Salen & Zimmerman’s game

• System rules: If someone says the word on a card of yours, you can pass on the cards. Ambiguity: When are we playing the game?

• Outcome: # of cards in everybody's possession at the end of the conference.

• Valorization of outcome: Get rid of your cards to win.

• Player effort: Listen attentively; watch your mouth.

• Attachment to outcome: Players are responsible for the outcome.

• Optional / negotiable consequences: Breaks with the classic game model in being disruptive of the context; in that it overlaps with a non-game activity.

• Buzz uses normal conference conversations as a found object, appropriated for game purposes.

• In Buzz, the ambiguity is a positive effect.