(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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DB migration failed
Created a backup strategy
Someone unplugged the “do not touch” server
No runbook available
Ran chaos test in prod
Dependency failed silently
Got called mid-flight (tried to troubleshoot over airplane Wi-Fi)
Network outage
Alert fatigue
Cloud region down
Started a DR drill—no one showed up
Practiced failover
DR test failed
Tested DR... in prod by accident
The “hot site” was actually cold
Custom script failed with no logs
System alert missed because alert rule was too specific
Lost prod data (even a bit)
Fix required physical access (no one had keys)
Did a post-mortem
Hit restore, regretted immediately
Couldn’t reach the primary contact
Didn’t have a backup
External service went down
Logged incident... to the wrong team
Realized the DR test broke something else
Found passwords in a sticky note
Saw a mysterious cron job labeled “do not delete”
Team used five different definitions of “RTO”
Conflicting recovery instructions
Unreachable DNS
Restored from backup
Realized you were restoring the wrong day’s backup
DR plan included a retired employee
Got called during dinner
Got locked out mid-recovery
Backup ran... but didn’t include the database
Spent 2 hours debugging—then found it was a typo
Deployment broke prod
Found the backup in the wrong format
Searched Teams/WhatsApp/Slack for the DR steps
Backup password was changed but not shared
“It worked in dev”
DR test passed... because no one actually tested anything
