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