Three-Headed Expert
Three players stand shoulder to shoulder as a single expert, answering the audience's questions one word each, in turn, building sentences no one controls alone. The three-headed being always agrees with itself — it never contradicts, it only adds. Punctuation and full stops are up for grabs too. It's a group-mind and listening drill of the highest order. Nobody can steer the sentence, so everyone must offer the most obvious, useful next word and let the meaning emerge between them. It teaches surrender of authorship — the same letting-go that makes an ensemble think as one on stage.
🎓 Tips
One word each, truly — no cheating two words in. The constraint is the whole exercise, and it forces real listening. Coach the obvious word, not the clever swerve. The sentence only makes sense if each player serves what came before. Keep questions concrete and playful. Abstract prompts stall the head — "what's your favourite sandwich?" beats "what is love?".
Spotted a mistake, a missing variant, a better way to run it? Change it.