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