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Standup Bingo
Quick game for daily standup meetings
15 prompts on a 3×3 grid, themed Classic. Row, column and diagonal wins.
About this template
Standups are supposed to take 15 minutes. They don't. Standup Bingo is a 3×3 quick-play card that tracks the ways a daily standup goes sideways — the chronic late joiner, the ticket that's been 'in progress' for six days, the person who unmutes three sentences late.
The small grid keeps it fast: one standup is usually enough to fill two or three rows.
When to use it
- Daily or thrice-weekly engineering standups.
- Scrum meetings where the same five problems recur.
- Remote standups where camera etiquette is loose.
Variations
- Blocker bingo — squares are every possible blocker ('waiting on design', 'waiting on QA', 'waiting on legal'). A dark game.
- Carry-over bingo — all squares describe ways people describe work that didn't finish yesterday. Depressing but accurate.
What's on the card
All 15 prompts included on this card:
- · "Nothing blocking me"
- · Someone forgot to unmute
- · Ticket still in progress
- · "Same as yesterday"
- · Standup runs over 15 min
- · Someone missing from call
- · Jira board pulled up
- · "I'll look into it today"
- · Sprint goal mentioned
- · Someone multitasking
- · PR review requested
- · Merge conflict mentioned
- · "Carry over from yesterday"
- · Awkward hand-raise to speak
- · Someone joins 5 min late
Questions people ask
Is 3×3 too small?
For a 15-minute meeting, 3×3 is perfect — you can often fill a row before standup ends. 5×5 makes the game span a full week of standups, which can also be fun.
What's the point?
Morale, mostly. Standup bingo is an acknowledgement that standups are a bit silly. Playing it privately gives you something to do while someone explains a ticket for the fourth day running.