Verbal Spontaneous Problems

Please Note: These are not official Odyssey of the Mind Spontaneous problems but are supplied here as training tools for improving teams' spontaneous skills. Official practice problems can be found if you purchase the books of spontaneous problems and sample problems can also be found on the Odyssey of Mind website.

Once upon a time...

Your challenge is to tell a series of short stories that incorporate all of your chosen words.

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Smile or Scream?

Your challenge is to name things that make you scream or things that make you smile.

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Shark-week

Your challenge is to say something about the picture

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Fixer-upper

Your challenge is to say something about the picture

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Changes

Your challenge is to name things that change or are changed. You may include how something is changed.

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Happy to Start or Happy to Finish?

Your challenge is to name a situation in which someone would be happy that it started, or happy it had finished.

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The Odd Couple

Your challenge is to say something about this picture, or what one animal would say to the other.

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Help, my teacher is a Vampire!

Your challenge is to say what would be better or worse, at school, if your teacher was a vampire.

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Freaky Feet

Your challenge is to say something about the feet, or what one or both feet would say.

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As light as a feather

Your challenge is to give a series of responses that increase in weight.

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Dear me!

Your challenge is to give a sentence that contains as many words that rhyme with "dear" as possible

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Tree Dog

Your challenge is to say something about the picture or describe what the animal might be thinking.

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