Sausages
1970s-present ยท UK / global
Also known as The Sausages Game
One player must answer every question with the single word 'sausages' while keeping a completely straight face, as the rest of the group asks sillier and sillier questions trying to make them laugh.
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- A Keith Johnstone-associated party and warm-up game used to teach playing seriously under pressure to corpse.
- The lone rule (answer only 'sausages') makes the real challenge not laughing, not wit.
- Questions are designed to bait a smile (for example 'what do you brush your teeth with?'), rewarding deadpan commitment.
- A classroom and family-game crossover, often the first improv game young children learn.
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