(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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Got locked out mid-recovery
Vendor said, “That’s not covered”
Confused dev and prod environments
Power came back... and then went out again
Found critical system on a personal laptop
Ran a failover, forgot the firewall rules
Oncall during a holiday
Backup tape was corrupted
Hit restore, regretted immediately
Logged incident... to the wrong team
Fix required physical access (no one had keys)
DB migration failed
Woke up midnight to standby call
Unreachable DNS
The “hot site” was actually cold
Conflicting recovery instructions
Didn’t have a backup
External service went down
“It worked in dev”
Misread a severity alert
Logged into the wrong cloud account
DR plan included a retired employee
No runbook available
Practiced failover
Did a post-mortem
DR test failed
Called vendor support—hit voicemail
Realized you were restoring the wrong day’s backup
Forgot to test backup
Backup ran... but didn’t include the database
Restored successfully—into prod by mistake
Started a DR drill—no one showed up
Custom script failed with no logs
Discovered half the infra was never documented
Deployed during a major incident
Applied the wrong config to prod
Saw a mysterious cron job labeled “do not delete”
Accidentally deleted data
Someone unplugged the “do not touch” server
Lost prod data (even a bit)
Alert fatigue
Dependency failed silently
DR test passed... because no one actually tested anything
Discovered the backup drive was full
Created a backup strategy
Searched Teams/WhatsApp/Slack for the DR steps
Found the backup in the wrong format
Tested DR... in prod by accident
Cloud region down
Realized the DR test broke something else
Alert false positive
Found passwords in a sticky note
Backup password was changed but not shared
Deployment broke prod
Couldn’t reach the primary contact
Team used five different definitions of “RTO”
Wrote a DR plan no one read
Network outage
Recovery took >1 day
Ran chaos test in prod
System alert missed because alert rule was too specific
Ignored an alert that was real this time
Restored from backup
Got called mid-flight (tried to troubleshoot over airplane Wi-Fi)
