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