How to Play the Improv Alphabet Game

The Alphabet Game is a quick and easy warm-up for other games and is also a great crowd-pleaser. Read on to learn how to play it correctly.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Two or three players

1. Select the players. This game is best played with 2 or 3 people.

2. Ask the audience for a letter from the alphabet. The first word from the first person who speaks must begin with this letter.

3. Ask the audience for another suggestion. This suggestion can be a location, historical time period, favorite food--anything. The suggestion will serve as inspiration for the players to start their scene.

4. Using the audience suggestion as a guide, the players will start their scene. The first word of the first sentence that is spoken must start with the letter the audience suggested.

5. The next player who speaks must use the following letter to begin their first sentence. For example. If the audience suggestion was "M," the first word that the first player speaks must begin with the letter M. When a new player speaks, that player must begin what they say with the letter "N" and so forth through the alphabet.

6. Players can use more than one sentence when it's their turn to talk. However the first sentence they say on each new turn must begin with the subsequent letter of the alphabet.

7. The game is done when the players get to the letter that precedes the letter that the audience suggested.