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Blind Line Up
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharednone
The group has to sort itself into an order — by height, by birthday — with everyone's eyes closed and nobody allowed to speak. Whatever strategy emerges has to emerge through touch and patience.
Hold with care
- Eyes closed and silent in a moving group means unavoidable and unsighted physical contact
- The source warns that sorting criteria the group cannot know — its own example is 'order of mental health' — do not work here and can land badly; it offers that as a practical note rather than a caution, and it is worth reading as both
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- somatic-awareness, systems-sensing
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- improvencyclopedia.org/games/Blind_Line_Up.html — Improv Encyclopedia, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
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Origin
Unattributed; compiled by Improv Encyclopedia — Improvisational theatre
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status: checked · added 2026-08-31