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JohnTheGameMan:
If there were a home game of Lingo, I would see it as a hand held format.  I think it would be very neat.  I am not sure if the game came in a box version would have lasting play value than an electronic hand held.  Perhaps Tiger Electronics can create one?  After all, they came out with hand helds for Price Is Right, Hollywood Squares, Super Password, Millionaire, and of course perrenial favorites Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune!!!

Neumms:
Lingo hand-held! Way cool! (Because you can't play the web-based ones on planes.)

Did anyone else own an early electonic game from Milton Bradley called Comp IV? (It have been Comp III, the brain gets fuzzy.) It was Lingo and MasterMind but with numbers. Rather crude, it was about as big as a telephone and only had about eight tiny LED bulbs. Merlin, which I received the following Christmas, was way more fun.

Back to Lingo, The Mrs. and I have made our own pretty successful version with graph paper and a felt-tip pen. But one thing that and the web game don't have is the time limit, which is pretty important to the game.

DJDustman:
I think a board game would work if it was in a different game play like many of the other Game Show home games...

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Oct 18 2003, 11:28 AM\']

Did anyone else own an early electonic game from Milton Bradley called Comp IV? (It have been Comp III, the brain gets fuzzy.) It was Lingo and MasterMind but with numbers. Rather crude, it was about as big as a telephone and only had about eight tiny LED bulbs. [/quote]
 There were at least two other hand held electronic games around the time of Comp IV(c. 1980) that had a similar premise: Mattel's Mind Boggler and Coleco's(I think) Digits. Selchow and Righter manufactured an electronic game called Scrabble Sensor(though not hand-held) in the late 70s. It was the word guessing aspect of Lingo but with four letter words to be guessed, which could be selected by the machine or put in by the player IIRC.

The Ol' Guy:
Since this is one of my hobbies, I've already made a LINGO box game for myself and friends. It's not really that tough. I'm always buying old games at second-hand stores and recycling the parts for new projects. Admittedly you have to adapt for limitations, but it works. A 25-square grid covered with clear laminating plastic allows for the use of a dry-erase pen. Two permanent player LINGO cards (one red, one blue - using just one pattern of filled positions already used on one tv episode) - and I'm not going much farther, as if Endless Games ever decides they want to go this route, I'd like to have them look this over as a model. For what it's worth, though, because the host must hand-write the letters on the game board, the bonus round runs 3 minutes (using a classic sand timer) instead of 2. It's not all that expensive to make. I recently talked with Kevin McNulty at Endless - one problem he has to deal with is that retailers - especially the big gorillas like Toys R Us and Wal-Mart - demand they keep costs down as low as possible to keep prices down, therefore, quality is sacrificed. It all depends on how cheap they can put a package together. Milton Bradley turned down WHEW as a home game, claiming expense. I sent Jay Wolpert a copy that would only have been slightly more expensive than Jeopardy to make - as many were MB Jeopardy parts. Maybe licensing rights were high? Anyway, LINGO is very do-able.

By the way - Endless at one time re-distribuited a classic late 50s-early 60s paper and pencil word game called JOTTO, which involved determining a five-letter word using pretty much the same process as LINGO.

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