(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.
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Manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid argument.
Appeal to Emotion
If a conclusion supports your existing beliefs, you’ll rationalize anything that supports it.
Belief Bias
Saying that a compromise, or middle point, between two extremes is the truth.
Middle Ground
Introduces an unrelated topic to distract from the main argument.
Red Herring
Assumes causation because one event follows another.
Post Hoc
You remember the past as better
than it was, and expect the
future to be worse than
evidence suggests it will be.
Declinism
Assuming that what’s true about one part of something has to be applied to all, or other, parts of it.
Composition/ Division
You let the social dynamics of a group situation override the best outcomes.
groupthink
Judging something good or bad on the basis of where it comes from, or from whom it comes.
Genetic
Using personal experience or
an isolated example instead of
a valid argument, especially
to dismiss statistics.
Anecdotal
Appealing to popularity or the fact that many people do something as an attempted form of validation.
Bandwagon
Relies on an authority’s opinion instead of evidence.
Appeal To Authority
You overestimate the likelihood
of negative outcomes.
Pessimism Bias
How much you like someone, or how attractive they are, influences your other judgments of them.
Halo Effect
Attacks the person instead of the argument.
Ad Hominem
Argues that one step will inevitably lead to extreme outcomes.
Slippery Slope
The more you know, the less
confident you’re likely to be.
Dunning-Kruger Effect
Dismisses an argument by accusing the speaker of hypocrisy.
Tu Quoque
Presents only two options, ignoring other possibilities.
False Dichotomy
Irrationally clinging to ideas that have already cost you something.
Sunk Cost
Favouring things that confirm
your existing beliefs.
Confirmation Bias
You overestimate the likelihood
of positive outcomes.
Optimism Bias
The first thing you judge
influences your judgment of
all that follows.
Anchoring
Misrepresents the original argument to make it easier to attack.
Straw Man
A circular argument in which the conclusion is included in the premise.
Begging the question
When your core beliefs are challenged, it can cause you to believe even more strongly.
Backfire Effect
You believe your failures are due
to external factors, yet you’re
personally responsible for
your successes.
Self-serving Bias
Once you understand
something you presume it to be obvious to everyone.
Curse of Knowledge
