ImprovCity Games Flashcards
(123 cards)
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10 Steps
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Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2
Host description: One player will begin speaking one word. The next player will speak two words. Then the first player will speak three words, other player four words, and so on until they reach ten words, at which point they will go backwards to nine words, eight words all the way to one again.
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185
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Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: 185 is a standard joke-telling game that goes like this: “185 blanks walk into the bar and the bartender says ‘We don’t serve blanks here’ and the blanks reply with a punch line.” The blanks will be suggestions we get from the audience and the performers will fill in the punch line. This game is meant to be punny and make the audience laugh and/or groan.
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Advice Column
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Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 3
Host description: Three players on stage answer advice questions fielded by the audience. Each player is assigned a famous person or occupation.
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Alphabet
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Type of game: ELIMINATION
Number of Players: 3 or more
Host description: Two players perform a scene alternating beginning their sentences with letters in the alphabet. Once they go through the entire alphabet, they go backwards through alphabet.
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Arms Expert
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Type of game: INTERVIEW
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: One person will supply the hands/arms of another person as they do a talk-type interview or television show.
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Audience Sound Effects
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Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: An audience member provides the sound effects for the performers on stage.
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Ballad
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Type of game: MUSICAL
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: A ballad is sung by performers about someone or something
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Battlescene Galactica
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Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4 per team
Host description: Two teams will each do a scene based off of one suggestion. One team goes first while other team is out of room
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Beastie Rap
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Type of game: MUSICAL with ROTATION ELIMINATION
Number of Players: 3 per team
Host description: Team of 3 vs. team of 3. One person in front with two players behind will set up a rhyme. Two people in back must say the rhyme word in unison. If they do not, they will rotate positions
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Beat on da Brat
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Type of game: ELIMINATION
Number of Players: 3 or more per team
Host description: Two teams line up facing one another. A player from first team sings a line to rap music. Player from second team will rhyme line and then feed a new line to other team. Each team must rhyme line then feed new line. If they don’t rhyme they are eliminated until all team members are gone
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Blindfolded Scene
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Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 3
Host description: A scene is performed blindfolded
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Blind Freeze
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Type of game: FREEZE
Number of Players: 3 or more
Host description: Two performers do a scene while other performers backs are turned. At anytime those with backs turned yell “freeze” while players in scene freeze in position. Person comes out, taps out a person, assumes their position and begins a new scene based on the frozen position
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Blind Line
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Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: Lines of dialogue are gotten before scene and players (not knowing the lines) do a scene, randomly picking up a line of dialogue and saying it and justifying it
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Blind Song
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Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: Lines of dialogue are gotten before scene and players (not knowing the lines) do a scene, randomly picking up a line of dialogue and then sing a song, with the line being the last line of the song.
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Blitzkrieg
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Type of game: GUESSING
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: Eight pop culture references are gotten by audience. One player will guess who they are and what they are in for each reference. Players giving clues can only use mime & gibberish and cannot be the thing the player is guessing they are
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Break-Up Lines
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Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: Players step forward and deliver a break-up line incorporating a suggestion from the audience
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Chain Murder
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Type of game: GUESSING
Number of Players: 3 or 4
Host description: Suggestions of a place, occupation and weapon are gotten and players pass clues using mime & gibberish to one another. Players then guess what these things are in the reverse order of which they got the clues
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Changing Emotions
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Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed where throughout it the host will shout different emotions (supplied by audience ahead of time) and the players must all become that emotion
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Closed Caption
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Type of game: INTERVIEW
Number of Players: 3
Host description: A talk show performed by two players that is closed captioned by a third player
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Combo
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Type of game: CHALLENGE
Number of Players: Varies
Host description: Two games at random are combined and played incorporating the rules of each
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Continuation
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Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 3 per team
Host description: One team begins a scene. At some point host will switch teams and other team will continue established scene mid-sentence/mid-movement, and so on
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Continuation Dubbing
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Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 3 per team
Host description: Same as Continuation except that the team offstage dubs the words for the team onstage
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Countdown
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Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A 90 second scene is performed. Then it’s replayed in 45 seconds, 23 seconds, 11 seconds and finally 5 seconds
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Country Bear Jamboree
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Type of game: GUESSING
Number of Players: 3 or more
Host description: A pop culture reference is gotten and players acting as anamatronics act it out while someone watching will guess what is being performed and who or what each person is in it
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Crossing the Road
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: Players step forward and deliver a “Why did the _____ cross the road joke” with the ______ suggested by the audience
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Da Doo Ron Ron
Type of game: ELIMINATION
Number of Players: 4 or more
Host description: Performers sing to the melody of Da Doo Ron Ron rhyming in the set of 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3 and so on. Players who repeat, hesitate, or fall off meter are eliminated
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Dating Game
Type of game: GUESSING
Number of Players: 3 plus host
Host description: Players are assigned characters and give clues to who they are by answering questions from someone in a Dating Game TV show style
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Day in the Life
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: An audience member tells performers things about them. The performers do a scene based on a random day in that audience member’s life
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Dear Diary
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: Players step forward and deliver a diary entry as a character suggested by audience
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Death Pendulum
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3
Host description: Three different suggestions are gotten by audience. Players will rotate through scene suggestions performing three different scenes (as called by host). After first round of scenes takes place, each time a scene is visited from there out a player’s character must die in the scene. In each new switch to another scene players must justify their positions where they are located (ie: floor, frozen position, etc.). Once a player’s character dies in a scene, when players return to that scene, player whose character is dead must return to the spot where they died.
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Dime Store Novel
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: One player writes a story that is acted about by the other players.
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Dirty Hand Randy
Type of game: ELIMINATION
Number of Players: 4 or more
Host description: A broad topic is suggested by audience and performers must name things that fall under that category. If they repeat, hesitate or say something that doesn’t fit, they are eliminated.
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Double Blind Freeze
Type of game: FREEZE
Number of Players: 4, 6, 8 or 10
Host description: Players are paired up. Two begin a scene and when host blows whistle, players yell freeze and two on stage do freeze. Next pair come out and assume positions of frozen players and begin a brand new scene justifying positions.
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Dr. Know-it-All
Type of game: QUESTION/ANSWER
Number of Players: 3 or 4
Host description: Players answer questions from the audience one word at a time.
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Dr. Speak-as-One
Type of game: QUESTION/ANSWER
Number of Players: 3
Host description: Players answer questions from the audience speaking same words at the same time.
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Dubbing
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 6
Host description: Players offstage provide the voices for the players onstage.
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Duets
Type of game: MUSICAL
Number of Players: 2
Host description: Two players sing a song together in a musical style.
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Emotional Symphony
Type of game: MUSICAL
Number of Players: 4 to 8
Host description: Every player is assigned an emotion and perform a symphony together using the emotions as their instruments.
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Film Noir
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: Players do a scene in the style of a film noir.
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Five Things
Type of game: GUESSING
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: Five activities are gotten from audience and host changes things about them. Using only mime & gibberish players give clues to another player to get them to guess what the activity is and what has been changed in each. Players giving clues cannot do the activity.
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Flashback
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed where host can call “flashback” when a reference to something in the past has happened and players take scene to that flashback and continue from there.
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Foreign Movie
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 8
Host description: Players do a scene in gibberish which is dubbed in English from players offstage.
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Forward/Reverse
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: Scene is performed where host can make players go forward or reverse throughout the scene.
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Four Letter Word
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 4 per team
Host description: Each team will get a four letter word. They will then give suggestions to the other team based on the letters that form that word in this order: First two letters; three letters; all four letters.
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Four Second Scenes
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 4 or more
Host description: A series of scenes are performed that are only four seconds long.
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Free-for-All Freeze
Type of game: FREEZE
Number of Players: 4 or more
Host description: Players do various scenes and at anytime can come/go throughout. Players offstage can also yell freeze and players onstage will freeze. Player who yelled freeze taps out who they don’t want in and then begins a new scene justifying remaining players still frozen on stage.
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Freeze Tag
Type of game: FREEZE
Number of Players: 3 or more
Host description: Players do various scenes and anytime a player offstage can yell freeze. Players onstage freeze and are tapped out by the player who yelled freeze. That player assumes the position of the person they tapped out and begins a brand new scene justifying the position.
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Game-o-Matic
Type of game: CHALLENGE
Number of Players: Varies
Host description: A game is made up on the spot.
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Genre
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed in a genre style.
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Gibberish Replay
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 3 per team
Host description: A one minute scene is performed by one team in gibberish and then replayed by other team in English with a suggestion. Then teams switch roles.
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Gibberenglish
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed where anytime host can switch players from English to gibberish and vice versa.
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Grand Theft Auto
Type of game: TEAM vs. TEAM
Number of Players: 2 to 4 per team
Host description: Teams rotate turns driving an imaginary car and endowing each other with characters.
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Hesitation
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: Scene is performed where players hesitate during dialogue and have the audience supply a word for them to use. Players must justify word in the scene.
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Hoedown
Type of game: MUSICAL
Number of Players: 4
Host description: Players do a song in the style of a hoedown.
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If you know what I Mean
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 or 3
Host description: A scene is performed where players speak using as many innuendoes as possible.
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Inner Voice
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 or 3 with another 2 or 3 performers offstage
Host description: Scene is performed where players onstage have their inner thoughts provided by players offstage.
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Innuendo
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: Players step forward and deliver an innuendo based on an audience suggestion with the setup “I like my men/women like I like my _____”.
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Interpreter
Type of game: INTERVIEW
Number of Players: 3
Host description: One player interviews another who understands English but only speaks gibberish. A third player interprets the gibberish.
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Interrogation
Type of game: GUESSING
Number of Players: 3 or 4
Host description: Players drop subtle clues to another player who has to guess a crime they committed along with one or two embellishments to it.
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I Object
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 4 or more
Host description: Players get a topic and debate their view on it. Anytime another player can object. Host decides to sustain it or overrule objection. If sustained that player takes focus on the topic.
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Irish Drinking Song
Type of game: MUSICAL
Number of Players: 4
Host description: Players sing an Irish song in the rhyme scheme ABCB.
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Last Action Joke
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 3 or more
Host description: Players deliver a pun about killing someone in their best Arnold Schwarzenegger voice based on suggestions from audience.
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Madrigal
Type of game: MUSICAL
Number of Players: 3
Host description: Players sing a 16th century madrigal using lines of dialogue.
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Meanwhile Elsewhere
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 4 or more
Host description: Players do a scene and anytime someone can call out “Meanwhile” and a different location at which point scene will go to that location.
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Mega-Replay
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4 per team
Host description: One team does a minute scene. Other team replays scene in 30 seconds. Then six replay styles are gotten and teams rotate playing the scene in those styles.
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Missing Letter
Type of game: ELIMINATION/SCENE
Number of Players: 3 or more
Host description: Players do a scene without using any words that have a certain letter in it. If they do they rotate out to the end of the line.
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Movie Reviews
Type of game: INTERVIEW/SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 5
Host description: Fake movie are reviewed by player(s) and clips of them are reenacted by other players.
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Moving Bodies
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 3
Host description: Players cannot move unless someone else moves them as they perform a scene.
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Musical Comedy
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: A scene is performed in the style of a musical.
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Musical Dubbing
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 4 or 6
Host description: A musical is performed but players voices onstage are dubbed by players offstage.
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Musical Rumble
Type of game: MUSICAL
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: Players perform a song in a musical genre.
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Naive Replay
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: A player performs a solo one minute scene leaving space for other performers in the scene. One by one a player is put into the replay of the scene figuring out their place in it.
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Neighbor Freeze
Type of game: FREEZE
Number of Players: 4 or more
Host description: Same as Freeze Tag except player who yells freeze calls in a different player.
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New Choice
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed and when host calls “new choice” player speaking must change what they said.
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Newscaster
Type of game: INTERVIEW
Number of Players: 3 or 4
Host description: A newscast is done with an anchor, field reporter and eye witness(es). It should go through three rounds of each player taking a turn speaking in their role.
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Numbered Sentence (Head to Head)
Type of game: ELIMINATION/SCENE
Number of Players: 4 or more
Host description: Players are given a certain number of words they can speak. If they speak too little, too many, hesitate, count on their fingers or don’t make any sense, they rotate to the back of the line.
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Numbered Sentence (team game)
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: Players are each assigned a certain number of words they can speak for each sentence. If they say too little or too many they have to keep repeating their line until they can get the correct amount of words.
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Object Freeze
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: Players are provided objects which they must make a use for other than it’s original intended use.
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Oscar Winning Performance
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed where host can call on a player to give an oscar winning performance. Then they break away for a moment and perform a soliloquy of their moment.
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Parallel Universe
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 4, 6 or 8 split into teams of 2
Host description: Players pair up into groups of two and rotate through their scenes when the host calls switch. Each time a scene cuts away, the last line of the most recent scene will be the first line of the new scene that begins.
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Pavlovian Response
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3
Host description: Players are assigned to watch another player for when they do something, which will cause the player watching to have a reaction (both physical and vocal). The reactions are not justified or mentioned in the scene.
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Pick-a-Play
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3
Host description: Two players can only read lines from a book. The third can speak freely and must justify the other's sentences.
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Pick Up Lines
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: Players line up and deliver a pick up lines based on an audience suggestions.
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Pineapple Knuckle
Type of game: SCENE or TWIST
Number of Players: 2 or more
Host description: Players pass a cup of water (that is not mentioned or drawn attention to in the scene) back and forth while someone else not watching the scene holds up five fingers. When they put a finger down, host calls “pineapple knuckle” and player holding water cup must splash it on their face. Once all five fingers are down game is over.
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Prequel/Sequel
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A 90 second scene is performed. After the audience votes on whether they’d like to see the sequel or prequel to the scene which is then performed in another 90 second scene.
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Questions Only
Type of game: ELIMINATION
Number of Players: 3 or more
Host description: Players can only speak in questions. If they do not, or hesitate or make no sense, they rotate to the back of the line.
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Qwazy Quest
Type of game: TIMED/SCENE
Number of Players: 3
Host description: One player must quest for an object for three minutes going back and forth between two other players who have the object needed but cannot give it to that player without first getting something else. At the three minute mark, players have 30 seconds to go backward in reverse order to each destination getting every item mentioned.
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Reality Show
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed where anytime host can call a player to the “booth” where they will talk about their fellow performers in the context of the scene.
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Replay
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: One minute scene is performed and then replayed in three different styles.
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Replay Dropout
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3
Host description: One minute scene is performed then replayed with one person dropping out and their part being covered by the second player who’ll drop out when the scene is replayed a third time by just one player covering all three parts.
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Rhyme Scene
Type of game: ELIMINATION
Number of Players: 3 to 4 per team
Host description: One person on a team feeds a line which must be rhymed by player on opposing team. After rhyming, they feed a new line back to first player. Players are eliminated if they fall off meter, don’t rhyme, repeat for hesitate.
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Scatter Freeze
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 4 to 8
Host description: Various short scenes are performed based off of audience suggestions. When host ends one scene to begin another players all yell “Scatter”.
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Scene-In-Reverse
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed backwards.
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Scene In the Dark
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed in the dark.
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Shakespeare
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed in the style of Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare Shootout
Type of game: MONOLOGUE
Number of Players: 2
Host description: One player does a one minute soliloquy on a topic speaking in the style of Shakespeare. Then the second person does the same with the same topic. Audience votes on who they liked better.
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Shopkeeper
Type of game: GUESSING
Number of Players: 3
Host description: One player must guess what items other players want to buy (based on audience suggestions). They players buying the item drop subtle clues as to what it is without saying it outright.
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Shrinking Stage
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: A 60-90 second scene is performed and then replayed, each time the stage getting smaller and smaller.
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Sing It
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: Player perform a scene where anytime host will make a player sing a song with their last line of dialogue being the title of their song.
100
Sit Stand Bend
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3
Host description: A scene is performed where at any given time one player must be standing, one must be sitting and one must be bending.
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Slide Show
Type of game: JUSTIFICATION
Number of Players: 3 to 6
Host description: One performer narrates a slide show which is comprised of other players freezing in various positions on stage.
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Slomo Olympics
Type of game: TALK SHOW
Number of Players: 4
Host description: Two players comment on a non-sporting event taking place between two other players in slow motion.
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Sound Effects Hell
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: Players perform a scene while another player not in the room provides sound effects. Players must justify all sound effects.
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Spelling Bee
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 3, 6 or 9
Host description: Players will get a word and have to say it, spell it one letter at a time, say it again, use the word in a sentence one word at a time, and then say the word again.
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Split Decision
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: Audience member supplies a decision they need to make. Players then do two 90 second scenes, each one showing what will happen if that choice is made.
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Stage Directions
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: Players do a scene and anytime throughout the scene stage direction are given from offstage and players must do them.
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Story
Type of game: ELIMINATION
Number of Players: 4 to 6
Host description: Players create a story when host points at them. When host points to a different player, player speaking must stop talking and new player must continue the story mid-word, mid-sentence or mid-syllable from where the previous player stopped. Players are eliminated if they do not pick up right where the story left off, if they keep speaking while not being pointed at, or if they hesitate or make no sense.
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Storytime
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 3 to 8
Host description: A player steps forward and tells a story until another player taps them out and continues the story mid-word, mid-sentence or mid-syllable from where the previous player stopped.
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Stunt Double
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: Two players do a scene and anytime something a player doesn’t want to do in a scene, they say “stunt double” and exit the stage while a 3rd player offstage will come in briefly, do that thing, and then exit the scene while the original player resumes their role in the scene.
110
Switch Interview
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 3 to 8
Host description: A series of interviews take place between two players on a topic. When host blows whistle players yell “switch” and rotate positions.
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Texas-Sized
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: A one minute scene is performed three times. The first time it is played normal. The second time every object established in the scene is large. The third time all the objects are “Texas Sized”.
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That's a Line
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 3 per team
Host description: One team leaves room while suggestions are gotten. Other team gets quotable lines of dialogue which they will then do a scene with the other team watching and try to slip in these lines of dialogue. At any time team watching can say “that’s a line” trying to guess if last line said was a suggested line of dialogue.
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Three-Headed Broadway Star
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 3
Host description: Three players do a song singing it one word at a time.
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Three Impossible Things
Type of game: GUESSING
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: Three impossible suggestions are gotten and two players using only mime & gibberish must get a third person to guess what they are.
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Timeline
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 4 to 8
Host description: Audience member tells of something they did today and players perform scenes throughout a timeline of this event (past or future) but never perform a scene about the actual event.
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Trigger Word
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3
Host description: Players are each given a “trigger” word and every time that word is mentioned in the scene, if the player is off stage they must come on stage and if on stage must exit.
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Town Meeting
Type of game: CHARACTER
Number of Players: 3 to 4 per team
Host description: A town meeting takes place on a topic suggested by the audience and one team is for it and one team is against it.
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Two-Headed Scene
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 4
Host description: Two players pair up and must speak one word at a time and another two players team up and must speak at the exact same time the exact same words.
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What are you Doing
Type of game: ELIMINATION
Number of Players: 2 to 4 per team
Host description: One player starts and action and is asked by the other “What are you doing?” The player will then say something other than what they are actually doing. Then the other player will take on that action and so forth. A player is eliminated if they do what they’re saying or say what they’re doing, if they repeat, or if they hesitate.
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What Happens Next
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 2 to 4
Host description: A scene is performed where anytime the host can stop the scene and ask the audience “What happens next.” Then players must then incorporate it into the scene and justify it.
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Word from our Sponsor
Type of game: SCENE
Number of Players: 3 to 4
Host description: A talk show is done with different commercial breaks.
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World's Worst
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 3 or more
Host description: Topics are gotten from the audience and the players step forward and say or do the world’s worst thing in that situation.
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World Without
Type of game: LINE
Number of Players: 3 or more
Host description: Various suggestions are gotten from the audience and the players step forward and say or show what the world would be like without that suggestion in it.
