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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