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