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