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