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