Hot Potato (just got hotter)

So... Hot Potato. Here we go! The group forms a circle and passes a safe object around while music is playing. But, when the music stops, the object stops with the person holding it. Here are some twists:

• Patient-preferred music - Import songs from iTunes into Garageband and edit them to varying length snippets. I like to edit most track lengths to stop at the end of phrases or at predictable musical breaks, entraining musicality, while cutting a couple tracks at surprising moments to make the game fun. Leave 10 seconds of silence after each track to stop the iPod or CD player between rounds. Send the snippet to iTunes.
• Winners - Depending on the setting you're facilitating within, you may make the person left holding the object a winner, i.e., interpersonal reinforcement, a reward, or empower them to start the next round by saying, "Go!"
• Communication - Instead, you can have the winner respond to a question or prompt you provide. This can be something neutral, self-expressive, social, or treatment oriented. After you have modeled multiple good questions, the winners of some groups may be able to instead ask a new question themselves. 
• Body percussion - Be sure to make Garageband snippets using music with a strong beat; once the group is comfortable with whatever rules you're using to play Hot Potato, you can now remove the object, and instead use body percussion to play. With everybody sitting down, tapping their thighs to the beat with both hands, now pass a hand clap around the circle! Individuals can only clap their hands once the person next to them already has, and only as quickly as the group's thigh-slapping beat!