A control isadded afterseeing theresultsAdeadlinequietlypasses“I swearthisworkedlast week”Someonespends fiveminutes lookingfor the rightcable/adaptorA sentencestarts with“In thiscontext…”A figurelegend islonger thanthe figureSomeonesays “It’sconceptuallysimple”Someone says“This isinterdisciplinary”“Let’s addit to futurework”You forgotyourposter.Someonesays “Justone moreexperiment”A citationspiralbeginsA labnotebookentry startswith “Ithink…”Areferencefrom 1973is crucialA methodonly onepersonunderstandsA PhD studentwonders whya PhDsounded likea good ideaSomeoneworks on it“over theweekend”A PI says“Interesting…”(no follow-up)A figure isremade fiveminutesbeforesubmission“It’sprobablya batcheffect”A theoryworksbeautifully—experimentdoes notSomeonesays “Thisshould beeasy” (it wasnot)SomeonespillssomethingexpensiveA freezeralarmgoes off“Let’sjust re-run it”A Nobellaureate ismentionedcasuallySomeonementionsa rejectedpaperA title ischangedat the lastminute“We’ll fixit inrevision”SomeoneaccidentallydeletessomethingimportantA script runsfor hours…thencrashes“At least it’sreproduciblethis time”“Reviewer2 strikesagain”A meetingcoulddefinitelyhave beenan emailSomeoneGooglestheir ownerrormessage“We don’treallyknowwhy”“Thisopensmany newquestions”A wet labprotocolsays “mixgently”A gellooksalmostperfectA result iscalled“promising”Someonereuses thesame slidefrom lastyear“Thesamplesize is…limited”“Let’s check thesupplementary”Someonesays “Intheory, thisshould work”A documentcrashesright beforesavingA sampledisappearsmysteriouslyAhumanitiesPhD says“It depends”“We’llexplain itin thediscussion”A reviewerasks for atotally newmethod“It workedyesterday”Code workson onecomputeronlySomeonementionsethicsapprovaldelaysA PhDstudentexplains thePI’s ownprojectA paper iscited withoutbeing fullyreadA footnotebecomesessentialSomeonesays “I’llclean thedata later”“The dataare…moodytoday”Someonementionsimpostersyndrome(indirectly)Coffee istreated asan essentialreagentAnexperimentfails for noclear reasonA control isadded afterseeing theresultsAdeadlinequietlypasses“I swearthisworkedlast week”Someonespends fiveminutes lookingfor the rightcable/adaptorA sentencestarts with“In thiscontext…”A figurelegend islonger thanthe figureSomeonesays “It’sconceptuallysimple”Someone says“This isinterdisciplinary”“Let’s addit to futurework”You forgotyourposter.Someonesays “Justone moreexperiment”A citationspiralbeginsA labnotebookentry startswith “Ithink…”Areferencefrom 1973is crucialA methodonly onepersonunderstandsA PhD studentwonders whya PhDsounded likea good ideaSomeoneworks on it“over theweekend”A PI says“Interesting…”(no follow-up)A figure isremade fiveminutesbeforesubmission“It’sprobablya batcheffect”A theoryworksbeautifully—experimentdoes notSomeonesays “Thisshould beeasy” (it wasnot)SomeonespillssomethingexpensiveA freezeralarmgoes off“Let’sjust re-run it”A Nobellaureate ismentionedcasuallySomeonementionsa rejectedpaperA title ischangedat the lastminute“We’ll fixit inrevision”SomeoneaccidentallydeletessomethingimportantA script runsfor hours…thencrashes“At least it’sreproduciblethis time”“Reviewer2 strikesagain”A meetingcoulddefinitelyhave beenan emailSomeoneGooglestheir ownerrormessage“We don’treallyknowwhy”“Thisopensmany newquestions”A wet labprotocolsays “mixgently”A gellooksalmostperfectA result iscalled“promising”Someonereuses thesame slidefrom lastyear“Thesamplesize is…limited”“Let’s check thesupplementary”Someonesays “Intheory, thisshould work”A documentcrashesright beforesavingA sampledisappearsmysteriouslyAhumanitiesPhD says“It depends”“We’llexplain itin thediscussion”A reviewerasks for atotally newmethod“It workedyesterday”Code workson onecomputeronlySomeonementionsethicsapprovaldelaysA PhDstudentexplains thePI’s ownprojectA paper iscited withoutbeing fullyreadA footnotebecomesessentialSomeonesays “I’llclean thedata later”“The dataare…moodytoday”Someonementionsimpostersyndrome(indirectly)Coffee istreated asan essentialreagentAnexperimentfails for noclear reason

Nobel Dinner - Call List

(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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  1. A control is added after seeing the results
  2. A deadline quietly passes
  3. “I swear this worked last week”
  4. Someone spends five minutes looking for the right cable/adaptor
  5. A sentence starts with “In this context…”
  6. A figure legend is longer than the figure
  7. Someone says “It’s conceptually simple”
  8. Someone says “This is interdisciplinary”
  9. “Let’s add it to future work”
  10. You forgot your poster.
  11. Someone says “Just one more experiment”
  12. A citation spiral begins
  13. A lab notebook entry starts with “I think…”
  14. A reference from 1973 is crucial
  15. A method only one person understands
  16. A PhD student wonders why a PhD sounded like a good idea
  17. Someone works on it “over the weekend”
  18. A PI says “Interesting…” (no follow-up)
  19. A figure is remade five minutes before submission
  20. “It’s probably a batch effect”
  21. A theory works beautifully—experiment does not
  22. Someone says “This should be easy” (it was not)
  23. Someone spills something expensive
  24. A freezer alarm goes off
  25. “Let’s just re-run it”
  26. A Nobel laureate is mentioned casually
  27. Someone mentions a rejected paper
  28. A title is changed at the last minute
  29. “We’ll fix it in revision”
  30. Someone accidentally deletes something important
  31. A script runs for hours… then crashes
  32. “At least it’s reproducible this time”
  33. “Reviewer 2 strikes again”
  34. A meeting could definitely have been an email
  35. Someone Googles their own error message
  36. “We don’t really know why”
  37. “This opens many new questions”
  38. A wet lab protocol says “mix gently”
  39. A gel looks almost perfect
  40. A result is called “promising”
  41. Someone reuses the same slide from last year
  42. “The sample size is… limited”
  43. “Let’s check the supplementary”
  44. Someone says “In theory, this should work”
  45. A document crashes right before saving
  46. A sample disappears mysteriously
  47. A humanities PhD says “It depends”
  48. “We’ll explain it in the discussion”
  49. A reviewer asks for a totally new method
  50. “It worked yesterday”
  51. Code works on one computer only
  52. Someone mentions ethics approval delays
  53. A PhD student explains the PI’s own project
  54. A paper is cited without being fully read
  55. A footnote becomes essential
  56. Someone says “I’ll clean the data later”
  57. “The data are… moody today”
  58. Someone mentions imposter syndrome (indirectly)
  59. Coffee is treated as an essential reagent
  60. An experiment fails for no clear reason