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How to balance Dixit?
That particular rule isn't particularly balanced, and is included for convenience. However, playing with fewer cards in hand also imbalances the game, as storytellers have fewer cards to choose from ...
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How to balance Dixit?
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A turn consists of one player being the story teller and all other players guessing.
A round consists of as many turns as there are players, so that every player has been the ...
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Alternative to Dixit Odyssey voting boards+pegs
There aren't official tokens for more than 7 players. Instead, you can have the rule that people hold their hands over their voting cards on the table to indicate readiness. That makes it easy to tell ...
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Dixit: what to do if two players cross the finish at the same time?
If two players cross the finish line at the same time, then the player with the most points wins. If they both have the most points the rules don't indicate any tiebreaker, but my suggestion is to ...
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Dixit: what to do if two players cross the finish at the same time?
According to these rules,
The game ends when one of the players has reached 30 points or when a player draws the last card. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
The player ...
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Can you play Dixit cooperatively with only 2 players?
That doesn't sound too bad, except that the drawn cards could be really off.
Alternatively, you could try to play a cooperative variant.
These two are interesting:
The game is cooperative. Each ...
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Is there a portable / travel / pocket Dixit, without a large / bulky board but same riddling gameplay?
There are no official portable Dixit version I'm aware of, but to play the game you need only 3 things:
Set of cards with artwork
Way to secretly vote for cards for each player
Way to track score
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Differences between Dixit versions?
We bought the Journey version for our 8 year old a couple of years ago. We liked the concept of the game, but the images used in this version are dark and a bit disturbing. Almost all of them depict ...
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Dixit variations to increase replay value?
We had three variants:
for a more casual play, you can discard cards and draw replacements whenever you want. this lifts some of the mental blocks.
A player must play the same clue twice in a row, so ...
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Dixit variations to increase replay value?
There are also a few expansions out there. Increasing the pool of images helps.
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Is there a portable / travel / pocket Dixit, without a large / bulky board but same riddling gameplay?
If you just take the cards you can use a mobile app for voting and keeping score - search Dixit Score on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Full disclosure - I'm the maker of one of these apps -...
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Where can I get good-quality boxes of custom sizes, so I can store my board games compactly?
Dixit expansions come in boxes of size 8.1 x 3 x 12.7 cm. The cards from the base set, Journey or Odyssey should fit in one of those exact same boxes. Get a box for each expansion that you own. You ...
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I bought the Dixit Odyssey standalone game and was wondering which expansions would best match up
When it comes to the differences between various Dixit games, I'm hoping you've already read this question (and its answers).
But to answer your question, I'm not sure there are really that many ...
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Differences between Dixit versions?
old thread, but I stumbled upon it when googling, so I'm sure others will to.
There's a good comparison of all the dixit products here:
https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/171700/dixit-product-guide
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Dixit variations to increase replay value?
In some cases it helps to force a theme for clues. For example, you must use song lyrics as a clue, or only movie quotes. These, sadly, depend on knowledge of particular medium in reference. But since ...
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