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