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jrjgames:
Now take a second before you answer this...

Would anyone have any interest in a Lingo home game?

Would you buy one?

Would you buy one just to HAVE?

Would you see yourself actually playing it?

Respond here with comments!

John

PeterMarshallFan:
Sure. Lingo's a great game to play.

BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'jrjgames\' date=\'Oct 16 2003, 04:13 PM\'] Now take a second before you answer this...

Would anyone have any interest in a Lingo home game?

Would you buy one?

Would you buy one just to HAVE?

Would you see yourself actually playing it?

Respond here with comments!

John [/quote]
 After playing Jason Wutrich's computer Lingo game, I say definitely.  Could make for hours and hours of fun, could even include a dictionary like on Scrabble, then again, it would probably work better if it were an electronic game, and you just type in the words. Besides, if it were computerized, you could play in solo mode as well.

Matt Ottinger:
I assume you mean in the form of a computer game, since a physical box game would present some obvious problems.

My personal thought is that the only user-interesting aspect of LINGO is the five-letter word game, and several people on the internet already have unlicensed versions available for free, some of them quite good.  If I can fire up one of those to challenge myself, why would I want or need to buy a version?  OK, a multi-player element would be an improvement, but is there really a great demand to get your friends together and play LINGO around your computer?

Of course, having said that, in the unlikely event that a licensed home game WAS released, I would naturally have to buy one for my collection.

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Oct 16 2003, 04:35 PM\'] I assume you mean in the form of a computer game, since a physical box game would present some obvious problems.

 [/quote]
 The five-letter word IDing portion of Lingo plays quite like the no-longer made(probably from the 70s, Matt O. or someone who knows their board games could tell us better) Mastermind board game spinoff Word Mastermind. Mastermind had players guessing a combination of four colored pegs picked by their opponent to win, and hearing info about which colors were right or wrong. Word Mastermind had players guessing a four or five letter word a la Lingo.

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