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Stories!

LAST TIME at the supermarket …

Within a minute you tell a story on a given topic, topics are provided by 100 double-sided story cards; each player is given a sheet and a pen and two Objection cards, marked with -1 and -2.

As the narrator of the round you draw the top story card and select one of the two starting sentences provided - the beginnings in the green frame will be for a rather conventional story, e.g. "When I moved to my new house…", the story beginnings in the purple frames are more offbeat, e.g. "When I was abducted by Aliens ….". You read out the chosen beginning and all other players write down five suitable words which they expect to appear in your story. Suitable words nouns, both singular and plural forms are valid, verbs and adjectives. When all have completed their notes, you turn over the timer and tell the story. The others can interrupt at any time with a question which you must answer properly with a sentence, for each question the player throws in one of his objection cards. Words that you mention are marked on players sheets, when noted there. If someone could mark all five words, he stops the round - all read out their words in turn and score 2 points for words they have in common with other players, and 4 points for each word that they have noted alone. For questions asked you deduct the points on the card(s) used. The narrator scores the same number of points as the player with most points.

When everybody was narrator once or twice you win with most points.

Witty, funny and quickly played; and despite negative scores for question you can earn more points with a cleverly asked question than you lose. Creativity is in demand!

Players: 3-10

Age: 8+

Time: 30+

Designer: Thomas Odenhoven Kaller

Artist: Michael Menzel

Price: ca. 22 Euro

Publisher: Schmidt Spiele 2013

Web: www.schmidtspiele.de

Genre: Narrative

Users: For families

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Nice choice of story beginnings

Cleverly posed questions can earn you more points than they cost

Compares to:

Once upon a Time! and other narrative games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0