Bullshit Bingo

Brought to you by MEBIS and Lipstick Records Music

(the idea comes from an anonymous manager via a friend etc...)

Are you often bored by conferences and managment or board meetings - or long discussions or phone conferences with consultants, Internet salespeople or other nerds etc.. Do you sometimes fall asleep in such situations?

Here is your chance to change all this: Bullshit Bingo

How to play it:

1. Print out this page and copy it for yourself and the other players
2. During a conference, meeting etc. check the appropriate box when you here the word listed there
3. When you have completed a row (diagonal, vertical or horixontal) of 5 boxes, stand up and scream "Bullshit"

Synergy	Win-Win Situation	communicate	shareholder value	risk-reward ratio
creative	innovative	level playing field	benchmark	result-oriented
advertising driven	revolutionary	the next Microsoft	customer-focused	targeted
total quality	hits (in websites)	paradigm change	new trend in ..	B-to-B
web-centric	mutually rewarding	targeted marketing	new economy	networked

After completing it, screaming and getting rid of the con-artist, go to the website:

and buy a good music-CD.

You might also make up your own grid of overused catchwords and stereotypes used by "salespersons" and other inept bullshitters.

Here are some reactions by excited gamers:

• After just 5 minutes of a meeting with a ad-agency, I had already won the game
• I found that by playing it regularly, I can finally control the urge to throw up in some meetings
• Since my first victory in a game of BS-Bingo, conferences will never be the same again for me.
• Our last merger-talk were finally interesting when 8 of us were waiting for their last box.
• We shocked the last web-design presenter when 5 of us were screaming "Bullshit" at the same time.

Last Updated: 20.12.1999