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Actors form two lines on the sides of the stage. Two actors start in the center and one actor starts miming an action. For example, if the suggestion is playing basketball, the actor would say “I am shooting a basketball, try that on for size” followed by a repetitive throwing motion. The other actor in the center copies the same action, but has to come up with something different that could still make sense, such as “I am swatting a fly, try that on for size.” The actors go back and forth, finishing their sentence with ”try that on for size” until one of them runs out of ideas or repeats something that has already been said. The actor who ran out of ideas leaves the stage, a new actor takes their place, and a new action begins.

The first actor begins a scene as the super-villain suggested by the audience. They set up their plot for world domination. Actor two then joins the scene as the super hero destined to thwart them. The super villain is charged with coming up with traps, obstacles, or problems for the hero which requires the hero to think on their feet and use objects they have in their utility belt to overcome the obstacles until they can defeat the villain.

Actors in the scene are performers for a children's educational television show presenting on the topic suggested by the audience. The actors can make use of other people not in the scene as special guests, puppets, or whatever contrivances they'd like to incorporate to their scene.

One actor portrays the owner of a repair shop and gets suggestions for items and how they could be broken from the audience while the other actors leave the room. One at a time, the other actors return to have their item repaired guessing at what that item is and how it might be broken. The shop owner drops hints as well.

In this game, two actors are on a date and a third actor is their server. One of the actors on the date is sent out of the room while the audience assigns a good trait for a date, (example: gives money to charity, rescues puppies, builds homes for the homeless) and a negative trait (example: was arrested for public urination, stole their roommate’s mail, believe the earth is flat). Once the traits are assigned that actor leaves the room and new traits are assigned to the other actor. The waiter knows both traits for both actors. During the scene the actors on the date try to boast about their achievements without making them obvious, while the waiter enters the scene at various intervals to drop hints about the negative traits. At the end of the scene, the actors decide if there will be a second date based on what they’ve learned.

Two actors begin sitting on stage, one is the host of the news who begins the show in a fashion establishing the news of the day, usually with a pun. The acting host then names their co-anchor who has a special personality trait either suggested by the audience or written down for them. After a moment, the acting host then goes to the weather and the actor playing the weathercaster goes over the weather for the week while displaying their unique traits. Next is the sportscaster who does the same.

A line is formed at the back of the stage. The first actor starts on stage by acting out an activity. The next actor enters and asks “What are you doing?” The first actor says a completely different activity that they are NOT doing and goes to the back of the line. The second actor begins acting out the activity that the first actor said they were doing, and the process is repeated when the next person in line asks “What are you doing?” For example, if the first actor is walking a dog, they could respond to the question by saying “I’m skydiving.” The next actor then skydives.

This is a scene game in which one actor is sent out of the room while the other actors in the scene are assigned special actions that they will do whenever certain words are spoken by the actor who isn't currently in the room. Ideally, the words chosen will be likely spoken frequently during the scene related to the action. Other options include some common words such as, "okay," "yes," or one of the actors' names. If you really want to be mean you could choose the word, "um!" Actions could involve something physical for an obvious reaction, narrative, to change the scene, or anything else.

Once all actors have an action and a word, the actor outside of the room is brought back in and all the actors perform the scene. Any time the select actor uses a trigger word the corresponding actor performs that action immediately.

Actors form a line along the back of the stage and are given a noun, occupation, etc. by the host. One at a time, players step forward to deliver a one liner inspired by the WORST example of the suggestion, and then return to their place in the line. Players continue delivering one liners until a new suggestion is given or the host ends the game.

Actor A leaves the play area. Host assigns a different item to each of the three remaining actors. Actors then assume the physicality of the object. Actor A returns, and goes up to each actor individually. When Actor A taps another Actor, the item actor begins to describe themselves, telling a story of their past use. Generally, Actor A will go to each item twice. The game ends with the host prompting Actor A to correctly guess the three objects, and then choose which item they would like to take home with them.