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