The room is silent. Then, my wife takes a moment to look at her hands of cards. With a smirk, she says aloud "Whew! I'm glad we got out of there". The three other players around the table all look at their cards, brows furrowed. I look at my own hand of cards.

I have some miniature people on a stack of books, a kid with a flute, a picture with flowers, another picture with flowers, and - believe it or not - a picture of a flower that is losing its petals. Everyone else seems to be picking their card, and I don't want to prolong the game more than I have to.

Screw it, I think, and I decide to use one of my flower cards. My wife collects all of our choices then lays them out on the table. We vote on which card we think was Rachael's (by trying to match the picture to the vague sentence). I notice one picture where two people are escaping the mouth of a lizard, so I vote on that one.

But Rachael's card was that of an open prison window at the top of a giant snail shell with a tied-up sheet hanging down to the ground. Some people moved their colored wooden rabbit (or squirrel?) around a point track, and I scratched my head.

This is a game?

If you are the storyteller, your aim is for some (but not all) of the other players players to pick your picture. You won't score points if everyone or no one picks your picture. I suppose this is a balance meant to make sure the storyteller isn't too specific yet isn't too abstract, but in all honesty, it all comes down to the current player's ability to pick a decent sentence that resonates with the group. You could pick a fantastic line for your card, but if no one else gets the reference or if they conceptualize the picture in a different way, then too bad. The other players who add in their cards are attempting to get their own cards picked, which will also earn them points. The first player to race their rabbit/squirrel around the track is crowned "introspective hipster of the week" and they wear a fashionable '60s hat sold to other hipsters by the dozen at their local University's we're-too-cool-for-Abercrombie store.