Jean-Louis ROUBIRA Marie Cardouat
Jean-Louis ROUBIRA Marie Cardouat
Jean-Louis ROUBIRA Marie Cardouat
Designer
Jean-Louis Roubira
Ilustrator
Marie Cardouat
Publisher
Régis Bonnessée
Who will be the storyteller for the first round? You decide! Is it the person who last read a
story or held a book? Or the person who can come up with their sentence fastest?
The storyteller shuffles their card with all the received cards, then randomly places them
face up on the table. The card on the left will be number 1, the one next to it will be
number 2, and so on…
Example of turn Game Tips
If the sentence given by the storyteller describes the image too precisely, all the
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5 players are around the table: Julien, Mathilde, Nicolas, Léa and Tom.
players will easily find it and so they won’t score any points.
Julien is the first player to find a sentence inspired by an image from his hand.
On the other hand, if the sentence has very little to do with the image, it’s quite likely
So, he will start the first turn as the storyteller. The sentence he says
that nobody will vote for their card, and again the storyteller will score no points.
to everyone is: "Where is happiness?" referring to the French movie
"Happiness is in the Field."
So the challenge for the storyteller is to find a sentence that is neither too descriptive,
nor too abstract, so there is a chance that some players find it, but not all of them.
After listening to the sentence, the other players have to choose an image from their hand
that will best match the sentence provided by Julien.
At the beginning, this can be fairly hard to achieve, but you’ll see that inspiration
comes more easily after a few turns.
Léa has those 6 cards in hand:
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Variants
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3 players: each player has 7 cards, instead of 6. Every player except the storyteller
plays 2 cards per round, instead of one. So we end up with 5 displayed cards to
choose from.
1 2 4 5 6 Scoring: When only one player has found the storyteller’s card, they both score
3
4 points, instead of 3.
Amongst those 6 images, she chooses the 3rd one which is, for her, the closest to Julien’s Mimes or songs: in this variant, the storyteller can either sing a song or some
sentence " Where is happiness? ". She gives this card to him. Mathilde, Nicolas and Tom music that could be somehow related to the card, or even mime it! The rest of the
also choose one of their cards and give them to Julien, the storyteller for this turn. game stays the same.
Julien shuffles his card with the ones he received from the other players and places them
in the middle of the table. Nothing prevents you from mixing the different variants together or creating
some of your own!
Each player (except the storyteller) is going to vote for the one they think is Julien’s card.
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Acknowledgments
Jean-Louis Roubira and Régis Bonnessée would like to warmly thank all the people
and organisations that have supported them during this project:
Marie Cardouat, Yolande Albert, Jonas and Noémi Roubira, Christelle and Emmanuelle Chartier,
1 2 3 4 5 Sébastien Félix, Michel and Monique Bonnessée, Arnaud Pichon, Claudine and Hugh Hill-Roubira,
Colette Cortey and Benam Mohammadi, Claude and Carmen Roubira,Jeremy Guetté, Muriel Dhifallah,
Pierre, Florence and Thomas Artur, Yves Renou, CROC, Julie Ser, Valérie Bouchet, the REEL association,
Once everyone has selected their voting token, they reveal them.
David Prieto, Vicente Moreira Rato, Delirium Ludens Sàrl, Wioletta & Marc Przepiorka, Leonardo Greco,
Bastien Lefèvre, Gavin Wynford-Jones.
Only Léa has found Julien’s card (number 4). So she and Julien score 3 points each.
2 players have voted for Léa’s card (number 1) and so she scores 2 additional points.
Tom scores 1 point as one person has voted for his card (number 3).
At the end of this turn, Léa scores a total of 5 points, Julien 3 points and Tom 1 point;
Mathilde and Nicolas don’t score any points as they couldn’t find Julien’s card, and no-
one has voted for their cards.
For the next turn, Tom will be the storyteller as he’s seated to the left of Julien.
Th e dream goes on with the expansions!
Expansions
QUEST
Dreamlike search ORIGINS
for innocence Genesis of DAYDREAMS
JOURNEY fantastic worlds Evocative waking
Mysterious and reveries
enchanting voyage
REVELATIONS ANNIVERSARY
MEMORIES Unveiling fairy grace Where all these
Dazzling childhood HARMONIES worlds meet
souvenirs Dawn of natural
balance