Games and puzzles can provide a stimulating alternative to noninteractive lectures. Games such as Relays (1), Chemical Squares (2), Jeopardy (3), and Odd Man Out (4 ), as well as numerous puzzles, have been reported in this Journal. BINGO has been applied to chemistry education for matching element names to symbols and compound names to formulas (5). Teaching and drilling chemical nomenclature can be particularly mind-numbing, and a game of Nomenclature BINGO can allow a bit of fun while providing instruction and practice. I have had success applying BINGO to simple alkane nomenclature, and many variations are possible.

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Mass Spectrometry (MS) has gained increased attention in recent years given the availability of appropriate afford-