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2010 Ranked #16,412

Tell Tale

An improvisational picture-card game has players answer questions, debate, or build stories from random images. Different modes invite opponents to judge the most convincing point, story, or response at the end of each round.

Party Games Card Game Storytelling Mechanism: Story Creation

Players

3-12

Play time

Not listed

Age

8+

Complexity

1.11/5

Rating

5.83

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Tell Tale is an improv game based only on picture cards, with four different game rules: • Questions/Answers: Each player get eight cards and alternately asks another player a question based on a random picture card, and answers another player's question using another card.

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Tell Tale is an improv game based only on picture cards, with four different game rules: • Questions/Answers: Each player get eight cards and alternately asks another player a question based on a random picture card, and answers another player's question using another card. • Debate: Draw a random card to get a topic to debate; both players use five random cards to imagine convincing (?) points to support their side. • Tell me a Story: Both players alternately imagine a very short story (one sentence per card) using five random cards each. • Same and Again: Same as the previous rule, except both players use the same set of five cards (shuffled between each player's story). For all of these rules, the winner of the round is designated by the other players.

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Play and group

Players
3–12
Best with
3–12
Play time
20 min
Age
8+
Complexity
1.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Fabien Bleuze Yves Hirschfeld

Artists

1
Hervé Gourdet

Publishers

4
Blue Orange Games Cocktail Games Galápagos Jogos Hobby Japan

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