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