(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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The “hot site” was actually cold
Deployment broke prod
Custom script failed with no logs
Applied the wrong config to prod
Found the backup in the wrong format
Practiced failover
Oncall during a holiday
Power came back... and then went out again
Ran a failover, forgot the firewall rules
Team used five different definitions of “RTO”
Ran a DR stimulation game
Deployed during a major incident
Backup tape was corrupted
Wrote a DR plan no one read
Forgot to test backup
Dependency failed silently
Searched Teams/WhatsApp/Slack for the DR steps
Restored successfully—into prod by mistake
Called vendor support—hit voicemail
Recovery took >1 day
Misread a severity alert
Couldn’t reach the primary contact
Got locked out mid-recovery
Found passwords in a sticky note
Got called mid-flight (tried to troubleshoot over airplane Wi-Fi)
DR test failed
Didn’t have a backup
Fix required physical access (no one had keys)
Backup ran... but didn’t include the database
Created a backup strategy
Ran chaos test in prod
Cloud region down
Backup password was changed but not shared
Spent 2 hours debugging—then found it was a typo
Alert false positive
Restored from backup
Lost prod data (even a bit)
Alert fatigue
Got called during dinner
Ignored an alert that was real this time
Conflicting recovery instructions
Realized you were restoring the wrong day’s backup
External service went down
No runbook available
Network outage
Hit restore, regretted immediately
Did a post-mortem
Someone unplugged the “do not touch” server
Unreachable DNS
Started a DR drill—no one showed up
Tested DR... in prod by accident
Confused dev and prod environments
Vendor said, “That’s not covered”
Discovered the backup drive was full
DB migration failed
Logged incident... to the wrong team
DR plan included a retired employee
Woke up midnight to standby call
Discovered half the infra was never documented
Logged into the wrong cloud account
Saw a mysterious cron job labeled “do not delete”
System alert missed because alert rule was too specific
Accidentally deleted data
“It worked in dev”
DR test passed... because no one actually tested anything
