Buzzword-Bingo

Buzzword Bingo, called in the later dissemination and Bullshit Bingo and Bingo meeting, is a humorous version of the bingo game, which satirizes the often meaningless use many keywords in lectures, presentations and meetings.

Game

Instead of bingo cards with numbers cards with buzzwords (English buzzwords ) are used. Unlike the original bingo, in which the to be painted numbers are drawn from a lottery wheel, words are deleted when they are called. In a completely filled row, column or diagonal, the player should get up the rules after and shout " Bingo " or to highlight the lack of content of the phrases, " bullshit ". With the game and this exclamation at the same time the excessive use of empty Tags will often criticized.

History

The game was born in 1993 at Silicon Graphics in Mountain View. There, the scientists Tom Davis came up with the idea for the game, as he took part in a presentation in which many Tags have been used. He then wrote in C a program that generated bingo cards that were filled with the appropriate keywords, this he then distributed to his staff and called his idea Buzzword Bingo. His colleague Chris Pirazzi developed a little later then a web version of the program, which was open to the public and so led to a further spread of the game. As Scott Adams took up the idea in 1994 in one of his Dilbert cartoons, the game became known to a wider audience and soon became popular.

More media attention gained the game in 1996, when then- Vice President Al Gore, which a penchant for keywords was said a speech in front of a Graduation year at MIT held and the students distributed tickets for an Al Gore Buzzword Bingo. In 1998, the game was finally even described in a cover story in the Wall Street Journal.

In the following years, the game spread then also under the name of Bullshit Bingo on the Internet, especially through web pages and chain e -mails. IBM took advantage of Buzzword Bingo 2007 for a TV advertising campaign.