Zoom Schwartz Profigliano - General Overview

General Overview

Figliano requires at least four players, with six to eight optimum. The first player holds an imaginary "zork". They pass it by looking at another player and stating one of the accepted calls. The zork is given to the person defined by the word chosen. The zork is passed either to the person looked at or to another player that was previously richocheed off of in the prior pass, depending upon the word used. During play, only passage words are allowed to be spoken.

Figliano is often a drinking game where a player who fouls must take a drink. In non-drinking forms the fouling player is simply embarrassed. Either way the fouling player starts the next round. There is also a children's version where a break in the conversation eliminates the player. The games can have as few commands as the basic "Zoom", "Schwartz" and "Profigliano", but some variations have as many as fifteen commands.

Some variants also have motions which must be made along with the command. Other versions describe the game as players passing around an imaginary ball of energy, a version also used as an improvisation game, where the object is to get the 'ball of energy' moving around the circle as fast as possible.