choose from the trending GIFs or search for a particular one. For this example, we'll search for a "Disney princess" GIF to add to our bingo square.

Searching "Disney princess" on the Giphy database

Searching "Disney princess" on the Giphy database

Once you've clicked on your desired GIF, it will automatically be added to the bingo square.

Viewing the Animated GIF on the Presentation View & Participant View

If you have the Display Square's Text or Image setting enabled for your Bingo Game, the animated GIF image will always show as the called square on the Presentation View when it is called.

The Presentation View displays the added GIF.

The Presentation View displays the added GIF.

If your Bingo Game has the Display Square's Hint Only or Hide Called Squares setting enabled, the GIF will not display on the Presentation View. Instead, it will only display on your participants' bingo cards on the Participant View.

If your participant has the square on their Bingo Card on the Participant View of your Bingo Game, your participants will see the animated GIF as a square on their devices.

The Participant View displays the added GIF

The Participant View displays the added GIF.
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Removing a GIF from a Bingo Square

If you'd like to change the animated GIF or no longer want to have a GIF on a square, remove it by clicking on the red Remove Question Media (trash) button displayed on the square upon hovering your mouse over it.

Remove (trash) button on the bingo square

Remove (trash) button on the bingo square

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