The cards are printed with different colors on each side. Play through one color first and then switch to the other color to avoid repeats. You may not move on to the next clue until you have either gotten a correct answer to the clue, or your teammates have said, "Pass". You must stop reading when the Timer runs out.
Your whole team should be quiet, because any answers given after time runs out are scored by the opposing team. While the playing team is playing, the opposing team has two things to do: handle the Scoring Cards and watch the Timer. One player hold the Scoring Cards. As the reader reads the clues to his or her team, lay down one card for each clue in a row on the table.
The Scoring Cards are stacked in numerical order, so the numbers on them will match the numbers of the clues being read. The answer to all just happens to be your buzzword. The game Buzzword involves a lot of discussion and team work as team work together quickly to find their buzzword before the timer goes off.
If you are looking for a clever, fun, and unique group game, try playing Buzzword. It is just enough to test your skills but easy enough to make a fun night of it. Join in the fun with Buzzword or even Buzzword Junior for kids. The game would be too easy if people could turn buzz words into acronyms or just say what an acronym stands for. Sally and three of her close friends are out camping and realize they forgot to bring any games. But Sally comes to the rescue and pulls out her Android phone with Buzzwords!
The group praises her foresight and excitedly divides up into two teams of two. Sally opens the app and taps Play to enter the Game Setup screen. The group divides into two teams, yellow and green, and Sally highlights those colors. Sally taps Start Game to play. Sally starts off presenting for the Yellow Team and Rob, sitting to her left, monitors Sally on behalf of the Green Team.
Sally's first word to present is Sandwich, which includes the 'buzz' words bread, butter, eat, lunch, and sub. She starts by saying, 'OK Sally unfortunately can't get her team to guess the next word and time runs up. Her turn totals an embarassing -1 points. But Sally is given a chance for redemption. She passes the phone to her right, to Zack on the Green team and then looks over his shoulder to call him out. She's so on top of it that Zack ends up with -3 points. The group decides to cut him a break and on the Turn Results screen they change one word to a "skip", making him only lose his team 2 points.
Zack passes the phone to his right and assumes the monitoring role, eager to exact his revenge. We love Open Source software and want to do our part to foster sharing within the game community. Part of the reason we decided to develop for Android first instead of iOS was because the platform is mostly open. This license allows anyone to copy, modify, or share our code provided it is licensed under the GNU Public License v3.
The only piece of our app that is excluded from this license is the XML file that stores the deck of slides key words and buzz words. Licensing our app this way allows us to give back to the Android community without precluding our ability to profit from the app. We wanted the community to be able to see a fully functional Android app rather than just the snipets of code that developers typically share, and we put a deliberate effort into using best practices throughout our development.
If you are a fan of Buzzwords and are interested in using or just checking out our code we would love to hear from you.
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