Exquisite Corpse

Here’s one I’ll try with my writing students.

Exquisite Corpse is so famous Andrei Codrescu named his journal of new writing after it.  How to play?  Three or more players sit around a table, each equipped with paper and pen.  Each writes on cue a particular grammatical structure (adjective, noun, verb, adverb, and so forth), then folds the paper over, and passes it on.  Once all the parts have been written, the paper is unfolded and read.  You don’t know what sequence you’re writing into (sound like life itself?), and you cannot control where a piece is going.
The game got its name from one of the first “keepers”:  “the exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine.”  Its “formula” was:  article, adjective, noun, adverb, verb (one that takes a direct object), article, adjective, noun.    Playing the game with a group for a number of rounds will produce increasingly good results as the group “learns” how to affect the outcomes.

I’ll report back later with my findings.