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