The Games of Whose Line...

Below is a mostly complete list of all the games played in the US series of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

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• 90-second Alphabet : Three performers act out a scene in which each sentence must begin with the next
  letter in the alphabet. The audience chose a letter and in 90 seconds the three performers must use each
  letter to make concentric words in a sketch.
• Action Replay : Two performers act out a scene while the other two watch wearing headphones, to prevent
  them from hearing what is being said. Afterwards, the second pair must re-enact the scene, based on the
  actions they saw, inputting new dialogue.
• African Chant : A performer sings a song about an audience member or object suggested, except the style
  is an African chant, with backup provided by the other performers.
• Animals : Two to four performers must act out a soap opera style scene as certain animals that the host
  suggests.
• Bartender : The performers take it in turns to approach a bartender, played by the fourth performer, to
  sing a problem, like, obsession etc to them. The bartender sings an answer to their problem back to them.
• Changed Letters : The performers act out a scene but must substitute a certain letter for another during
  the dialogue, as specified by the host.
• Dubbing : Two performers act out a scene with a member of the audience, whose voice is provided by a
  third performer (off camera). Sometimes a special celebrity guest is used instead of an audience member.
• Duet : two performers perform the song together as a duet, alternating verses or stanzas.
• Film Dub : Performers watch a clip from a movie or television show, which has been muted, and provide
  new dialogue, following the suggestion of a scene by the host.
• Film Noir : Two performers act out a scene in film noir, where they take it in turns to approach the camera,
  and tell everyone what's going on.
• Film, T.V., & Theatre Styles : selected performers act out a scene that, after certain periods, the host
  stops to give the performers a different style to use when the scene resumes. The suggestions are given
  by the audience.
• Foreign Film Dub : Two performers act out a scene in an attempted foreign language chosen by the
  audience while the other two performers translate (off camera).
• Greatest Hits : Two performers act as pitchmen for a compilation album of a topic decided by the audience
  and provide names and styles of songs to one or both of the other performers, who must improvise part of
  the song.
• Hats : Two pairs of two performers receive a box of random headgear and in turn use them to come up
  with examples of "the world's worst dating service videos."
• Helping Hands : Two performers act out a scene in which one cannot use his own hands. A third
  performer stands behind the handless performer and provides his hands instead, improvising to what the
  scene is and what the handless performer is saying.
• Hoedown : The four performers individually sing a hoedown about a chosen subject by the audience.
  Colin Mochrie performs third and Ryan Stiles performs last.

 

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• Hollywood Director : Three performers improvise a scene provided by the host. The fourth performer
  (usually Colin Mochrie) interrupts as the "director" periodically to provide new styles to be used in the scene.
• If You Know What I Mean : Several performers improvise a scene in which they make up as many
  ambiguous euphemisms as they can, ending each one with “If you know what I mean” or something similar
  to emphasise ambiguousness.
• Improbable Mission : Two performers (most often Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie) are secret agents. A
  third performer (often Greg Proops) is the voice on the tape, who gives them their assignment which is most
  often a simple mundane task.
• Infomercial : Two performers create an infomercial to sell products for a personal problem suggested by
  the audience using only random items given to them in a box.
• Irish Drinking Song : The four performers sing an Irish drinking song one line at a time about a given
  subject. Four verses are sung with the next performer in line starting each new verse.
• Let's Make a Date : One performer is the contestant on a dating show. The other three performers are
  bachelors who have certain personalities as suggested on cards given to them at the start of the sketch.
  They must reveal their quirk through their answers to the contestant's questions. The contestant then tries
  to guess the specific personalities.
• Living Scenery : Two performers act out a scene provided by the host. The other two performers stand
  in for props during the scene. Special guests are sometimes used for props.
• The Millionaire Show : The performers act out a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Style show, in which the
  performers act with certain personalities. They take the roles of the host, a contestant, a phone-a-friend
  lifeline, and an audience member lifeline, which they call upon for help with questions from the game show
  host.
• Moving People : Two performers act out a scene, but cannot move on their own. Two audience members
  move them into different positions as they act out the scene to suit them.
• Multiple Personalities : Three of the performers are given a scene to act out with three props (e.g. a
  canteen, a towel, and a knife). Each prop has a certain personality or famous person attached to it. If the
  performer is holding a certain prop they must act in the assigned personality.
• News Flash : A performer stands in front of a green screen as a reporter in the field, while two other
  performers act as studio reporters. Random footage is shown to the audience, the news anchors, and the
  viewers at home via the green screen. The studio reporters ask questions and make comments to the
  reporter to hint to what is on the green screen, after which the reporter has to guess what it was.
• Party Quirks : Three performers act as party guests with a random quirk. The fourth performer is the party
  host, who must identify the others' quirks as they arrive and interact at the party.
• Press Conference : One performer acts as a public figure who answers questions from the other performers
  guised as reporters at the conference. Only the reporters know who the public figure is; the first performer
  must figure out who he is based upon the questions asked by the reporters
• Props : Two pairs of two performers come up with quick scenes alternatively that involve a prop given to each
  pair by the host.
• Questions Only : Two performers act out a scene, while only speaking in the form of a question. Failure to
  speak in the form of a question results in the performer being buzzed out and replaced by another performer
  waiting behind.

 

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• Questionable Impressions: Two performers act out a scene while only speaking in questions. On top of
  that the performers must impersonate a certain figure: celebrity, historical, fictional etc.
• Quick Change : Performers act out a scene provided by the host. Another performer stands off camera
  and says, "Change" at various times during the scene. The performer who had the last line must then change
  that line to something else.
• Remote Control : All four performers act out four different types of television program, each dealing with
  the same topic provided by the host. At regular intervals, the host switches between performers, as if using a
  television remote control.
• Scene to Rap : All four performers act out a scene while rapping the dialogue.
• Scenes From a Hat : The four performers improvise short scenes to suggestions pulled from a hat by the
  host. The audience members wrote these suggestions before the show started.
• Show Stopping Number : Three performers act out a scene set by the host. At random times the host
  buzzes, and the last performer to speak must sing a show-stopping tune based on the line they just said.
• Song Styles : One or two performers sing a song in a style provided by the host about an audience member
  or about a subject provided by the audience.
• Song Titles : Two performers act out a scene, in a similar style to Questions Only, speaking only using song
  titles. If they do not they are buzzed out and replaced by another performer.
• Sound Effects : One performer (often Colin Mochrie) acts out a scene provided by the host, reacting to
  sound cues provided by a second performer (often Stiles). In the other, two performers act out a scene with
  sound effects provided by two audience members.
• Stand, Sit, Bend : Three performers act out a scene, but one must be standing, one must be sitting, and one
  must be bent over. Whenever one performer changes position, the others have to accommodate. It is
  sometimes played as " Stand, Sit, Lie ," where a performer must be lying down instead of being bent over.
• Superheroes : One performer is a superhero whose name is given by the audience, and is confronted with
  a crisis also provided by the audience. The other performers enter one at a time as other superheroes, each
  identifying the next entrant's superhero name. The performers must adopt this named role until they exit one
  by one.
• Themed Restaurant : Two performers (often Drew Carey instead of a performer) dine in an unusual themed
  restaurant. The other two performers display the theme as they act as waiters.
• Three-Headed Broadway Star : Three performers sing a Broadway hit song one word at a time to form a
  whole song about an audience member and their name and occupation or about an object suggested.
• Two Line Vocabulary : Three performers act out a scene provided by the host. One can say anything they
  like (often Colin Mochrie), but the others are allowed to say only two specific lines each, provided by the host.
• Weird Newscasters : One performer is the lead anchor of a news show, with the others acting as co-host,
  sports anchor, and weather anchor. The host gives each performer (except the lead anchor) a quirky
  personality that they must adopt in the scene.
• Whose Line : Two performers (often Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie) act out a scene provided by the host
  while including two random lines that were given to them. Audience members before the show provide the
  lines.
• World's Worst : The performers come to "the world's worst step" and step forward with examples of the
  world's worst example of something provided by the host.

 

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