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