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