Fizz buzz is a group word game for children to teach them about division.
Play
Players generally sit in a circle. The player designated to go first says the number "one", and the players then count upwards in turn. A player who hesitates or makes a mistake is eliminated.
[Helene J. Sherman, Lloyd I. Richardson, George J. Yard: Teaching Learners Who Struggle with Mathematics. Waveland Press, 2016, ISBN 9781478639138, pp.25-251]
For example, a typical round of fizz buzz would start as follows:
Other variations
In some versions of the game, other divisibility rules such as 7 can be used instead. Another rule that may be used to complicate the game is where numbers containing a digit also trigger the corresponding rule (for instance, 52 would use the same rule for a number divisible by 5).
Programming
Fizz buzz (often spelled
FizzBuzz in this context) has been used as an interview screening device for computer programmers. Writing a
computer program to output the first 100 FizzBuzz numbers is a relatively trivial problem requiring little more than a loop and conditional statements in any popular language, and is thus a quick way to weed out applicants with absolutely no programming experience.
[ Lionel Pack: Solving FizzBuzz Shows Interviewers Much More Than Your Programming Skills. Forbes, 2016-09-12][
Noel Markham: Java Programming Interviews Exposed. Wiley, 2014, pp. 65-67]
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