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Shootout
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Cowboy elimination played on names: a name is called, that person drops, and their two neighbours shoot at each other. Whoever is slower dies, and if the named player does not drop fast enough they die instead. It ends with the last two back to back, walking apart until a dropped coin starts the duel.
Hold with care
- Mimed shooting at other people, sustained for the whole game and culminating in a duel — not a neutral frame in every room or every country
- Players are eliminated one at a time
- The source asks for grueling death sounds, which raises the volume and the theatricality of dying
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- A coin or keyring to drop for the final duel
- Mechanisms
- attention-training
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- improvencyclopedia.org/games/Shootout.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