Things, Objects and Animals?
- Animal? (e.g., Dog, Aardvark)
- Animal that your spouse reminds you of?
- Favorite fruit (vegetable, meat, etc.)?
- Mode of transportation?
- New invention?
- Object that you lost/found?
- Object you might find in trunk, house, attic, kitchen, etc.?
- Poor choice of collateral?
- Quality or characteristic of a person (that you respect, like, dislike, anything)?
- Something that costs more that $X?
- Something that you bought or will buy?
- Clothing? (e.g., shirt, hat)
- Appliance?
- Something that a repair man might fix?
- Something that you looked up in the yellow pages?
- Thing having a particular characteristic? (E.g., red, cold, wet, small, tall, etc.)
- Something that you might find in X store? (E.g., Target, mall, grocery store, hardware store, etc.)
Jobs and People?
- Government job title?
- Job that you wouldn't want?
- Occupation, profession, career, jobs? (Any, yours, relatives, someone in audience, specific, general, safe, dangerous, etc.)
- Relationship between two people?
Titles, Phrases and Words?
- Bumper sticker?
- Title to a story?
- Comic book, novel, movie? (specific)
- Eleventh commandment?
- Geological phenomenon?
- Letter (H, A, etc.) and word that starts with it?
- Line from a poem/play/song?
- Natural phenomenon?
- Noun/verb/subject?
- What is the worst excuse you have heard for missing work (school, church)?
- Word that you have looked up in the dictionary?
Places?
- Department in a department store?
- Factory?
- Business?
- Non-geographical location?
- Place that you have been lost?
- Place where you might run into very unusual people?
- Place you go every day?
- Room in a house? (Mansion, castle, etc.)
- Someplace that you have never been?
- Someplace you have always wanted to visit?
- Restaurant? (e.g., McDonald's, Denny's)
Activity?
- Backyard activity?
- Dangerous activity, thing to say, etc.?
- Household chore?
- Physical activity?
- What are you planning to do on your next day off?
- Hobby? (e.g., models, coin collecting)
Other?
- A season?
- Country, continent, language?
- Fairy tale?
- Get a movie guide and have an audience member randomly pick a movie review; read aloud the plot of the movie being reviewed; that is the suggestion
- Have audience member pick prop or costume?
- Have audience member randomly pick a page and place in the yellow pages (newspaper, magazine, etc.)
- Opposite of the color (blue)?
- Pet peeve, bad habit or good habit?
- Problem that needs solving?
- School subject? Major?
- Sound?
- Habit? good or bad (e.g., biting nails, smoking)
- Unusual reason that people might break up?
- What am I holding in my hands? (hold up hands)
- What is an annoying personal habit?
- Number?
- Eighth dwarf?
Styles? (Can be used as any regular suggestion)
- Age (e.g., 9, 67)
- Cable TV Channel (e.g., VH-1, Weather)
- Decade (e.g., the 50s, 80s)
- Emotion (e.g., sad, happy)
- Era (e.g., Stone age, Renaissance)
- Geographic Locale (e.g., the south)
- Historical period or event (e.g., American Revolution, Pearl Harbor)
- Historical Person (e.g., Lincoln, Napoleon)
- Holiday (e.g., Christmas, Labor Day)
- Insect (e.g., Spider, Praying Mantis)
- Magazine (e.g., Fortune, Time)
- Monster (e.g., Frankenstein, Vampire)
- Move Genre (e.g., Film Noir, Horror)
- Movie Director (e.g., Speilberg, Tarentino)
- Music Festival (e.g., Lollapalooza, Lillith Fair)
- Musical Style (e.g., Rap, Country)
- Obsession (e.g., women, shopping)
- Occupation (e.g., doctor, lawyer)
- Retail Store (e.g., Gap, Target)
- Sport (e.g., football, golf)
- Theatre (e.g., Shakespeare, Greek)
- Title to a song, story, book, etc.
- Type of Book (e.g., mystery, Harlequin)
- Video Category (e.g., kids, drama)
- Weather Condition (e.g., windy, cold)
- Writing Style (e.g., prose, poetry)