Devine Tête Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Contents
• Objective
• Setup
• Course of the Game
• Giving Up?
• The Winner
• Games for All Ages

Contents

• 72 cards
• 24 tokens
• 6 headbands
• 1 hourglass
• 1 rulebook

Objective

Be the first player to get rid of your 3 tokens by guessing, within a time limit, what is drawn on the card slipped into your own headband.

To do this, you must ask the other players questions. They can only answer "yes", "no" or "maybe".

Setup

• Each player takes a headband and adjusts it around their head (the headband is adjustable, like a cap). Make sure the tab is centred on your forehead.
• Shuffle the cards and place them in a face-down pile on the table.
• Deal one card to each player.
• Without looking at the picture, each player inserts their card into the tab of their headband so that everyone else can see the picture on the card.
• Each player takes 3 tokens and places them in front of them. The remaining tokens are left in the box.

Course of the Game

• The youngest player starts the game. Play then proceeds clockwise.
• The hourglass is turned over, and the player who starts asks the player immediately to their left a question to guess what is on their head.
• The player being questioned must answer the question only with "yes", "no" or "maybe", except when playing the variant for younger players (see the section entitled Games for All Ages).
• As soon as an answer has been given, another question must be quickly put to the next player (following clockwise order). Once all opponents have been questioned once, play continues with a second round, then a third, for as long as the time on the hourglass has not run out.
• If you guess the answer before time runs out, take a new card (without looking at the picture), insert it into your headband, and continue asking questions. It is therefore possible to play 2 or even 3 cards during the same turn!
• For each card found, the player returns one of their tokens to the box.
• If a player has not found the picture on their card before time runs out, they keep the card on their headband and wait for their next turn. Then it is the next player's turn.

Giving Up?

At any time during their turn, a player may give up ("donner sa langue au chat", a French idiom meaning to stop guessing). They are penalised and must take one token from the box. They draw a new card and wait for their next turn.

The Winner

The winner is the first player who no longer has any tokens!

Games for All Ages

DEVINE TÊTE is a great game for players of different ages.

• For younger players: the sides of the box contain example questions to help them. These players may then answer these questions with something other than "yes", "no" or "maybe".
• For older players: you may give them more than 3 tokens!