Also, in my quest to make these all relatable to improv games:
More Specific (it’s not a very good video, sorry), is a game in which two people act out a scene, with the audience (or moderator) occasionally demanding that they be “More Specific”
Example-
B: Good job finishing your paper on time! C: Yeah, I had the hardest time finding my references... Audience: More specific! C: My kid thought that my reference books would be better with all the pages ripped out, and I couldn’t find the pages with my quotes etc
I’m thinking that I actually might have seen this game mentioned on LW before, but I didn’t a quick search and didn’t see it.
Spitball (not a vid) is a game in which “Players take a mundane object suggested by the audience and elaborately detail it”, generally using “Yes, and...” technique.
An improv-y style warm-up game that I just thought up, upon which I bestow the name “Something”. In this game, everyone gets in a circle. The starting person (or moderator) comes up with a sentence that has a lot of “somethings” and “things” in it. Each person makes it more and more specific.
Example- 1: Did you something the thing with that thing that somethinged? 2: Did you see the thing with that, etc.... 3: Did you see the bug with.... 4: Did you see the ant with.... 5: Did you examine the ant.... etc
As with all of these games, the “goal” is to keep it quick.
In beginner level, it goes around the circle clockwise, and the sentences are kept short.
In advanced level, after you go, you shoot it off (the clap-point motion) to a random person, and the sentences can be longer.
I have no clue how well this game actually works (having just thought of it), if anyone ever tries it out, let me know!
Also, in my quest to make these all relatable to improv games:
More Specific (it’s not a very good video, sorry), is a game in which two people act out a scene, with the audience (or moderator) occasionally demanding that they be “More Specific”
Example-
B: Good job finishing your paper on time!
C: Yeah, I had the hardest time finding my references...
Audience: More specific!
C: My kid thought that my reference books would be better with all the pages ripped out, and I couldn’t find the pages with my quotes
etc
I’m thinking that I actually might have seen this game mentioned on LW before, but I didn’t a quick search and didn’t see it.
Spitball (not a vid) is a game in which “Players take a mundane object suggested by the audience and elaborately detail it”, generally using “Yes, and...” technique.
An improv-y style warm-up game that I just thought up, upon which I bestow the name “Something”. In this game, everyone gets in a circle. The starting person (or moderator) comes up with a sentence that has a lot of “somethings” and “things” in it. Each person makes it more and more specific.
Example-
1: Did you something the thing with that thing that somethinged?
2: Did you see the thing with that, etc....
3: Did you see the bug with....
4: Did you see the ant with....
5: Did you examine the ant....
etc
As with all of these games, the “goal” is to keep it quick.
In beginner level, it goes around the circle clockwise, and the sentences are kept short.
In advanced level, after you go, you shoot it off (the clap-point motion) to a random person, and the sentences can be longer.
I have no clue how well this game actually works (having just thought of it), if anyone ever tries it out, let me know!