Games

Listening clinic

For the week the notes were all 'you're planning instead of hearing each other.'

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Run them in this order.

  • 1. 2 or more players · 5 minutes

    Mind Meld

    Two players say a word simultaneously, then keep saying words suggested by both previous words until they land on the same one.

  • 2. 3 or more players · 8–10 minutes

    One Word Story

    A group tells a single coherent story contributing one word each, with no pauses and no ungrammatical sentences.

  • 3. 2 at a time players · 15–20 minutes

    Three-Line Scenes

    Scenes exactly three lines long, run in rapid succession, to isolate the moment a scene becomes about something.

  • 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 3 players · 5–7 minutes

    Two-Headed Expert

    Two players share a single character, speaking one word each, while a third interviews them about their field of expertise.

  • 6. 2 players · 6–8 minutes

    Mirror

    Two players move in perfect unison with neither leading, so an observer cannot tell who initiates.