(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 PhD student wonders why a PhD sounded like a good idea
Someone reuses the same slide from last year
“It worked yesterday”
“This opens many new questions”
A PI says “Interesting…” (no follow-up)
A document crashes right before saving
A lab notebook entry starts with “I think…”
A control is added after seeing the results
Someone says “It’s conceptually simple”
“It’s probably a batch effect”
Someone says “Just one more experiment”
Someone says “This should be easy” (it was not)
A figure legend is longer than the figure
“At least it’s reproducible this time”
“Let’s check the supplementary”
A footnote becomes essential
Someone says “This is interdisciplinary”
A sample disappears mysteriously
A PhD student explains the PI’s own project
Someone mentions imposter syndrome (indirectly)
Coffee is treated as an essential reagent
A meeting could definitely have been an email
Someone works on it “over the weekend”
“Reviewer 2 strikes again”
“We’ll fix it in revision”
A reference from 1973 is crucial
A method only one person understands
A humanities PhD says “It depends”
Code works on one computer only
Someone accidentally deletes something important
A title is changed at the last minute
Someone Googles their own error message
A citation spiral begins
A reviewer asks for a totally new method
A wet lab protocol says “mix gently”
Someone spills something expensive
A Nobel laureate is mentioned casually
A result is called “promising”
A sentence starts with “In this context…”
Someone says “In theory, this should work”
A freezer alarm goes off
A figure is remade five minutes before submission
Someone mentions a rejected paper
“The data are… moody today”
“We don’t really know why”
“We’ll explain it in the discussion”
An experiment fails for no clear reason
Someone mentions ethics approval delays
A theory works beautifully—experiment does not
Someone says “I’ll clean the data later”
“The sample size is… limited”
You forgot your poster.
“I swear this worked last week”
A paper is cited without being fully read
“Let’s add it to future work”
Someone spends five minutes looking for the right cable/adaptor
