Pair Association

The game works from four people on, but it's clearly more fun with more people.

The players form a circle. Two players, picked at random, step into the middle of the circle. The remaining ones around the outside count down from three to one. On "one" the two players in the middle of the circle simultaneously say a term that spontaneously occurs to them; afterwards they step back into the circle among the others. Now everyone tries, in their head, to associate a term that has to do with BOTH of the two terms just said. As soon as someone has thought of a term, they step into the inside of the circle. When two are standing in the middle, the ones remaining outside again count down to one. On "one" the two players in the middle of the circle simultaneously say the term they each just associated in their heads. If those are two different terms, then those two also step back into the circle among the others. The game continues with new associations as described, until the following happens: when at some point two players standing inside the circle had and spoke the same association, the joy is great and it starts again with new terms.

Example:

The players in the middle simultaneously say:

"Book" and "Blood"

After that, two players who are then standing inside the circle say their association to "Book" and "Blood":

"Medical studies" and "Cut wound"

Since the terms don't match, there is a next round. Here, two other players inside the circle now simultaneously say:

"Plaster".

• Joy and end -

Tips and notes

• Since the simultaneously spoken terms are often not all understood by the others, the two in the circle then repeat once more, one after the other, the term they just said.
• The follow-up associations therefore arise already while one is still standing in the outer circle, but are only spoken aloud once one is standing in the middle. They are thus not, as in the first round, immediately spontaneous after the "one".