Dixit is a card game created by Jean-Louis Roubira, illustrated by Marie Cardouat, and published by Libellud. Using a deck of cards illustrated with dreamlike images, players select cards that match a title suggested by the "storyteller", and attempt to guess which card the "storyteller" selected. The game was introduced in 2008. Dixit won the 2010 Spiel des Jahres award. The game's title is the Latin word for "he/she/it said".
Gameplay
Each player starts the game with six random cards. Players then take turns being the storyteller. The player whose turn it is to be storyteller looks at the six images in his or her hand. From one of these, he or she makes up a sentence or phrase that might describe it and says it out loud. Each other player then selects from among their own six cards the one that best matches the sentence given by the storyteller. Then, each player gives their selected card to the storyteller, without showing it to the others. The storyteller shuffles his or her chosen card with the cards received from the other players, and all cards are then dealt face up. The players then secretly guess which picture was the storyteller's, using numbered voting chips.
Scoring
The original rules were revised after publication. If all players find the storyteller's card
Storyteller: 0 points
Other players: 2 points
If no players find the storyteller's card
Storyteller: 0 points
Other players: 2 points
If at least 1 player, but not all players have found the storyteller's card
Storyteller: 3 points
Players who found the card: 3 points
Other players: 0 points
* In the original rules, players who did not find the storyteller's card were ineligible for bonus points. In the revised rules, the other players receive +1 bonus point per vote for his/her card.
In the original rules, the winner is the first player to reach 30 points. In the revised rules, the winner is the player with the most points when the last card is drawn.
Other editions
An iOS app for Dixit was released in 2011. Dixit has several expansion packs including:
Dixit has received highly positive reviews and over 30 awards and nominations. described it as a card game that "allows creativity and imagination to run riot", whereas referred to it "one of those very special game ideas that makes the most of the human brain while also keeping its rules to a minimum". noted that Dixit is "one of those rare games that can be played with a mixed age and skill group with little to no difficulty".
