(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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A figure was remade at the last minute
“Due to time constraints…”
“This is outside the scope of the study”
A method only one person in the lab understands
A statistical test is chosen post hoc
Someone mentions lack of funding
A reviewer asks for an unrelated experiment
“We had to optimize this extensively”
Someone references Supplementary Figure 12
“Let’s discuss this offline”
A result is called “unexpected”
A protocol is followed “with minor modifications”
A PhD student explains a senior author’s work
A lab meeting runs over time
A dataset is described as “messy”
Someone mentions working on the weekend
A timeline is described as “ambitious”
“This is preliminary”
An experiment is described as “tricky”
“Reviewer 2” is mentioned
A deadline is extended
“We need more data”
“It worked once”
A meeting could have been an email
Someone apologizes for too many slides
A method is described as “robust”
“This should be straightforward”
A control experiment is added late
“The sample size is limited”
A reviewer requests more references
“Statistically significant” is emphasized
Someone says “It’s well known that…”
A hypothesis is refined after seeing the results
A negative result is called “interesting”
“This opens many new questions”
“We are underpowered”
A study is described as “proof of concept”
A PI says “Interesting…”
A method section references another paper for details
“This will strengthen the paper”
Someone mentions batch effects
Someone mentions impact factor
Someone mentions bioinformatics troubleshooting
A deadline is missed
“We almost gave up on this”
Someone mentions ethics approval delays
“We’ll fix it in revision”
Someone says “In theory…”
Someone mentions resubmission
“We don’t fully understand the mechanism”
A grant is described as “competitive”
Coffee is treated as a research tool
Someone mentions a rejected manuscript
“The results are reproducible… mostly”
A figure is described as “self-explanatory”
Funding agency acronym is used without explanation
