telephone charades
I played this game with a group of girls aged 12-14, and it was a real hit.
I got the idea from Group Games.com, but modified it a little to prevent cheating.
You need a group of people- I had 10, probably 15 and 5 are the upper and lower limits respectively. You also need a room and a corridor (or another room.) You also need good charade ideas. The best charades involve several actions, are a bit silly (“driving” was a bit easy) and involve more than just the hands.
Start everyone outside the room in the corridor. The first person thinks up a charade, then gets the next person from outside the room. Now inside, the first person performs the charade. Then the second person gets the next person from outside the room, performs the charade (no one guesses the charade yet) in the room (out of sight from the other players). So it continues, until you get to the last player. The last player then guesses the charade. If they don’t get it, go backwards through the players to see where the charade changed beyond recognition.
Optional scoring system: for 10 players, give 10 points for a correct guess at the last player, -1 for each player back through the line, so you get 0 points if no one guesses the charade. This might work well to split a larger group into smaller teams.
so.. chinese whispers with body language?
Ah, that’s right- telephone is the new PC name for chinese whispers.