How to Play the Secret Word Improv Game

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"JAYNE ENTWISTLE: I'm Jayne Entwistle with expertvillage.com. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: And I'm Andrew Stubblefield. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: We're playing some of our favorite improv games for you. This game is called secret word on the back. Now, normally, what would happen is the audience would give two words while we were out of the room. They would be written down on pieces of paper and then they would be taped to our backs. For the sake of this, Andrew has written a word that I have no idea what it is on my back and I have written a word on Andrew's back, and we've got to try and get each other to guess what it is. And accepting offers, that we talked about earlier, is crucial is in this game--not to block but to accept everything so we can guess what the word is. So let's show the audience what our words are. Turn around. All right? And let's get started. And for the sake of this, how about we are in a factory? Boy, I don't know, these--working these double shifts is killing me. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Oh, tell me about it. So, how long you've been working here at the factory for animal food? JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Oh, I've been here about ten years. Could you pass me that beaker please? All right. Okay. Boy, this stuff, it just starts to get to me. The smell, it's so sickly sweet, you know? And it's just--it always--it puts these ideas in my head, like I wish I wasn't here. I wish I was in some fancy place. How come I can't go to some fancy place? Near the water maybe with some sand. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Yeah, I know. I mean, just being here--it gets so cold sometimes. I mean, I just gotta wear mittens. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: I hate it when it snows. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Yeah. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: And the igloos that we have to live in...drives me crazy. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Yeah. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: It makes me want to be in that warm place, sipping on a sweet drink, something kind of tropical. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Like a Mai Tai. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Close. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Like a Pina Colada. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Oh, what is that that's in the Pina Colada? ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Coconuts. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: And what else? ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Some other fruits that I don't know the names of. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Dang it. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: I'm just a factory worker. I don't know anything about that. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Well, now, you were talking about the... ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Mittens, yeah. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: ...mittens. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: I'm sorry, you let the cat out of the back. So, how far long are the babies? JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Oh, I'd say about six months. I'm having triplets, you know. I've been knitting them some booties. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Well, that's nice, yep. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Well, listen, I've got to go on my lunch break now. Don't work too hard. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: All right, take care. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Okay. Well, I don't know if we guessed each other's word or not. So I'm guessing that my word was mittens? ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Close. It was kitten. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Kitten! What was my word? ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Pineapple? JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Yes. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Oh, there you go. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: Very good. Very good, Andrew. Yes. Your word, indeed, was pineapple. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: And of course, kitten. JAYNE ENTWISTLE: So that is secret word on the back."