A break reminder you will not want to dismiss
The trouble with a break reminder is that the tenth one looks exactly like the first, so you click it away without getting up. Break Bingo gives each break a reason to count. Your breaks live on a 5 by 5 bingo card, and every reminder is a call, the way a caller reads a ball at a bingo hall: I-22: Roll your neck slowly.
At each bell a single square glows and Windows shows a notification naming the move; its buttons are Done, dab it and Skip. Do the move, dab the square, and it is marked on your card. Complete five in a row, down a column or along a diagonal and the line turns gold.
Skipping costs nothing. A square you skip or miss simply stays open, and the next call picks from the squares you have not dabbed yet.
Desk stretches and quick moves on the card
Each week's card holds 24 moves drawn from a pool of 44, around a free center square. Every square carries a short label and a single sentence explaining it, so you never have to look anything up. A sample of what turns up:
- Body: Neck roll, Shoulders, Wrists, Chin tuck, Wall angel, Side bend, Calf raise, Squats, Lunges, Plank.
- Eyes: Look far, which asks you to find something 20 feet away and hold it for 20 seconds; Blink 10×; Eye palm; Near, far.
- Away from the desk: Walk 2 min, Stairs, Fresh air, Daylight, Refill, Make tea.
- Reset: 4 breaths, Posture, Jaw, Hum, Gratitude, Tidy desk.
How often to take a break, and how to change it
The default is a call every 30 minutes. Under Call a break every in Settings you can choose 15, 20, 30 or 45 minutes, or 1, 1.5, 2 or 3 hours. Pick the Subtle mallet, Large bell or Long bell, set its Volume, and use Hear the bell to try it.
The bingo ball on the card doubles as the timer, counting down to the next call. Click it when you want a break right now and a square is called immediately, with the next reminder a full interval after that. Pause reminders stops calls entirely, until you resume, either on the card or in the notification area menu.
Weekly cards, bingos and themes
A new card arrives every Monday. The headline keeps score as you go, showing how many squares stand between you and a bingo, and the strip under the card counts your bingos this month and the squares dabbed this week.
Fill the entire card before Monday for a Blackout, and the next card theme unlocks. You start with Paper; Mint, Dusk and Sunset follow, and you can switch among the ones you have earned under Card theme.
Wellness bingo for a whole team
Every copy of the app builds the same card for a given week, with the same moves on the same squares and the same B-1 to O-75 numbers. That makes it an easy office wellness bingo: everyone plays their own card on their own schedule, and on Friday you can compare who got a line, or who managed a Blackout.
