Review: Rory’s Story Cubes – Let’s Tell A Story

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If you need a small game for an ice breaker, one you can pull out of a bag, or a stocking stuffer, Rory’s Story Cubes is the one for you.

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The small, beautifully printed, magnetised box contains tiny manuals explaining how the game is played and nine customised dice. Each dice has a variety of images covering its faces. The faces of each die are entirely different, with images like a castle, a honey bee, a shooting star, a man with a parachute, etc.

The rules of Rory’s Story Cubes are simple: there are none. But there are a few directions that you can follow. It’s straightforward: you take all nine of the dice and roll them. Quickly scan the dice to see which stands out the most, and start telling a story. Use the image of three of the dice to tell the story’s start, another three to tell the middle, and the last three for the conclusion.

Alternatively, you can roll three dice alone to describe the protagonist of your story and then roll all of the dice together to create a story for them to pursue.

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The third suggestion for rules is “Epic Stories”. For this, each player takes a turn rolling all nine dice and weaving a chapter of the story, in which the next person builds the next chapter with their own dice roll. The last player is responsible for tying up all the loose ends and concluding all the stories.

There are also a lot of opportunities for you to create your own rules. With our family, we decided that the person starting the story would roll all the dice and get the first pick to start the story. At the same time, the rest of the table goes clockwise, picking a single die to turn into a segment of the story, all