Games

Crowd favorites

The performance games audiences reliably love — the ones that built short form's reputation.

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  • 1. 4 or more players · 8–10 minutes

    Freeze Tag

    Anyone may freeze a scene, replace a player in their exact position, and justify that position with an entirely new scene.

  • 2. 4 players · 6–8 minutes

    Party Quirks

    A host must guess the audience-supplied peculiarity of each guest arriving at their party.

  • 3. 4 or more players · 4–5 minutes

    World's Worst

    Given a category, players step forward one at a time to deliver the worst conceivable example in a single beat.

  • 4. 4 or more plus a conductor players · 6–8 minutes

    Story Story Die

    A line of players tells one story, each speaking only while pointed at, and eliminated for hesitating or repeating.

  • 5. 2 or more players · 8–10 minutes

    Genre Replay

    A scene is played once straight, then replayed in different genres called out by the host or audience.

  • 6. 4 players · 8–10 minutes

    Late for Work

    A player who left the room must discover, from mimed clues, the three reasons the audience decided they were late.