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