slack associations rules
Secretly pick a character (could be book / movie / tv / historical, but you specify which one)
Then people ask you questions about your associations with said character, and you answer with what first comes to mind. “No association” is an acceptable answer (far better than a far-fetched association).
You can ask about planet, weather, friends, hobbies, etc - anything that can be considered a category (so an association with "age" would be "young", "middle-aged", "ancient", etc, but not "47 years old")
the game may look something like this, from the perspective of the guessers:
Animal? Bear (does he have a pet bear? is he an actual bear? does he look like a bear? has a bear as his spirit animal? is it DiCaprio and did the clue-giver just watch Revenant?)
Color? Brown (brown hair? or is he african-american? or maybe it's a brown bear? or wears a brown coat? or his horse is particularly brown? or some sort of poop association?)
Vice? Gluttony (probably not DiCaprio... but wait, a hungry brown bear... let's check)
Material? Plush (aha! out of context, it might be that he likes plush, or is made of plush, or reminds the clue-giver of a stuffed animal, or any of a number of things, but at this point it's fairly obvious that the character's best friend is a real pig)
generally it is preferable to reveal your understanding by asking a question which narrows your target to one easily recognizable feature, rather than shouting out possible answers.
Then people ask you questions about your associations with said character, and you answer with what first comes to mind. “No association” is an acceptable answer (far better than a far-fetched association).
You can ask about planet, weather, friends, hobbies, etc - anything that can be considered a category (so an association with "age" would be "young", "middle-aged", "ancient", etc, but not "47 years old")
the game may look something like this, from the perspective of the guessers:
Animal? Bear (does he have a pet bear? is he an actual bear? does he look like a bear? has a bear as his spirit animal? is it DiCaprio and did the clue-giver just watch Revenant?)
Color? Brown (brown hair? or is he african-american? or maybe it's a brown bear? or wears a brown coat? or his horse is particularly brown? or some sort of poop association?)
Vice? Gluttony (probably not DiCaprio... but wait, a hungry brown bear... let's check)
Material? Plush (aha! out of context, it might be that he likes plush, or is made of plush, or reminds the clue-giver of a stuffed animal, or any of a number of things, but at this point it's fairly obvious that the character's best friend is a real pig)
generally it is preferable to reveal your understanding by asking a question which narrows your target to one easily recognizable feature, rather than shouting out possible answers.