Draw Your Own Conclusions

Draw Your Own Conclusions Rulebook

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To laugh, draw, and doodle with friends in a COOPERATIVE game of simple shapes.

Clue cards, shape cards, whiteboards, markers, tokens (fame tokens), die.

Place the cards, tokens, markers, die, and whiteboards in the center of your group.
Each player takes 1 whiteboard, 1 marker, 1 clue card, 1 shape card, and 3 fame tokens. (Keep your clue card a secret but place your shape card face-up in front of you).
Write the name of the player sitting to your right on the "guesser" line at the top of your whiteboard. (If you are playing with 7-8 players, write the name of the player two seats to your right.)

Now the fun can begin!

Choose a player to roll the die.
Find the word on your card that corresponds to the die roll.
Write the word on the "answer" space beneath the flap on your whiteboard.
(optional) Write the category on your card in the "category" space of your whiteboard. (You can skip this step to make the game trickier.)

All players attempt to begin a drawing of the word they wrote under the flap BUT you can only draw the shape shown on your card.
Draw up to 5 of your shape. (You can draw 0 shapes if you want.)
Try to only draw parts of the word that your shape might make sense for. (Your friends will add their shapes to your drawing in a minute to help complete the drawing!)

When you have finished adding your shape to the drawing, pass your whiteboard to the player on your left.
When you receive a whiteboard from the player on your right, check if your name is written at the top. If it is, STOP! Do not look under the flap.
If your name is not at the top, lift the flap, check the word, and then return to the draw it step by adding up to 5 of your shape to help complete the drawing.

Players continue drawing their shapes and passing the whiteboard until they receive a whiteboard with their name at the top.
When every player has a whiteboard, it is time to guess what the drawing is!

Choose any player to begin guessing.
That player looks at the drawing in front of them and guesses what they think the drawing is.
If the player guesses right, congratulate them and move to the next player.
If the player guesses wrong, they must return one of their Fame tokens to the center of the group. Don't worry if you guess wrong, you get 3 tries!
After a wrong guess, point to a single shape on your board. The player who drew that tells you, in a single word, what that shape is.
If a player guesses incorrectly 3 times, losing all their tokens, reveal the answer and move on to the next player.
Repeat until all the answers have been revealed.

If you'd like to keep score, these optional rules let you rate your play!

Since Draw Your Own Conclusions is a cooperative game, you will score as a group. Take all the Fame tokens remaining in the possession of all players and distribute them as evenly as possible. Rate your play using the following chart:

Result	Rating
Any player has zero tokens	ART STUDENTS: You need more practice
Every player has at least 1 token	POPULAR LOCAL ARTISTS: You are honing your skills.
Every player has at least 2 tokens	NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED: Way to build a following.
Every player has all 3 tokens remaining	WORLD FAMOUS: Your artistic movement will be chronicled in the annals of history. Well done!