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10 Fingers
Also known as: Fingerfrågor
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Everyone holds up ten fingers and takes turns making a yes/no statement about themselves — 'I have a cat', 'I have never stolen anything'. Anyone who cannot answer yes drops a finger. What the group learns about each other is the whole output; the last person with a finger up nominally wins.
Hold with care
- Players write their own statements, so the depth is set in the room; the source's own examples run from owning a cat to never having stolen anything
- Answers are given publicly and by a physical tell, so declining to answer is visible — there is no quiet pass in the rules as written
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- improvencyclopedia.org/games/10_Fingers.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
In this directory via Improv Encyclopedia · Dramaövningar.se
Related: Anyone who... (alternative-to)
status: checked · added 2026-08-31