Dixit Odyssey is the European answer to Apples to Apples. Dixit Odyssey is a party game, light enough to play socially even with a drink or two. The game is composed of 84 large, Tarot-sized cards, a scoreboard, player boards, and rabbit score tokens. Each card depicts a childlike, innocent, surreal painting. The beautiful art of the cards make this game magnificent.
The gameplay is simple. At the beginning of a turn, the active player picks a card and describes it with a word or a short phrase. Other players then submit a card from their hand of cards that best matches the active player's description. The active player then shuffles all the submitted cards including her card.
Everyone that guesses the active player's card scores, and players who have their cards (wrongly) picked also score. However if no player guesses correctly, all but the active player score. Thus the goal is to pursue the golden mean of giving clues that are not too easy but not that hard.
Dixit Odyssey is a standalone expansion that can be played with the original Dixit or by itself. Dixit has a few more cards and arguably better art but Dixit Odyssey offers a better scoreboard, and allows double the number of players, up to twelve.
You can sample the game via iDixit, an iPhone app of the original Dixit. Due to all the multiplayer technical issues that rose during the initial roll-out, iDixit is free for a limited time.
