Expert Interview
Expert Interview is a variant of the Expert game in which a host conducts a formal interview with one or more improvised experts. The interview format allows for follow-up questions and deeper exploration of the expert's absurd claims. The game rewards the host's ability to ask grounding questions and the expert's ability to elaborate with increasing specificity.
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Expert
Expert is a short-form game in which a performer plays a world-renowned authority on a topic suggested by the audience, fielding questions with total confidence regardless of actual knowledge. The comedy emerges from the contrast between the character's unwavering certainty and the absurdity of the claims. Scene partners or audience members ask questions, and the expert responds with authoritative detail, treating every answer as established fact. The game rewards commitment, verbal fluency, and the willingness to build elaborate fictions without hesitation.
Reverse Trivial Pursuit
Reverse Trivial Pursuit is a game in which performers are given the answer and must improvise a plausible question that fits. The challenge increases as the answers become more obscure or specific. The game rewards quick wit, confident delivery, and the ability to frame any statement as a logical response to an unlikely query.
Trivial Pursuit
Trivial Pursuit is a game show-style game in which performers must answer trivia questions and then perform scenes inspired by the topics. The combination of knowledge and improvisation creates a unique competitive format. The game rewards both broad general knowledge and the ability to transform factual content into entertaining performance.
Ted Talks
Ted Talks is a short-form game in which a performer delivers an improvised presentation in the style of a TED Talk on an audience-suggested topic. Other players may provide slides, demonstrations, or audience participation. The game rewards confident public speaking, the ability to sound authoritative on any subject, and the comedic gap between expertise and ignorance.
Job Interview
Job Interview is a scene game in which one or more performers audition for a position while endowed with secret traits, habits, or identities that the interviewer must guess. The interview setting provides built-in status dynamics, clear stakes, and a familiar social ritual that audiences instantly recognize. The game rewards clear character physicalization, the ability to embed clues through behavior rather than exposition, and the comedy that emerges when inappropriate qualities collide with a formal setting.
Three Headed Expert
Three Headed Expert is a short-form game in which three performers stand side by side and answer questions as a single expert, each speaking one word at a time to form coherent sentences. The audience suggests the expert's field of expertise. The game demands extreme listening and rewards the ability to follow collective sentence construction without steering.
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