Rory's Story Cubes - Mystery (ML)

Rory's Story Cubes - Mystery turns nine dice into the starting point for terrifying investigations, untold secrets and puzzles that seem impossible to solve. Roll the dice, look at the nine images and let your imagination discover the connections. A strange object can become a clue, a character may be hiding a secret and an unexplained situation can suddenly launch an entire paranormal adventure. You decide what really happened.

The idea behind this storytelling game is deliberately approachable. After rolling all nine dice, you tell a story that connects every face-up image. Symbols can represent items, characters, places or animals, but their true meaning depends on your interpretation. There is only one fundamental rule: there are no wrong answers. The same roll might therefore inspire a chilling tale for one player and a completely silly investigation for another.

The Mystery edition gives the Story Cubes formula a distinctive personality. Its images are designed to inspire unexplained situations, untold secrets and seemingly unsolvable puzzles. You can create an investigation, tell a paranormal tale or imagine an adventure where every new image becomes another clue to incorporate. The result is an imagination game where nobody knows how the story will end until the final symbol finds its place.

Rory's Story Cubes - Mystery is for you if you enjoy mysteries, strange tales and games that provide almost complete creative freedom. You can tell stories alone, improvise with friends or create adventures together as a family. The rules are quick to learn, no lengthy setup is required and up to 12 players can participate, making it a creative family game that is remarkably easy to bring to the table.

The Story Cubes range also makes it easy to adapt storytelling to your group. The official website suggests using three dice for the setup, three for the development and three for the conclusion of a story. Multiple Story Cubes sets can also be mixed together to create new combinations. Mystery becomes even more unpredictable when its puzzles and strange phenomena collide with images from other Rory's Story Cubes sets.

Rory's Story Cubes - Mystery was released in 2019 and brings together the themes of three earlier three-die sets: Clues, Fright and Strange. This combination helps explain its distinctive world of clues, scares and bizarre phenomena. The game also encourages creativity and language development, turning every investigation into a spontaneous exercise in expression and improvisation.

The Rory's Story Cubes concept was created by Rory O'Connor, who is also credited as the artist for this edition on BoardGameGeek. In 2004, O'Connor began exploring how simple images could spark the imagination before the concept evolved into dice covered with symbols. Mystery gives that idea an especially fitting playground: just a handful of pictograms can launch a mystery story filled with clues, questions and unexpected twists.

BOX CONTENTS
9 dice
1 rulebook

Number of players: 1 to 12
Playing time: less than 15 minutes
Age: 6+