Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Catch-phrase Bingo

Ok - idea being generated so have patience ...

The background assumptions:
In the environment where you work, there are other adult-type people. These people are not necessarily your dearest friends and family. They each bring their own personalities, vocal inflections, quirks, etc. which is what makes the environment unique. Depending on the business (and on your line of work in said "business"), there are certain phrases that are used. Some of them, over time, can get under your skin.

The Game:
This is "catch-phrase bingo". Ya' create a sheet of words and phrases that you and 4 friends at work LOTHE hearing, and you write them out in a random grid pattern that's 5 boxes wide and 5 boxes long. When the grid is filled with 25 super-annoying words/phrases, the names of you and your friends are written across the top of the grid. (Maybe ya' all draw numbers to determine the order ... or it's done alphabetically ... it doesn't matter).

The Play:
Throughout the working day, as soon as you hear any of the the 5 words or phrases under your name, you email the others, and the corresponding word or phrase is marked off. To keep things interesting, you MUST first mark all of your boxes. Once you have done that, the rest of the boxes are yours to report.

The Win:
There will be one last box - one annoying word or phrase that no one hears for days - or possibly weeks. The name at the top of where that box falls is the official coffee break provider for the other players, who have officially won the game. (I always like games with more than one winner.) When the morning coffee run occurs, the tab gets paid by the individual who has been lucky enough to NOT hear 5 annoying words/phrases.

The End:
The game concludes when that last word or phrase is heard. At that point, a new board is created and ... ya' get the idea.

Since this can't really be played between remote office locations, I'll just add that my words/phrases would be "outsourcing", "paradigm", "it is what it is", "eco-build", and, this one is for my guy, "ping".

2 comments:

Dana @ Cooking At Cafe D said...

Jules,
Are you watching 24? (Or, have you seen any episode of it at all?)If so, I physically cringed when Janine Garafalo told someone to "open a new socket" this week.

I think I'm gonna have to recommend this game at work. ;)
D

PF said...

So that would be... Lingo Bingo?