Where are we?

This is a Game. It is in the following categories:

• Endowment

• Limitations

• Look and Listen

• Performance

• Status

Card Status

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How it Works

Excellent Status game.

4 players. Ask an audience member to pick 4 cards out of a deck, and attach a card to each player's forehead, so that players can see each other's card, but not their own. Use a rubber band or a piece of string for that.

The idea is to play a scene, in which the status order of the characters is defined by the cards. Evidently, players don't know their own status, so the other players will have to endow them.

Notes

Set up a location where status is important. Examples would be a Royal Palace or a highly organized bureaucracy (the White House ?).

Variations

• players can only see their own card, but not the others'
• give players multiple cards, and let them switch cards in the middle of the scene. Statuses (statii ??) should change accordingly.
• as an exercise, let players play a scene and then ask them to line up in status order to see if they 'got' their status right.

* You have to earn your happy endings --- Del Close