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Give a clue for your picture, then guess which one was the storyteller's.
Storyteller is a game of imagination and storytelling built around a deck of beautiful, dreamlike picture cards. If you love the storytelling game Dixit, you'll feel right at home.
Each round, one player is the storyteller. They secretly pick a card from their hand and say a clue about it: a word, a phrase, a sound, anything. Every other player then chooses a card from their own hand that best fits that clue, and all the chosen cards are shuffled together and revealed.
Now everyone except the storyteller votes for the card they think was the original. The trick: the storyteller only scores if some, but not all, players find their card. So a clue can't be too obvious or too obscure. Players also score when others mistake their card for the storyteller's. It's a game of subtle hints, lateral thinking, and reading your friends.
How to play
Storyteller is a game of imagination and clever hints. Each round one player, the storyteller, gives a mysterious clue about one of their cards. Everyone else slips in a card of their own, then tries to guess which one was the storyteller's.
How a round goes
The storyteller gives a clue
One player is the storyteller. They secretly choose a card from their hand and say a clue about it: a word, a phrase, a sound, anything. The card stays hidden.
Everyone plays a card
Every other player picks a card from their own hand that could match the clue and hands it in face-down. A convincing match might steal a vote later.
Reveal and vote
All the chosen cards are shuffled and revealed. Everyone except the storyteller votes for the card they think was the storyteller's. You cannot vote for your own.
Scoring
The clue has to be just right, not too obvious and not too obscure.
- If everyone, or no one, finds the storyteller's card: the storyteller scores 0 and everyone else scores 2.
- Otherwise: the storyteller and each player who guessed right score 3.
On top of that, you score 1 point for every vote your own card attracted.
The game ends when a player reaches the target score.
With 3 players
Everyone holds 7 cards, and the other 2 players each play 2 cards, so 5 cards are revealed. Voting and scoring do not change.
The perfect clue
Because you score nothing when all or none guess right, the best clues lead some players to your card while leaving others lost. Hint at it, do not hand it over.
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