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Click Bang you`re dead
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
A guessing game with a hidden rule: the leader points around the circle saying 'click' or 'bang' in a way that suggests a pattern, then declares someone dead. The secret is that it is whoever speaks first after the pointing stops. Play continues until people work it out.
Hold with care
- A game with a hidden rule leaves some people knowing and some not for as long as it runs; the source's design does give those who work it out a way to demonstrate it rather than simply tell
- The 'dead' framing is decorative here — nobody is eliminated — but the language is worth checking against the group
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- attention-training, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- improvencyclopedia.org/games/Click_Bang_you`re_dead.html — Improv Encyclopedia, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Contributed to Improv Encyclopedia by Jeannie Smith (credited on the game page) — Improvisational theatre
In this directory via Improv Encyclopedia
status: checked · added 2026-08-31