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