You need two players and a behind-scenes person to move the fire (an artificial campfire with invisible strings

attached).

The players sit by the fire, reading, doing a puzzle, etc. The fire moves slightly. They don't notice. It moves

again; they don't notice. This continues until, finally, the fire is pulled off stage. At that point, one of the players

looks at the other and says, "Looks like the fire's gone out again!"

-- Thanks to Scouting (UK) magazine