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Info-Gurus

Also known as: Hecklers Variant

A variation of "Hecklers": two speakers per team try to "sell" a dubious info-product, while the audience interrupts them with tricky questions. Good for training status, quick response, and maintaining a storyline under pressure.

Players

5–8

Difficulty

Beginner

Full description

Setup and launch

Assemble the cast: two speakers per team and one emcee. Set the frame: this is a variant of "Hecklers" where pseudo-experts are on stage and the audience plays skeptics who interfere and disrupt.

Get a specialization topic from the audience (a niche, an "expertise" area) and refine it to a short, clear formulation. Explain that the speakers' task is to confidently "sell nonsense," while the audience's task is to expose inconsistencies through questions.

Flow

  1. Announcement and frame. The emcee introduces the team, repeats the topic, and allows the audience to intervene with short, sharp questions.

  2. First pitch. The speakers briefly present their "product" on the topic, adopt an arrogant expert tone and make promises.

  3. Questions from the audience. The emcee directs the floor; the audience disrupts the speakers with logical traps, while the speakers wriggle out and maintain high status.

  4. Escalation. The speakers amplify the absurdity, invent "case studies" and benefits; the audience spots gaps and contradictions, creating pressure.

  5. Finale. When the idea is exhausted or the laughter dies down, the emcee gives a short summary and closes the scene with applause.

Key rules

  • Ask the audience for a specific specialization topic and rephrase it into one short sentence — this gives speakers something to latch onto as their "expertise."

  • Separately agree on tone: questions target logic and inconsistencies, not the performers personally — keep the game sharp but safe.

  • Manage reply traffic: short questions, one voice at a time; cut off group interruptions and overly long speeches.

  • If the audience stalls, throw in the first provocative question yourself and give the floor back to the audience — this sets the format example.

  • Remind speakers: confident status and plain speech; fewer "theories," more invented benefits, examples, and alleged facts.

Context

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