Nonverbal Card Game
Each card represents a different emotion. There are 4-5 players. Each gets dealt 5 cards. The goal of the game is to get rid of all your cards. You get rid of your card by successfully acting out the emotion that your cards represent or by successfully guessing the emotions being acted by others. Those not in the game, observers, play along by noting nonverbal cues and guessing at emotions. People can only talk (i.e. use words) at the times indicated below.
Playing the Game
The dealer deals out 5 cards to each player. Players normally group similar cards together (all the aces, all the two’s, all the three’s. The first player (to left of dealer), chooses one of the emotions/cards in her/his hand. The player puts all the cards presenting that emotion face down in from of her/him and then acts out the emotion. The other players try to silently guess what the emotion is. If they have the card representing that emotion, they put it face down. Observers note the nonverbal cues and also guess at the emotion. When everyone is ready, the cards are turned over and everyone guessing correctly gives up their card. If anyone guesses correctly, the player who acted the emotion out gives up their card, too. For wrong guesses, people take another card. If nobody guesses, the rest of the class votes and if the majority agrees with the player, s/he turns in the card(s) being played.