How to Play

Dixit: Odyssey

3-12 players 30-30 min 7.4 Board Game Geek Rating

Players take turns as storytellers, providing cryptic clues for abstract artwork cards. Other players submit matching cards from their hands, then everyone votes to identify the storyteller's original card. Scoring rewards balanced clues—too obvious or obscure earns zero points. Players gain points for correct guesses and votes received. Highest score wins when cards run out.

Published 2011

Dixit: Odyssey

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

1
Assemble the scoreboard
Connect the two parts of the scoreboard and place it at the center of the table
2
Choose player components
Each player selects a voting board and places the matching colored rabbit on the 0 space of the scoreboard
3
Prepare the deck
Shuffle all 84 image cards thoroughly
4
Deal starting hands
Give 6 image cards to each player (7 cards in a 3-player game)
5
Create draw pile
Place remaining image cards face-down as the draw pile
6
Distribute voting tokens for 3-6 players
Each player takes 1 voting token of any color
7
Distribute voting tokens for 7-12 players
Each player takes 2 voting tokens of any color
8
Keep cards hidden
Players must not show their image cards to other players
9
Select first storyteller
The first player to think of something to say becomes the storyteller for the first turn

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

1
Examine your hand
The storyteller looks at their 6 image cards
2
Give a clue
Think of something to say about one card and announce it out loud without revealing the card
3
Choose clue format
The clue can be one word, several words, an onomatopoeia, a poem line, song lyric, movie title, proverb, or invented phrase
4
Select matching cards
All other players choose from their hand the card that best illustrates what the storyteller said
5
Submit cards secretly
Each player gives their chosen card face-down to the storyteller
6
3-player variant
Non-storyteller players each submit 2 cards instead of 1
7
Shuffle and reveal
The storyteller shuffles submitted cards with their own, then reveals them randomly on numbered spaces 1-12 on the scoreboard
8
Vote secretly
Each player (except the storyteller) places their voting token on their voting board to indicate which image they believe is the storyteller's
9
Restriction on voting
Players cannot vote for their own submitted image
10
7+ player option
Players may use their second voting token to vote for a second image
11
Reveal votes
Once everyone has voted, all players reveal their voting boards
12
Reveal answer
The storyteller announces which image was theirs
13
Score if everyone or no one guesses correctly
The storyteller scores 0 points; all other players score 2 points each
14
Score for partial success
If some but not all players find the storyteller's image, the storyteller scores 3 points
15
Score for correct guessers
Each player who found the storyteller's image scores 3 points
16
Award bonus points
Each non-storyteller player scores 1 bonus point per vote their submitted image received, maximum 3 bonus points
17
7+ player bonus
Players who voted for only one image score 1 extra point if they found the storyteller's image
18
Move rabbit tokens
Advance each player's rabbit on the score track according to points earned
19
Refill hands
Each player draws cards to return their hand to 6 cards (7 in 3-player games)
20
Reshuffle if needed
If the draw pile is exhausted, shuffle discarded cards to form a new draw pile
21
Pass storyteller role
The player to the left of the current storyteller becomes the new storyteller

Winning

How to claim victory.

1
Trigger game end
The game ends at the conclusion of any turn when a player reaches or exceeds 30 points
2
Determine the winner
The player with the most points wins the game
3
Resolve ties
If players are tied for the highest score, they share the victory

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