Charades Standard Signals: PERSON PLAY TITLE EVENT Stand with hands on hips. Place both hands out, palms facing Point to your wrist as if you were the audience and touching at the wearing a watch. POEM thumbs, and draw them apart like The player pretends to hold a paper COMPUTER GAME a theater curtain. and pretends to read the poem. Using both hands move your thumbs like you are using a game pad. BOOK TITLE TV SHOW Draw a rectangle to outline a TV screen. Unfold your hands as if they were WEBSITE a book. QUOTE OR PHRASE Hold one hand out, palm down, Make quotation marks in the air with horizontal to the ground, as if holding MOVIE TITLE Pretend to crank an old-fashioned your fingers. a computer mouse. Make a sweeping motion side to side, then stop and tap movie camera. LOCATION index finger as if “clicking”. Make a circle with one hand, then point SONG TITLE Pretend to sing. to it, as if pointing to a dot on a map. Characteristics of a word or phrase: NUMBER OF WORDS IN THE CHARADE SHORTER VERSION OF A LETTER OF THE ALPHABET Hold up the corresponding number Do a “karate chop” with your hand. Move your hand in a chopping motion of fingers. toward your arm (near the top of your PLURAL forearm if the letter is near the beginning WHICH WORD YOU ARE WORKING ON Link your little fingers. of the alphabet, and near the bottom of Hold up the number of fingers again. PAST TENSE your arm if the letter is near the end of NUMBER OF SYLLABLES IN THE WORD Wave your hand over your shoulder the alphabet). Lay the number of fingers on your arm. toward your back. STOP! WORK ON SOMETHING ELSE WHICH SYLLABLE YOU ARE ON OPPOSITE Hold both arms out in front of you, Lay the number of fingers on your Form each hand into a hitchhiker’s palms of your hands waving, facing arm again. thumb signal and point them in your teammates, while simultaneously opposite directions. LENGTH OF WORD shaking your head, eyes closed. Make a “little” or “big” sign as if you THE ENTIRE CONCEPT SOMEONE HAS GUESSED PART OF were measuring a fish. Sweep your arms through the air THE CHARADE CORRECTLY making big brackets. SOUNDS LIKE OR RHYMES WITH Point at your nose with one hand, Cup one hand behind an ear, or pull CLOSE, KEEP GUESSING! while pointing at the person with on your earlobe. Frantically wave your hands about to your other hand. keep the guesses coming, or pretend to LONGER VERSION OF fan yourself, as if to say “getting hotter”. Pretend to stretch a piece of elastic. Common Smaller Words: “A” steeple index fingers together. “THAT” make a “T” with your index “OR” pretend to paddle a canoe. fingers, followed by one flattened hand “I” point at your eye, or your chest. “ON” make your index finger leap on to tapping your head for “hat”. Following the palm of your other hand. Reverse “THE” make a “T” sign with your this with the “opposite” sign indicates this gesture to indicate “Off.” index fingers. the word “This.” www.outsetmedia.com.