Copycats

Games

In Copycats, each team takes turns playing a series of rounds. Team members sit in separate cubicles with sliding doors between them. Every player gets ten seconds to pass along what’s on a card. The rounds are Mime Time, where a player acts out an action like “Flipping a pancake” or “Clipping Your Toenails”; Quick on the Draw, where a player quickly sketches an object on a whiteboard; and the Music Round, where a player performs a tune on a kazoo or mouths the words clearly to the next teammate.

The first team member receives the item to be identified and communicates it to the second, who passes it to the third, and so on down the line. The sixth and final player is asked what was originally mimed, drawn, or played. A correct answer earns 50 points. If wrong, the remaining players are asked in order, with the possible score dropping by 10 points for each incorrect guess.

The team that wins Mime Time—or a rock-paper-scissors tiebreaker if needed—goes first in the physical challenge. The other team plays its physical challenge after Quick on the Draw.