Dixit

Why it's in our library

Dixit is played with large picture cards that have no words on them, so a clue can be a single word, a sound or a tiny story, and everyone at the table gets to be clever in their own way. The best clues land for some players but not all, and that balance makes every reveal of the votes worth waiting for.

How to play

You score points by giving good clues and making good guesses about picture cards. Everyone holds a hand of these cards, and players take turns being the storyteller.

The storyteller quietly chooses a card from their hand and offers a clue about it. The clue might be a word, a phrase, a sound or a short story. Aim for the middle: not so plain that everyone gets it, and not so strange that nobody does.

Everyone else then picks the card from their own hand that best fits the clue and hands it to the storyteller face down. The storyteller shuffles these cards in with their own and lays them out in a row. Each other player secretly votes for the card they think is the storyteller's. You can't vote for your own.

Then the votes are shown. If everyone found the storyteller's card, or nobody did, the storyteller scores nothing and everyone else gets a small bonus. Otherwise the storyteller and each player who guessed right score. You also earn a point for every vote your own card drew in. Rabbit pawns keep track of scores.

Everyone draws back to a full hand, and the storyteller role passes to the left. The game ends when the draw pile runs out or someone reaches the end of the score track. The highest score wins.

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