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