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About: This bingo card captures the humorous chaos and all-too-familiar moments of an academic conference or research seminar. Perfect for grad students, faculty, or anyone familiar with the quirks of scholarly events, it pokes fun at technical mishaps, memorable personalities, and classic meeting interruptions. Expect lots of laughs as attendees spot these scenarios in real life.
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Printed Players: Print PDF bingo cards and physically write on the cards.
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Start by getting the Symposium Bingo PDF by clicking on the "Print" button above.
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Cut the bingo cards at the cut marks if there are greater than 1 bingo cards per page.
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The caller opens the game by randomly drawing an item from the call list and calling out it to all players.
The players check their cards to see if they have the called word. If they do, they mark that word.
The first player to complete a horizontal, vertical, or a diagonal line of marked items yells "Bingo!" and wins the game.
The caller validates that the items marked form a proper line as per the Bingo card and call list.
You can play for multiple patterns or a full card blackout for a longer game.
This Symposium Bingo Cards Game contains following Words or Phrases: Technical Difficulties, The previous slide burned on the current slide, More than 5 profs are missing the whole talk, "Try to stay on schedule", EL: "We're very proud of everyone and their research", EL: Misses the first talk after giving intro, ZS: Interrupts talk with a non-clarification question, ZS: "Interesting", ZS: Coughs in the middle of his question, ZS: Twirls his hair in the middle of his question, ZS: Eats during talk, despite the lunch break, ZS: Misses his own student's talk, ZS: Blurts out his own joke during a talk, ZS: Can hear him running in the hallway, AG: Interrupts talk with a non-clarification question, AG: Follow-up question on his own question, AG: "I have two questions", JD: "Stupid / dumb question", CT: Interrupts talk without raising hand, CT: Explains your research to you, fdfd, gfgf, erere, efgjdfgj, dfdmfd, fmdkfmdk, fdjkfndk, fndkfnd, 3er, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5fd, fd.
This Symposium Bingo Cards Game contains following Words or Phrases: Technical Difficulties, The previous slide burned on the current slide, More than 5 profs are missing the whole talk, "Try to stay on schedule", EL: "We're very proud of everyone and their research", EL: Misses the first talk after giving intro, ZS: Interrupts talk with a non-clarification question, ZS: "Interesting", ZS: Coughs in the middle of his question, ZS: Twirls his hair in the middle of his question, ZS: Eats during talk, despite the lunch break, ZS: Misses his own student's talk, ZS: Blurts out his own joke during a talk, ZS: Can hear him running in the hallway, AG: Interrupts talk with a non-clarification question, AG: Follow-up question on his own question, AG: "I have two questions", JD: "Stupid / dumb question", CT: Interrupts talk without raising hand, CT: Explains your research to you, fdfd, gfgf, erere, efgjdfgj, dfdmfd, fmdkfmdk, fdjkfndk, fndkfnd, 3er, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5fd, fd.