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Here's a book published in Britain in 1990, titled "Family and party games", which mentions calls it "BuzzFizz", but isn't quite the same a "FizzBuzz" ("57" is
by eesmith 4y ago
Here's a book published in Britain in 1990, titled "Family and party games", which mentions calls it "BuzzFizz", but isn't quite the same a "FizzBuzz" ("57" is read a "buzz fizz" because the "buzz" replaces the 5 and "fizz" replaces the "7" and 57 is neither a multiple of 5 nor 7.)
https://archive.org/details/familypartygames0000diag/page/122/mode/2up?q=buzz https://archive.org/details/familypartygames0000diag/page/12...
Here's another British book from 1990 (reprinted in 1992), where FizzBuzz are for multiples of 3 and 5:
https://archive.org/details/algebra0000maso/page/10/mode/2up?q=buzz https://archive.org/details/algebra0000maso/page/10/mode/2up...
While from 1990 here's a US book which says "Fizz-Buzz-Fizz" and "Buzz-Fizz-Buzz" are well known, before describing "Reverse Buzz". It uses numbers with 7 in the base-10 representation, and numbers which are multiples of 7:
https://archive.org/details/greatgamestoplay0000harr/page/78/mode/2up?q=buzz https://archive.org/details/greatgamestoplay0000harr/page/78...
And another 1990s book from the US does the multiples-of-5-and-7:
https://archive.org/details/hopscotchhangman00magu/page/36/mode/2up?q=fizz https://archive.org/details/hopscotchhangman00magu/page/36/m...
Conclusion: the game has been in the US and the UK for a long time.
- anigbrowl 4y agoYou ought to add that to the Wikipedia entry, though you might get some pedant carping about 'original research.'
- eesmith 4y agoI only wanted to see if the term pre-dated the software dev usage, and was used in the US and UK. A WP change should dig back further then 1990, which is the year limit I used in my search.
- CM30 4y agoThanks for the information! Interesting to see it's been around for a long time, and it makes me wonder how I never came across it as a kid.
- eesmith 4y agoJust because it's been around for a while doesn't mean it's well known. Take a look at all the other games mentioned in those books. I've certainly not heard about most of them.