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