Wow, thanks for the heads up! Was not expecting this...

Yes. If a team buzzes in and the host marks their response as incorrect, they can’t buzz in again.

I meant this part:

> If a contestant attempts to ring in before the gameboard lights activate, the system locks out their signal for a quarter of a second.

This discourages contestants from repeatedly tapping the buzzer before the question has finished being read.

Oh, I see. No, not yet.

There’s only two public boards: “Animals”, which I clobbered together awhile ago just as a demo for folks to test Buzzinga with.

I later added the “Millennials” game, which I created myself and played with friends on a game night.

Neither have clues from the Jeopardy! show itself AFAIK.

is there a way to add our own questions/board?

Yes, you just hit “Create new board” on the play.buzzinga.io page which will prompt you to sign up or log in.

Excellent!

I’d like to make an offline mode so you can connect physical buttons/buzzers and not have to worry about connectivity/latency, etc.

This is a great idea.

When I was thinking of a name I thought, well, what do you do when you’re playing? Buzz in. So I just thought “Buzzinga.” That’s the origin story.

Any chance the name clashes with WB's trademark of the Bazinga! catchphrase?

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85210239&caseType=SERIAL_...

No. The trademark you linked to is for "Bazinga!" with an exclamation mark.

> Mark Literal Elements: BAZINGA!

So overall, the site including the buzzer page uses websockets for (close to) real-time client-server communication.

Obviously latency can be an issue, so my non-perfect B+ solution is to essentially calculate the round trip of the buzz, divide it by 2, and subtract it from the server time.

client ------------ pingTime ------------> server

client <----------- serverTime ----------- server

roundTrip = pingTime + pongTime

buzzTime = serverTime - (roundTrip / 2);

The server time is always the source of truth since client times can vary. Not using NTP which could possibly be more accurate.

Thank you!

Yeah, the wording is a good point. I'll think about the color scheme.

IANAL but I had one who advised us our Trade Dress was defendable.