The Exquisite Corpse
The title, translated from French, became the name of a stream-or consciousness way to create art or poetry, to explore the 'mystique' of art that is created by accident . To create these 'accidents' 4-5 people gather into a group, each with a piece of paper and a pen/pencil. To play the drawing version each person (a group of four or five is good) secretly draws some image, a part of something, anything at all on about the top 2" of his/her paper, then folds it down so only a tiny part of drawing shows.

The papers are passed to the person on the left who DOESN'T UNFOLD THE PAPER TO SEE WHAT WAS DRAWN, but adds something to the bottom of it and folds that over so only a little tiny bit shows.  The papers pass around the group until each paper is all folded up. Then unfold and enjoy the results.

This website shows how it is done: Drawing an Exquisite Corpse

The name of these games comes from the sentence Breton and his friends created: "The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine." To create a word game the same group of people gathers in a circle, ech with paper and pen(cil). To begin, each person writes an adjective (exquisite) on the paper, then folds it down, passes it to the left. The second word everyone writes is a noun (corpse) and folds the paper over. Generally, the order of grammer is NOUN, ADJECTIVE, NOUN, ADVERB, VERB, ADJECTIVE, NOUN.
Fooling around with the order will produce interesting results.

This website explains how to create an accidental poem and provides lists of ords as examples for each grammatical type of word.
Accidental Poetry: The Exquisite Corpse
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