Daydream — Six strange pictures each, and one line that has to be half understood.

Say a short line about one of your pictures. Everybody else plays one that could have earned it, and the room votes on which was yours. 3 to 8 people, 15 minutes.

It is the quietest game on this shelf and it is the one people talk about afterwards. There is no shouting, no timer anybody is racing, and no right answer — one person writes a few words, everybody else looks at six pictures for a minute, and then the table finds out how differently five colleagues read the same sentence.

Nobody is bad at it. There is no general knowledge in it, no vocabulary, nothing to be quick at, and no drawing — the pictures arrive already made. What it rewards is knowing the room, which is the one skill a team accumulates by being a team, and which the newest person picks up faster than they expect.

It scales down further than most of what is here. Three people is a real game rather than a tolerated one, which makes it the thing to put on when half the team is away and the games that want eight are off the table.

A round

Six each, face downOne linePlay one that fitsWhich was theirs?

On the sheet

+3The storyteller — some of the room found their card and some did not

0The storyteller — everybody found it, or nobody did

+3Whoever found it — and only in a round where the room was split

+2Everybody but the storyteller — the line was too plain or too private, and they voted

+1 eachWhoever else was voted for — per person who picked their card, to a maximum of three

0Nobody — no line was told, or nobody voted

Also on

Games for a team of six Games for eight people at once Games that are best with five Games that fit in fifteen minutes Guessing games for a team

How to play Daydream