I’m generally adding at least one new improv game each week, so here’s a quick way to track down a specific game that might have been of interest. I’ll strive to keep this updated as I go! You can also search my blog using the search tool below.
Those game titles without hyperlinks are connected to blog posts that are currently in development or unpublished (but I’ve written at least a draft already, I promise!) If you’re looking for an in-progress index for my “A to Z” of improv series, you can find that here.
- Act Harder
- Actor’s Nightmare
- Ad Campaign
- Advance/Extend Stories
- Alliances
- All Together Now
- Alphabet Game
- Angel and Devil
- Animal Kingdom
- Arms Expert (see Expert Double Figures)
- Asides
- Bad Extra
- Bad Rap
- Ballet
- Because
- Bell’s Kitchen
- Beneath the Line
- Best and Worst
- Blind Typewriter (see Typewriter)
- Booth Torture
- Bus Stop
- CAD Bell
- Camera, Narrator, Actor, Actor
- Chameleon (see Emotions)
- Chapters
- Character Walk
- Chatterbox
- Commercial
- Conducted Freeze Tag
- Conscience
- Contact
- Cooperation/Noncooperation Scene
- Counting Circle
- Creation Myth Scene
- Crime Endowment
- Da Doo Ron Ron
- Day in the Life
- Death in a Minute
- Demonstration Video
- Diamond Dance
- Dimestore Detective (see Narrator)
- Ding (see Should’ve Said)
- Double Blind Double Speak (see Double Speak)
- Double Double Speak (see Double Speak)
- Double Speak
- Double Typewriter (see Typewriter)
- Emotional Door
- Emotional Replay (See Replay)
- Emotional Rollercoaster (see Emotions)
- Emotional Zones (see Zones)
- Emotions
- Endowment Circle
- Entrances and Exits
- Environmental Freeze Tag
- Escalating Scene
- Expert Double Figures
- Eye Contact
- Famous Last Words
- Fantasy Scene
- First Line, Last Line
- Focus Ball
- Foreign Movie (see Subtitles)
- Fortunately/Unfortunately
- Four Sentence Story
- Four Square Relationships
- Freeze Frame
- From an Object’s Point of View
- Fluid Sculptures
- Furniture
- Game Lab
- Genre Replay (see Replay)
- Genre Rollercoaster
- Get Them To…
- Gibberish Job Mime
- Gibberish Scene
- Gibberish Typewriter (see Typewriter)
- Go
- Good, Bad, Worst Advice
- Heightening Circle
- Here Comes the Bus
- Here They Come
- Hesitation Speech
- High Card
- Home Shopping Network
- Identity Circle
- Image Building
- Inappropriate Behavior
- In A, With A, While A…
- Inner Monologue (see Inner Monosong)
- Inner Monosong
- Invisibility Scene
- It’s Tuesday
- Justify Circle
- Key Sound (see Key Word)
- Key Word
- Know-It-All
- La Ronde
- Laugh and Go
- Levels (see Stand, Sit, Kneel, Lie)
- Lotus Monologues
- Machines
- Mantras
- Many Objects
- Most Scenes in a Minute
- Moving Bodies
- My Movie
- Naïve Expert
- Name Circle
- Narrative Collage (see Perspectives)
- Narrator
- Neighbors
- New Choice
- Nicer Than You
- Obstacle Race
- One-Downing
- One-Upping (see One-Downing)
- One-Voice Expert
- On the Back Word Endowments
- Opera Moment
- Options
- Oscar-Winning Moments
- Page of Play (see Actor’s Nightmare)
- Pan Left, Pan Right
- Passion Statements
- Perspectives
- Phonebank
- Pick-Up Lines
- Player Interview
- Point/Counterpoint
- Pop-Up Story Book
- Prologue
- Puppets (see Moving Bodies)
- Questions Only
- Radio Play
- Raise the Stakes
- Rashomon
- Reiterate/Repeat
- Relay Entrances and Exits
- Replay
- Rhyme Fire-Line
- Ritual Scene
- Rollercoaster (see Genre Rollercoaster)
- Room at the Inn
- Rule Breaker
- Scene Ending in I Love You
- Scene in the Audience
- Scene Three Ways (see Replay)
- Scene Without Questions
- Sculptor Pairs
- Sentences
- Sequence Game
- Shared Story
- Should’ve Said
- Simultaneous Clap
- Slide Show (see Freeze Frame)
- Slow Motion War
- Song Cue
- Soundtrack
- Speak in Turn
- Stage Directions (see They Said, They Said)
- Stand, Sit, Kneel, Lie
- Starting in the Middle
- Status Swap
- Stop and Go
- Stop! Think!
- Story Hot Spot
- Story, Story Die
- Subtitles
- Tag-Team Monologue
- Tag-Team Song
- Tag Typewriter (see Typewriter)
- Text/Subtext
- That’s Right Experts
- The Café
- Theme Scenes
- They Said, They Said
- Three Sentence Scenes
- Three Through the Door
- Through the Ages (see Replay)
- Touch to Talk (see Contact)
- Two Scenes
- Typewriter
- Verbal Freeze Tag
- What Are You Doing?
- Word Association
- Word Association Reincorporation Story
- Word at a Time Crime
- Word at a Time Story
- Word Ball (see Word Association)
- Work Song
- World’s Worst
- Yes Party
- You Look…
- Zones
Feel free to email me here if you have a suggestion, or perhaps a game or skill you’d like me to consider for a future post. I’d also love to know if you know a game by another name.
Cheers, David Charles.
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