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Quick Fire Games
Alphabet
Audience chooses a letter (ex. G) In teams, Team A Person 1 says a sentence that starts with the selected letter (ex. G). Team B Person1 continues with a sentence that starts with the next letter (ex. H). Host rings out players if the letter is not correct or...
Freeze Game
2 players start a scene A 3rd player interrupts by saying “freeze” after which the first 2 players freeze in whatever position they were in. The 3rd player takes the place of one of the players on stage and assumes their frozen position before restarting the ...
Last Word
The game is played in a similar manner than the alphabet game. In this case player A makes a statement and player B creates a following statement starting with the last word of the first player’s statement. Small, grammatical changes are permitted for the sak...
Props to You
Host arranges a prop that none of the players have seen. All players join trying to find as many uses for the prop in 60 seconds. The host presents the prop, sets the timer, and ends game play.
Questions Only
Team A and Team B have 2 persons each. The host rings out people who hesitate or do not ask questions. In turn, Team A and B carry on a conversation using questions.
Quick Response
This can be played as a quick fire game. All players stay in a line, the host reads a statement or a sentence, and each player in turn says the first thing that pops into their head. Notes on play: Seems to work best if everyone just get one scene for each sta...
Rhyming
Two teams, two persons and go through a quickfire rhyming of words
Scenes from a Hat
Audience writes suggestions for quick scenes Put them in a hat Pull scenes from the hat Players quickly try to do as many as possible Examples: Worst cookbook titles, unfortunate names for a pet, bad pickup lines
They Said
Quick fire game 2 players at a time (A and B) A makes a statement and B replies the phrase “they said” and then gives an action which A must enact. Then B makes a statement and so on and so on Maybe buzz out people if they take too long? Example: ...
Scene Games
Addition and Subtraction
This is a game about fast switching activity, a bit like “Channel Surfing”. Players A starts the scene with a scenario given by the host. Then Player B enters the scene and changes the scenario. The player should make a clear statement, what the new scenario...
Channel Surfin'
Ask audience for suggestions of styles of TV/film/theatre Start a scene, randomly change to a different “channel” Examples of styles: a musical, a spaghetti western, film noir, action movie, comedy, Shakespeare
Countdown
A scenario is given A scene is played in 60 seconds. It is played again but in 30 seconds this time. Then in 15 seconds Then 5 seconds 1 second After workshopping in person, decided it’s better to play the scene in 30, 15, and 5 seconds.
Customer Service
A person (Karen) calls customer service for some predefined reason by the host. The caller is then transferred to department to department. Customer Service announces the next representative and the new department. Notes on play: We started off doing this o...
Director's Cut
3 players act out a scene The 4th player is the “director” and yells cut to stop the scene, and give directions before restarting the scene Examples of directorial notes: – everyone is Italian – it’s riverdance – everyone jump on one leg – be happy – be sad –...