Fill-in-the-Blank Stories: Play, Print & Make Your Own

What is a fill-in-the-blank story?

A fill-in-the-blank story is a word game. You are asked for a series of words (a noun here, a silly verb there), and once every blank is filled, those words drop into a hidden story to create something gloriously ridiculous. It is a classic party and classroom game that teaches parts of speech while getting big laughs. If you have played Mad Libs®, you already know how it works: these are stories in that style, written by us.

This one has 213 original stories for kids, holidays, parties, and grown-ups, a 🎲 word suggester that picks fitting, funny words (nouns straight from our 58,000-word dictionary), printable worksheets, and a story maker to write and share your own.

How to play

1. Pick a story — filter by Kids, Holidays, Party, or Adults (clean).
2. Fill in each blank with the kind of word it asks for — without reading the story.
3. Stuck? Tap 🎲 next to a blank for a random word that fits, or Fill all randomly.
4. Tap Reveal my story, read it out loud, and copy it to share. Want a laugh in one tap? Use Instant random story.

All 213 stories

Every story is original and clean. Pick one in the tool above, or tap 🎲 Random story. Here is the full list, grouped by occasion:

Printable fill-in-the-blank stories

Choose a story and tap 🖨️ Print worksheet. You get a clean page with a numbered list of blanks to fill in on paper, followed by the story with numbered gaps — perfect for classrooms, road trips, waiting rooms, and party tables. Print a stack and let everyone read theirs aloud.

Make your own fill-in-the-blank story

Tap ✍️ Make your own, write any story, and put each blank in square brackets: [noun], [adjective], [verb past tense], [animal], [name] — or anything else, like [favorite snack]. Then play it, or tap Share this story to copy a link. The whole story travels inside the link, so friends can play your story without you uploading anything. Great for birthday cards, wedding speeches, team events, and lesson plans.

A quick parts-of-speech refresher

• Noun — a person, place, or thing: dog, city, banana. Plural noun — more than one: dogs, cities, bananas.
• Verb — an action: jump, sing. Past tense — it already happened: jumped, sang. Ending in -ing — jumping, singing.
• Adjective — describes a noun: sparkly, enormous, grumpy.
• Adverb — describes how something is done, often ending in -ly: quickly, silently.
• Exclamation — something you shout: Yikes! Hooray! Holy guacamole!

That makes these stories a fun grammar activity for classrooms and English learners: students practice word classes and irregular past tenses without noticing they’re doing grammar. The 🎲 suggester always gives correct forms — “plural noun” gets a real plural, and “verb past tense” handles irregular verbs like swim → swam.

Stories for adults, weddings, and holidays

Grown-ups get dozens of stories about office life, first apartments, jury duty, job interviews, and dinner parties; wedding fans get vows, a maid-of-honor speech, a bridal shower, and a bachelorette party; and the holiday collection covers Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Easter, New Year, and summer. Every story is clean enough to read aloud at the table — perfect for parties, showers, and family gatherings.

Mad Libs® is a registered trademark of Penguin Random House LLC. Fill-in-the-Blank Stories and all of its stories are made by Linguaholic and are not affiliated with or endorsed by the trademark owner.

Related tools

For more wordplay, make a puzzle with the Word Search Maker, get drawing-game and charades words from the Random Word Generator, or play a party game from Linguaholic Games. Everything runs in your browser — free, with no sign-up, and nothing you type is uploaded or stored.