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Group and opening games

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Group and opening games

  • 4 or more players · 6–8 minutes

    Pattern Game

    From one suggestion, the group speaks free associations aloud, building chains of words and images with no scenes.

  • 4 or more players · 8–10 minutes

    Invocation

    The group explores a single word in escalating stages, from third-person description through to speaking as the thing itself.

  • 4 or more players · 5–6 minutes

    Group Monologue

    The whole group speaks as a single first-person narrator, one sentence at a time, telling one continuous account.