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