Reverie

Give a clue. Find the picture. Be mysterious — but not too mysterious.

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How to play

3 to 15 players. Everyone holds six picture cards.

  1. Each round one player is the storyteller. They pick a card from their hand and give a clue — a word, a phrase, a sound, a song lyric.
  2. Everyone else secretly plays a card that could also fit that clue.
  3. The cards are shuffled and laid out. Everyone except the storyteller votes for the one they think was the storyteller's — you can't vote for your own.
  4. Scoring:
    • Everyone found it, or nobody did → storyteller 0, everyone else 2.
    • Otherwise → storyteller and each correct guesser 3.
    • Either way, 1 per vote your own card attracted.
  5. The storyteller passes on, hands refill, repeat. First to 30 wins — so aim for a clue that some, but not all, will get.

With 3 players, everyone except the storyteller plays two cards.

Reverie is an independent, open-source clone of Dixit, the storytelling card game by Jean-Louis Roubira and Libellud. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by them — if you enjoy this, buy the real thing.

Card art is public-domain work from the Art Institute of Chicago and The Met. See the deck.