How to Play "Throw the Story" Party Game

Video Transcript

"Hi, I am Teri Lynne and I am here on behalf of Expert Village. And, in this segment we are going to do a game called "Throw the Story". Now this is a great game to play after you've opened all your gifts on Christmas Day, you've had a big meal and you pretty full and you don't want to do any running around and maybe you want the kids to calm down a bit, so you can get the whole family around in a circle and do a nice calm game. It brings back focus and attention to a group. It is a great improvisation game, you are making stuff up on the spot. You need a minimum of two people for this game, but there is no maximum, you can play this with a large group or a big family if you have one. David is going to play this game with me. We are going to do a 2-person version. But all that really happens is when a person starts telling a story and anytime that they feel they want to stop, they are just going to point at someone else in the group and they are going to pickup where the other person left off. You can say as much or little as you want to add to the story. And if you really can't think of anything, you are allowed to say "pass" and then they just go to someone else in the circle. Are you ready? Once a little baby fish and his papa were swimming along the reef when a current came by and the little baby fish got swept away, separated from papa fish. And the little baby fish was swimming and swimming as hard as he could to try to get back to papa, but he just kept getting further and further and further. Soon it wound up at a very dangerous part of the reef called "Sharks Alley? and there all kinds of very dangerous fish, like the great white shark was swimming around. And all of a sudden, one of those great white sharks that we were just talking about, came around the side of a shipwreck and spotted the little baby fish and it was very hungry. And just as it was about the clamp its massive jaws around the hapless fish, then it got a toothache. And so, it couldn't bite or chew and it just screamed out in pain, but the little fish said, "Oh, I took dentistry school, I might be able to help you, Big Fish, Big Shark". So, he pulled out of his back pocket a little gauze and wrapped it around the big shark's head and the two went off in the sunset as friends forevermore. The End. And that's how you play "Throw the Story"."