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