You've read about BuzzWord Bingo in the Wall Street Journal and in WIRED Magazine (October/98) ...

BuzzWord Bingo 1.1 now supports ALL the PalmPilots. It has been tested on the original Palm 1000, 5000, Palm Personal/Professional and the Palm III. There are also a couple of graphical glitches that were fixed (when the screen did not redraw completely). There still seem to be some problems on NON-English Operating Systems.

What is it?

BuzzWord Bingo is based on a Dilbert Comic strip. Instead of using normal bingo squares (like B1, I17, G43, etc.) you use BuzzWords. You can play during meetings at work. If your boss (or the person speaking) uses a BuzzWord on your "card", you check it off. The objective is to fill an entire row (just like normal Bingo). When you win -- shout BINGO!

Quotes from the Wall Street Journal

...It may, in fact, be time for some rule changes. The game can easily get out of hand. Four employees, of gofast.net Inc., a St. Paul, Minn., Internet company, have been playing a covert marathon game at staff meetings for nearly three months. The employees rigged their Palm Pilot handheld computers [using BuzzWord Bingo] to churn out new cards whenever they have a meeting. When a player wins, the computer will make a melodic beeping noise.
To date, the beep has yet to sound, indicating a need to reprogram the computers "to create more winning opportunity," says Eric Miller, one of the players, letting fly with a buzzterm of his own.

WSJ front page, June 8, 1998

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More Information

Here is an example of a BuzzWord Bingo Card. This uses a set of Internet BuzzWords.

Just try using this as you watch to your favorite news show. You will be surprised how fast you win.

Get Info - shows the version and author information

Import Memo - will bring you to the window (see the image below).

New Bingo Card - will create a new bingo card using the current words. Use this item when you do not like the words that were chosen.

Select the Memo that you wish import and use as BuzzWords. You can switch categories using the popup menu on the top right.

When importing the memo there are two options for how to select the BuzzWords:

• per line - each line of text is treated as a separate buzzword.
• for each word - every single word in the Memo is used as a BuzzWord.

BuzzWords

Here are a couple of BuzzWord lists you can use for BuzzWord bingo. Just add them to your MemoPad (either cut and paste or import the text file).

• Corporate - strategic, displays, producing, etc. Mac PC
• Mobile telephony - TDMA, WB-CDMA, HLR, etc. (Thanks Pontus Berg) Mac PC
• gofast.net's own list - 128k, deploy, ecosystem, etc. (Thanks Eric) Mac PC

Do you have your own list? Contact us.

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• What you like (hate) about the product.
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Legal Hoopla
Buzzword Bingo is ShareWare. It is not freeware or in the public domain. If you would like to play Buzzword Bingo once the demo period has expired, you will need to pay for the software.

Buzzword Bingo is NOT guaranteed. MobileFreon takes NO RESPONSIBILITY for any damage this program may cause to your system or data due to either defect or misuse. While every effort is made to deliver bug-free software, it is not a perfect world. Please forward all feedback and bug reports using our contact us page.