Preparing for an improv show like Improvise That! really feels like maths at some points. I’ve currently got spread out in front of me a big grid specifying game/people combinations and various game ordering constraints. Trying to find the optimal person to game allocation and game ordering whilst also making sure the same person is in consecutive games as little as possible is an interesting problem, especially since I do it on paper.
I have my system now but as I was sitting with my grid, filling in numbers, slashes and crosses I was reminded of a sudoku crossed with one of those ‘Lucy isn’t sitting next to Sarah and Lilly is 3 to the left of a vegetarian’ logic puzzles.