He Said She Said

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He Said She Said

Description

Excellent game to show how Endowment works. 2 players; each player will state the action the other player must perform, followed by his own line.

Example:

1: "I want a divorce"
2: "She said, while grabbing a knife from the kitchen table." At this point player 1 needs to take a knife. Player 2 continues with his own line. "Sure Honey"
1: "He said, while turning to the sports page of the paper". Now, it`s quite clear that player 2 should be paying more attention to the paper than to his wife. Player 1 continues with her own line. "You`re not listening to me"
and so on.

Players refer to each other as `he` and `she`, and endow each other with the next action to take. This can be quite funny, if you endow your partner to do crazy or not-so-nice things to you (or to themselves, but that`s would not be Mr. Nice Guy ).

Variations

Can be done with 4 players: 2 provide the lines, and the 2 others provide the `directions` - each director provides the action for one of the 2 talkers.

Can also be one with 3 players: one provides directions and both other players do their own dialogs.

Notes

Keep the action do-able and active. Making someone else `think about something` is hard to play, and not very active. Also known as He Said While She.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled --- Horatius