Games
Short-form games
Pick by what your group is failing at, not by what everyone enjoys. Every entry says what it actually trains.
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Short-form games
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Freeze Tag
Anyone may freeze a scene, replace a player in their exact position, and justify that position with an entirely new scene.
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Questions Only
A scene in which every single line must be a question. Anything else eliminates the player.
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Party Quirks
A host must guess the audience-supplied peculiarity of each guest arriving at their party.
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Alphabet Game
A scene in which successive lines begin with successive letters of the alphabet.
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World's Worst
Given a category, players step forward one at a time to deliver the worst conceivable example in a single beat.
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Sit, Stand, Lie Down
Three players perform a scene in which one must always be sitting, one standing and one lying down.
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Story Story Die
A line of players tells one story, each speaking only while pointed at, and eliminated for hesitating or repeating.
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Two-Headed Expert
Two players share a single character, speaking one word each, while a third interviews them about their field of expertise.
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Genre Replay
A scene is played once straight, then replayed in different genres called out by the host or audience.
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Late for Work
A player who left the room must discover, from mimed clues, the three reasons the audience decided they were late.