| Welcome to Gambit. We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| Dixit; card game of imagination | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 12 2017, 08:42 PM (230 Views) | |
| lgm | Feb 12 2017, 08:42 PM Post #1 |
![]()
Demogorgon
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
|
We recently bought the game Dixit and had a chance to play it with our kids tonight. It's a very simple game that's loaded with imagination and strategy both. It's one of the more unique games I've come across. The game relies on a deck of over-sized cards with gorgeous artwork and imagination. When it's your turn, you look at one of the cards in your hand and give a clue to its identity to the other players. Clues are anything from a single word, a song or book title, fairy tale or short phrase (Ie.: "trapped by imagination", "Alice in Wonderland", "music"...). You use your imagination to describe the picture on the card. The other players choose a card in their hand that best matches your clue. The trick is in the scoring. You don't get any points if all the players guess it OR if none of the players guess it. So you want to fool most players but have at least one person figure it out. The other players score if they guess your card and if others guess their card. Play continues around the table until the cards run out or someone gets to 30 points. The secret to the game lies in the artwork. The designer was in the social sciences (psychology?) and took time to find the right artist to collaborate with. It's evocative and highly imaginative art that can be interpreted many ways. We played with all our kids (12, 7, and 6 years old) and they all easily understood the game in a couple minutes. The youngest ones didn't get a handle on strategy until everyone went once but it's simple enough that they had no problem from that point. I had to be careful to not go over their heads with using a description of something they didn't understand (Like saying "Tom Petty" as a clue for a card where two characters are free falling). This game would play fantastic with all adults or can be played with kids all the same. Edited by lgm, Feb 12 2017, 08:47 PM.
|
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
| « Previous Topic · Games · Next Topic » |






![]](http://z3.ifrm.com/static/1/pip_r.png)



10:41 AM Jul 11