Snarky Platypus and I have created this bingo card for 2026 listing 25 distinctly possible things. We also list the suggestions which didn’t make the Final Cut.
These are our 25 possibilities, arranged randomly, and we discuss them in a podcast.
| The Islamic Republic of Iran collapses | King Charles III dies | Significant upswing in GenZ alcohol consumption | OpenAI collapses | New metro line officially announced for Sydney |
| US mid-term elections just work properly | Thai elections: People’s Party (formerly Move Forward, formerly Future Forward) wins and stays | Teens drive the revival of long-form content, with 30–60 minute videos outperforming short clips in certain niches | McDonalds or Hungry Jacks introduces a rendang burger | Home and Away cancelled |
| Atlantic Conveyor ocean current collapses | BLACKPINK announces indefinite hiatus | FREE SQUARE: Elon Musk embarrasses himself publicly | Sussan Ley lasts as Liberal leader for all of 2026 | Commonwealth Games abandoned |
| Harry and Meghan get divorced | WNBA season 2026 does not go ahead | NSW Premier Chris Minns gets boned | SpaceX IPO flops | A Chinese electric vehicle becomes the top-seller in Australia |
| Mercury-sized planet or greater is discovered in the Kuiper Belt or further out in the solar system | PRC and Japanese ships exchange live fire | A PRC/Taiwan pop star hits the Top 10 in the US | The Spice Girls release a new album | Putin tosses a nuke |
Here’s what didn’t make the cut, in no particular order or grammar.
- Another Australian state starts a treaty process with First Nations people
- Canberra dissolves the Northern Territory government and takes back power
- Federal Coalition splits again
- A fourth large supermarket operator enters the Australian market
- National/ACT coalition loses government in 2026 NZ federal election
- An El Niño occurs
- Easily reproducible HIV cure discovered
- Rendang gets UNESCO listed as intangible cultural heritage
- Medicare rebates change
- PRC company buys major US media brand
- Baby bonus reintroduced
- Australia snap election
- Elder Scrolls 6 released
- Platypuses in Royal National Park produce 3 puggles in one breeding season
- Australia announces a migration deal with another South Pacific nation similar to Tuvalu
- Meanjin successor emerges.
- A new Star Wars movie trilogy announced.
You might also want to see our cards for 2024 and 2025, and click through from there to listen to our podcast discussions.
[Photo: Background image by Rudonni via Pixabay. Foreground bingo card originally by Milton Bradley Company, photo by Abby Hendrickson under under a CC-BY 2.0 Generic license. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.]
