Saturday, December 3, 2011

Charades Telephone

This is like the game telephone, but with charades.

In this game, everyone leaves the room except for 2 people. One person comes up with what the idea for the charade will be (such as "scoring the winning touchdown" or "being dumped by your boyfriend/girlfriend"). They tell the other person, whose job it will be to act it out.

Call in one person from outside. Have the person whose job it was to act, act out the scene without words. They can only do it once. The person who came in will act it out as best they can for the next person.

One by one, have people come in and see the person who entered before them act out the scene -- which may become quite different from how it started, just as the phrases do in a conventional game of telephone.

The last person to come in watches the person before them act and then guesses out loud what the original phrase was.

For playing this game, it's important to pick things to act out that aren't too difficult or that won't be identifiable by everyone in the group, as each person has to decide what they think they saw before acting it for the next person.

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