little party game I created on the fly

[Nick]

So I was at a friends place (loft in Brooklyn) for a birthday party a year ago, now what I did to pass the time, along with drinking, was this...

Taking the slate cheese plate a piece of chalk I had in my pocket (not sure how this aligned but it did)... I sectioned the slate off into 16 squares and over the night I passed it around to people saying this:

"Draw something in one box, anything that pops into your mind, and leave your initials."

I had some mixed resulted but they were all basically positive, at the end of the night those 16 I selected to draw on the cheese plate now had a nice picture souvenir.



Would you say this was somewhat of an INTP thought... asking randomness to produce randomness with a wide varying of diversity.

People enjoyed the mild attraction, I had to selectively choose 16 people out of ~40 to add to the slate...

but my INTP mind simply loves A. the randomness and B. the wide varying sources that produced it.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

I like how you managed to engage people in something what can be called "communal" creativity.

I have at some times offered groups of people in the same situation and/or place the entertainment in the form of storytelling. People tended to explore their imaginations with me because I was the alternative to boredom, while they were mine alternative to the boredom of my own mind, which sometimes is unable to find enough content for itself to occupy.

What I like the most is that seemingly not-cooperative individuals and different personalities can be incorporated into creating a common story or a theme.

Another thing is that the results are rich and full of life (authenticity) simply because of the varying perspectives and motivations of these individuals.

 

[Variform]

At a ceramics class we did a community activity once, where we all got a piece of clay, got a limited time to work on it and then pass it on to the next person. You cold do with it what you wanted. The results were surprising and funny.

 

[Base groove]

It is rewarding for us to engage other people on that level, probably in part because the opportunity is comparatively rare and also due in part to how expressive it really is and how much people can learn about each other in a short time.

It fosters feelings of co-operation and group cohesion as well as individuality as these sorts of games probably get an optimal response when they have little to no restrictions or rules.

As an aside I bet it's humorous to watch SJ types suddenly fall behind the curve.