“Beyond the scope of this work” Speaker explains something obvious Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline Skips over slides to save time Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.) “To piggyback off _____’s question/comment…” Cell phone goes off Technology malfunction Rambling/long introduction of speaker “That’s an interesting question” Sleeping professor/student Speaker sucks up to host professor Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks Blatant typo Doesn’t start on time/goes over time You have no idea what’s going on Repeated use of “um…” Too much time thanking people Results conveniently show improvement Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar Speaker mispronounces something Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide Undefined abbreviation Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc. Boring slides/no color Speaker apologizes to audience Work ties in to Cancer/CVD/War/COVID- 19 Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it Low resolution image(s) Speaker forgets to thank their research team “Beyond the scope of this work” Speaker explains something obvious Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline Skips over slides to save time Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.) “To piggyback off _____’s question/comment…” Cell phone goes off Technology malfunction Rambling/long introduction of speaker “That’s an interesting question” Sleeping professor/student Speaker sucks up to host professor Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks Blatant typo Doesn’t start on time/goes over time You have no idea what’s going on Repeated use of “um…” Too much time thanking people Results conveniently show improvement Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar Speaker mispronounces something Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide Undefined abbreviation Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc. Boring slides/no color Speaker apologizes to audience Work ties in to Cancer/CVD/War/COVID- 19 Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it Low resolution image(s) Speaker forgets to thank their research team
(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
“Beyond the scope of this work”
Speaker explains something obvious
Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline
Skips over slides to save time
Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide
Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.)
“To piggyback off _____’s question/comment…”
Cell phone goes off
Technology malfunction
Rambling/long introduction of speaker
“That’s an interesting question”
Sleeping professor/student
Speaker sucks up to host professor
Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks
Blatant typo
Doesn’t start on time/goes over time
You have no idea what’s going on
Repeated use of “um…”
Too much time thanking people
Results conveniently show improvement
Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar
Speaker mispronounces something
Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide
Undefined abbreviation
Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment
Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc.
Boring slides/no color
Speaker apologizes to audience
Work ties in to Cancer/CVD/War/COVID-19
Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar
Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it
Low resolution image(s)
Speaker forgets to thank their research team