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