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Dixit

Mindprint Rating

Tags

^21st Century Skills All Ages Game

Skills

Flexible Thinking Expressive Language Working Memory Verbal Reasoning Abstract Reasoning

Mindprint Expert Review

Pros

  • Beautiful illustrations will promote creativity and engage children across a broad age range.
  • Players must think abstractly and strategically to score points.
  • Encourages children to carefully choose descriptive words and communicate clearly to others.

Considerations

  • Children who have difficulty listening, speaking, or making connections could have feelings of uncertainty or shyness.
  • Students who are accustomed to having a single right answer might feel frustrated at times.

Mindprint Expert Review

Dixit is an outstanding game to develop children's abstract thinking with both words and pictures. In this game, six beautiful, fanciful illustrated cards are dealt to each person. The first player places a card face down and describes the card using a word, a sentence, or a sound. Next, all players select a card from their hands that best represents the description. After all players have contributed a card, players go around the table and makes a guess as to which card belonged to the first player. If everyone, or no one, chooses the first player's card, the first player receives no points. Otherwise, all players receive a point every time their card is picked. Thus the challenge is for the first player's description to be informative yet ambiguous enough for only some of the players to guess. The first round or two can be confusing, but even the youngest players will quickly catch on. Since there is never a right answer, no judge, no timer, and no reading, this game offers an opportunity for a broad range of ages and abilities to play together without hurt feelings. This game will encourage children to use their imagination while learning to use detailed, expressive language, listen carefully, and think logically.

Fun

Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
  • Visually appealing to children in the target age range
  • Adults would enjoy playing with a child
  • For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
  • Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
  • Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

Easy to Use

Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
  • Student should be able to use independently after first use
  • Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
  • Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
  • Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
  • Can be fun as a single player game
  • Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
  • Well-made for the cost
  • For electronic games, can play without sound
  • For electronic games, allows user to save work
  • For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
  • Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
  • Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
  • Overall - Easy to use

Manufacturer Description

Every picture tells a story – but what story will your picture tell? Dixit is the lovingly illustrated game of creative guesswork, where your imagination unlocks the tale. In this award-winning board game, players will use the beautiful imagery on their cards to bluff their opponents and guess which image matches the story. Guessing right is only half the battle – to really succeed, you’ll have to get your friends to decide that your card tells the story! Every turn, the storyteller will call out a short phrase or word to match the image on his card. Then each player will choose the card that most closely matches that phrase, and then everyone must guess which card the storyteller saw when he invented his brief tale. Correctly guess the storyteller’s card, and you’ll move ahead. Convince everyone else that your card is best, and you’ll do even better. Dixit is a wonderfully simple game, playable by nearly anyone with whom you share a common language. With a fantastic range of beautiful illustrations and rules that can be understood by children and adults alike, Dixit will appeal to anyone with an imagination. It’s no surprise that Dixit won the Spiel de Jahres award for game design in 2010. It is brilliant and simple, beautiful and imaginative, and fun for all.