Buzzword Bingo

Buzzword bingo is a game sometimes played in relaxed team meetings. The rules resemble those of bingo and housie, but instead of a matrix of numbers, each player's card is a matrix of buzzwords. When players hear any of their buzzwords spoken in the meeting, they cross it off their cards.

The winner is the player who crosses a full line first and exclaims, "Bingo!" Part of the game, unlike in regular bingo, is having sufficient courage to yell out "Bingo!" in the middle of the meeting, especially as the winning buzzwords are likely to have been uttered by "the boss".

One documented buzzword bingo occurred when Al Gore, then the Vice President of the United States known for his liberal use of buzzwords hyping technology, spoke at MIT's 1996 graduation. Hackers had distributed bingo cards containing buzzwords to the graduating class.

Bullshit bingo is a satirical version of Buzzword Bingo, usually played in a clandestine manner by office workers frustrated by the verbiage of their superiors.