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Once Upon a Time: The storytelling card game – Improve your storytelling and listening skills

2015-06-24 by David Sanchez 2 Comments

Get your message across, lead a "conversation" to your desired conclusion, listen up to detect your chance to jump into the "conversation" and be creative on the fly.  These are all things you'll do, skills that you'll develop, when playing Once Upon a Time: The storytelling card game. This is a peculiar game (and in my eyes, a stroke of genius) for 2-6 players.  It's not very competitive in nature, but surely very enjoyable.  Summarized, the rules are: Each player will have a certain amount of cards in their hand.  These cards show random objects, events, places, aspects, etc.  Also, each player will have one "ending" card, a sentence to finish the story: if you are able to get rid of all your cards and finish the story coherently reading your ending card, you win. A player will start narrating a story he will be making up as he goes.  He will try to fit in the best he can the things his cards say (objects, places, events, aspects, etc.); as he does, he will place down on the [Read full post...]

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