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Rory’s Story Cubes

Once upon a time ….

Once upon a time … this is how your story could begin, but before that you should roll the dice! Why? Well, the game is called story cubes and comprises 9 dice, each of them shows 6 unique pictures, so each roll of these dice offers you a selection of 9 pictures out of 54 and therefore limitless possibilities for stories. You choose one die to start with and begin to tell a story using this item and continue to tell the story using all 9 cubes in any order you like.

This mechanism can be used to play alone or in a group and you can invent your own rules. So maybe all players in turn could roll the dice and tell their story and at the end all players vote for the best story. Or all players could use the same roll and tell a story and again all vote for the best story or you use the same dice and each player continues the story by using one of the dice which then is “out of the story”.

There are 54 items, but they are open for interpretation, the magnet in the shape of a horse shoe can be the magnet or an arch or a horse shoe or the letter “U” and the the fountain from the well could be all that is visible of a whale – this is a wonderful game for travelling, you only need imagination and a few cm² for rollint the dice.

The game is available in several editions and has been picked up now by the US company Gamewright. Recently, Story Cubes Actions has been published, the dice show 54 individual actions and can be combined with the picture cubes. A fabulous way to start a story, a fantastic training for vocabulary, imagination and interpretation, the padlock could be a handbag.

Spieler         : 1+

Alter            : ages 6 and up

Dauer           : variabel

Autor           : Rory O´Connor

Grafik          : nicht genannt

Titel englisch          : -

Preis            : ca. 12,00 Euro

Verlag          : The Creativity Hub 2010

                     www.storycubes.com        

Genre                    : narrative game

Zielgruppe             : For families

Mechanismen         : tells stories using the cube pictures

Kommentar:

Handy minimal package

Now available from Gamewright

Expansion Story Cubes Actions available

Vergleichbar:

Once upon a time, Ein solches Ding and other narrative games

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