These are the games. This list of improv structures is dedicated to games that could appear in a show designed for an audience. Each handle could be announced as such and linked to an ask for, or the handles could be un-announced and slid into ongoing scenes. Handles are destructive to developing ones improv skills and should be recognised for what they are. Handles are designed to force improvisers into situations that will most likely entertain an audience, and if overused can blunt the important more natural and organic improv skills.
- Actor’s Nightmare
- Alien, Tiger, Cow Elimination
- Alphabet Game
- Animal Characters
- Arms Expert
- Backwards Scene
- Booth Hell
- Categories-Handle
- Chain Mystery Endowment
- Conducted Story-Back
- Conducted Story-Channels
- Conducted Story-Die
- Conducted Story-Show
- Counting Game
- Crime Scene Improvisation
- Day In the Life
- Die Game
- Ding Dong
- Dubbing
- Dubbing-Cross
- Dubbing-Low Budget
- Dubbing-Reverse
- Dubbing-Three Way
- Emotional Symphony
- Emotional Transfer
- Emotional Zones
- Endowments
- Endowments-Crime Scene
- Endowments-Party
- Endowments-Repair Shop
- Entrances and Exits
- Fairy Tale-In A Minute
- Fairy Tale-Modern
- Freeze
- Freeze-Endowment
- Freeze-For All
- Freeze-Space Jump
- Genre Zones
- Gibberish-Switch
- Half Life
- Half Space
- Historical Scene
- Hitch Hiker
- Line Gag-185
- Line Gag-Epitaphs
- Line Gag-Jeopardy
- Line Gag-Lovers
- Line Gag-Offspring
- Line Gag-Props
- Line Gag-World’s Worst
- Meanwhile
- Montage
- More or Less
- Movie In A Minute
- Musical
- No Laughs Scene
- Object Monologue
- Open Scene-Handle
- Options
- Options-Container
- Options-Paper Chase
- Options-Pillars
- Options-Retail Therapy
- Options-Roller Coaster
- Options-Shopping List
- Options-Um Err
- Oscar Moment
- Party Quirks
- Puppeteer
- Puppets
- Radio Play
- Remote Controller
- Scene In Verse
- Scene Three Ways
- Scene To Music
- Shakespeare
- Should Have Said
- Silent Scene
- Sit, Stand, Kneel Lie Down
- Slide Show
- Soliloquy
- Song
- Song-Do Ron Ron
- Song-Madrigal
- Song-Mangled Madrigal
- Song-Plain Chant
- Sound Effects
- Speak In One Voice
- Split Environments
- Stage Directions
- Status Transfer
- Stunt Doubles
- Subconscious Scene
- Superhero Eulogy
- Superhero Helper
- Survivor
- Switch Characters
- Three Rules
- Touch To Talk
- Translation-Film
- Translation-Future In Laws
- Translation-Healthcare
- Translation-Opera
- Translation-Poem
- Typewriter
- Using the Last Scene
- Using the Last Sentence
- Using the Last Word
- What Happens Next?
- Word At A Time Convo
- Word At A Time Expert
- Word At A Time Story