One game/activity I generally recommend because of its potential 11⁄10 fun payoff in the end, which also works in relative isolation, is having fun with gap texts (just figured out this is apparently known as “mad libs”, so maybe this isn’t actually new to anybody). The idea being that one person creates a small story with many words left out, and then asks other people to fill in the words without knowing the context. So “Bob scratched his <bodypart> and <verb> insecurely. ‘You know’, he said <adverb>, ’when I was a(n) <adjective> boy, I always wanted to become a(n) <noun>, but I couldn’t, because my <bodypart> is/are too <adjective>” might be part of such a story. You pick these gaps in random order and query people for the thing you need (or if you’re alone, you can even do this yourself given you manage to hide the context from yourself). Afterwards you read the story out loud to everybody involved.
I’ve done this a few times both with groups and just with my girlfriend and it never disappointed. Usually takes some time to write and fill in the story, but I think it’s very much worth it. Also, this gets funnier with experience as you figure out both what kind of text works best (involving body parts is certainly a great idea) and also what kinds of words to fill the gaps with (e.g. very visual ones, or such with certain connotations).
One game/activity I generally recommend because of its potential 11⁄10 fun payoff in the end, which also works in relative isolation, is having fun with gap texts (just figured out this is apparently known as “mad libs”, so maybe this isn’t actually new to anybody). The idea being that one person creates a small story with many words left out, and then asks other people to fill in the words without knowing the context. So “Bob scratched his <bodypart> and <verb> insecurely. ‘You know’, he said <adverb>, ’when I was a(n) <adjective> boy, I always wanted to become a(n) <noun>, but I couldn’t, because my <bodypart> is/are too <adjective>” might be part of such a story. You pick these gaps in random order and query people for the thing you need (or if you’re alone, you can even do this yourself given you manage to hide the context from yourself). Afterwards you read the story out loud to everybody involved.
I’ve done this a few times both with groups and just with my girlfriend and it never disappointed. Usually takes some time to write and fill in the story, but I think it’s very much worth it. Also, this gets funnier with experience as you figure out both what kind of text works best (involving body parts is certainly a great idea) and also what kinds of words to fill the gaps with (e.g. very visual ones, or such with certain connotations).