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