Buzzword bingo
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Buzzword bingo is a game sometimes played in relaxed team meetings. The rules resemble those of bingo, but instead of a matrix of numbers, each player's card is a matrix of buzzwords. When a player hears one of his buzzwords spoken in the meeting, he crosses it off his card. The winner is the player who crosses a full line first.
The first documented buzzword bingo occurred when the then Vice President of the United States Al Gore, known for his liberal use of buzzwords hyping technology, spoke at MIT's 1996 graduation. The graduation class had distributed bingo cards containing buzzwords to the audience.
A similar game is bullshit bingo, which is normally played for satirical or ironic purposes.
External links
- MIT original buzzword bingo hack (http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1996/gore/)
- Bullshit Bingo! (http://www.perkigoth.com/home/kermit/stuff/bullshitbingo/)
- Bullshit Bingo (German buzzword bingo) (http://bullshit.blubbmon.de/)
- Wank word bingo (http://www.potfire.com.au/entertain/wwbingo.htm)de:Bullshit-Bingo