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