Draw It Behind
Somebody draws a shape on your back. You draw what you felt on theirs.
People stand in lines facing away from the screen. Only the person at the back of each line turns to see a shape, then draws it with a finger on the back in front, and it travels up the line to the front, where it gets drawn for real. What arrives is never what was sent, and the line watching its own game of telephone go wrong is the funny part.
Before anything about instructions, handovers or how detail gets lost — and when a room is happy with light contact.
Props: Something to draw the final shape on — a flipchart or a whiteboard
Run this when…
If none of these is your room, pick another.Before a session on briefs, handovers or specifications
A group who work in a chain and pass work along
Any room that will enjoy watching a message degrade
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- Where
- Needs a room
- Props
- Something to draw the final shape on — a flipchart or a whiteboard
- Big screen
- Required
- Teams
- Individual only