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