Speaker sucks up to host professor “Beyond the scope of this work” Speaker explains something obvious “To piggyback off _____’s question/comment…” Technology malfunction Rambling/long introduction of speaker Repeated use of “um…” Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it Doesn’t start on time/goes over time Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc. Cell phone goes off Skips over slides to save time Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.) Speaker apologizes to audience Too much time thanking people You have no idea what’s going on Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar Low resolution image(s) Blatant typo Work ties in to Cancer/CVD/War/COVID- 19 Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline Undefined abbreviation Sleeping professor/student Speaker mispronounces something Boring slides/no color Results conveniently show improvement Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide “That’s an interesting question” Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks Speaker forgets to thank their research team Speaker sucks up to host professor “Beyond the scope of this work” Speaker explains something obvious “To piggyback off _____’s question/comment…” Technology malfunction Rambling/long introduction of speaker Repeated use of “um…” Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it Doesn’t start on time/goes over time Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc. Cell phone goes off Skips over slides to save time Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.) Speaker apologizes to audience Too much time thanking people You have no idea what’s going on Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar Low resolution image(s) Blatant typo Work ties in to Cancer/CVD/War/COVID- 19 Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline Undefined abbreviation Sleeping professor/student Speaker mispronounces something Boring slides/no color Results conveniently show improvement Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide “That’s an interesting question” Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks 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.
Speaker sucks up to host professor
“Beyond the scope of this work”
Speaker explains something obvious
“To piggyback off _____’s question/comment…”
Technology malfunction
Rambling/long introduction of speaker
Repeated use of “um…”
Someone has a "question" that's actually a comment
Speaker flips forward past a slide too fast for you to read it
Doesn’t start on time/goes over time
Excessive use of “um” “uh” etc.
Cell phone goes off
Skips over slides to save time
Incomprehensible graphic (chart, graph, diagram, etc.)
Speaker apologizes to audience
Too much time thanking people
You have no idea what’s going on
Speaker spends several minutes talking to the title slide
Speaker tells an “amusing story” that is not related to the subject of the seminar
Low resolution image(s)
Blatant typo
Work ties in to Cancer/CVD/War/COVID-19
Someone takes more snacks than they could ever eat at seminar
Speaker wastes 5 minutes explaining outline
Undefined abbreviation
Sleeping professor/student
Speaker mispronounces something
Boring slides/no color
Results conveniently show improvement
Speaker is surprised by what appears on the next slide
“That’s an interesting question”
Someone creates excessive noise with their snacks
Speaker forgets to thank their research team