Before

Write the truths first, and write them honestly. Short lines about being alive that you'd hesitate to say out loud at a party. Put them on old postcards in your own handwriting, because a hand-written postcard is an object somebody will save.

Then write the dares, one per card, and keep them small and doable: buy a neighbor a coffee, yarn-bomb the mailbox, write a poem for a friend, find something in the room and make something of it. Aim for a spread of courage, generosity, absurdity, and attention.

Find something to pull from. A card catalog is glorious if you have one, but a shoebox works; don't let the furniture stop you. Find your “gorilla” and a silver tray. Make the character your own, but keep it light: handing over a card off a tray is a different act from passing it across a table. Set the event up in Plurality and print your flyer to advertise.

During

Make them choose before they know anything, and make the commitment explicit: Truth or Drawer, decide now.

Give Truth a couch in the middle of the room, not a private corner. The whole point is that the person sits there afterward with the postcard in their hand where others can see it, because that's what starts the conversation. Take a photo of each player with their truth, and ask them to keep the card on them for the rest of the day.

Send the Drawer players out to do their thing, and gather the room when somebody performs; the poem read aloud to a full room is the moment everybody else decides to play. Hand out a medal or a trophy for every completed dare. It can be anything, from a thrifted plastic figurine to a decorated bottle cap to a printed certificate.

After

Photograph the dares as they happen and invite folks to record any other Moments. The picture of a grown adult barking at a page or wrapping a mailbox in yarn is next year's invitation.

Let neighbors write dares for the box. A dare written by one neighbor for a stranger beats anything you'd write yourself, and by the second run the box belongs to the block.

And shrink it if you need to. This works as a whole gallery weekend, and it works just as well as one evening in a living room with a shoebox, a costume, and eight people willing to commit before they know what they're committing to.