Exercise 6.6

Do It

State an interesting challenge for your game, set up a whiteboard or a sheet of butcher paper, and use the techniques previously discussed to generate 100 ideas related to your challenge in 60 minutes.

Challenge:

Get through a bad day at school as a student:

  1. Have morning coffee/good breakfast/energy drink

  2. Meditate

  3. Ask to leave class to walk the hallways

  4. Leave campus for lunch

  5. Find a friend

  6. Go to your favorite teacher

  7. Go to the art room to paint

  8. Ditch school to go to a movie

  9. Skip the class you hate

  10. Play a prank on a teacher

  11. Binge eat chocolate

  12. Fight your bully

  13. Make fun of someone else to make yourself feel better

  14. Spread a rumor about someone

  15. Cheat on a test

  16. Study for your test

  17. Do your homework

  18. Read a book

  19. Go to the gym to workout

  20. Visit the music room to listen to someone playing music

  21. Go outside to walk on track

  22. Go to the woods behind the school

  23. Hide in the bathroom

  24. Text your friends during class

  25. Join the smokers for a cigarette

  26. Skip school and ride the bus around town all day

  27. Stop to smell the flowers

  28. Pick flowers

  29. Take a video/photos of wildlife

  30. Go home and sleep

  31. Sleep in and don’t go to school

  32. Call the school, pretend you are your parent and say you’re sick

  33. Skip school and invite friends over to your house

  34. Go to the mall to treat yourself

  35. Steal something from a store

  36. Breakup with your boyfriend/girlfriend

  37. Cry in class

  38. Put your headphones in during lecture

  39. Go to the nurse to fake sick so you can go home

  40. Visit the principal’s office

  41. Go to the counselor

  42. Take a nap during lunch

  43. Go to the library

  44. Put your head down on our desk in class

  45. Avoid your friends

  46. Ride your bike to school

  47. Steal a bike outside the school and go for a joyride

  48. Snap chat your girlfriend/boyfriend. Maintain that streak!

  49. Take a 10 selfies with 10 different smiles

  50. Eat all the cookies in the cafeteria

  51. Run laps until your legs can’t hold you up anymore

  52. Go to the gym and do dead lifts

  53. Listen to classical music

  54. Go to the band room and sing until your heart's content

  55. Play any instruments

  56. Help a teacher clean up his/her classroom

  57. Count all the squirrels you can find around the school

  58. Join a yoga class if there’s one at school

  59. Take a power nap in the library

  60. Ask the librarian for a book recommendation and read it

  61. Finish your long list of unfinished homework

  62. Forgot to ask my parents to sign my report card

  63. Don’t know which is worse, ask my parents to sign the report card or forgot to ask them to do it

  64. Miss one page of my homework

  65. She/he didn’t respond to my stupid smile

  66. Jack is sick and we shared a cup of milkshake yesterday

  67. Toilet paper is gone

  68. Where is my wallet?

  69. Where is all my money in my wallet?

  70. She/he says to me: you are a good person, but…

  71. Waiting my favorite game to be released in the classroom

  72. Whistle in my brain

  73. Really have to pee

  74. Why are they coughing so much

  75. Want to see that snowman again

  76. That screen is too big and I am too close

  77. They are laughing at me

  78. I am leaving

  79. Can I roll my eyes twice?

  80. It's too late and it's too loud

  81. Looking for the chance to escape this place

  82. Teacher is coming and where is the save button?

  83. Looking into his/her eyes and get nothing

  84. Sir, I do know that formula

  85. Ya, ya, laugh out loud. Let the guys upstairs hear you

  86. Say cheese

  87. I love guitar, where should I put my hands

  88. Forget my backpack at home

  89. Forget that I forget my backpack at home

  90. Everyone raise their hands

  91. Mr. Jackson is looking at me

  92. That is hilarious, ha ha

  93. They saw my father and his car

  94. Leave the classroom and take a deep breath in the freezing air

  95. Headache

  96. Pants are too short

  97. The book has been checked out

  98. Why should we write like this?

  99. Too many jokes

  100. I won!!