Fantasy High
Set cover artwork
Quibble™ · Storytelling card game
Mix and match cards to create a new and unique world.
Create an interesting and plausible story from the words on the cards you draw.
- Players
- 1–12
- Cards
- 52
- Starting hand
- 4 cards
Quibble Updated card artwork
01 The deck
52 cards. Five types.
A Scenario begins the story. People, Places, Objects and Verb actions give you the words to continue it.
Scenario
5The phrase that starts the story.
S · 5 cardsPeople
6The people in your story.
Pe · 6 cards
Place
11The places in your story.
Pl · 11 cards
Object
14The objects in your story.
O · 14 cardsVerb action
16The actions in your story.
A · 16 cards
02 How to play
Start with a scenario.
Choose a starting phrase, deal the cards, and build story paths together.
Choose the scenario
Place one of the five Scenario cards face-up. Draw it at random or choose it by agreement.
Deal four cards each
Shuffle all the remaining cards together. Deal four to every player, or just to yourself for solo play.
Oldest player first
The oldest player starts, followed by the second oldest, and so on.
Add one card
Place a card from your hand above, below, left or right of a card already in play. The first card goes beside the Scenario.
Check the card types
Cards of the same type may not be adjacent to each other in a story path.
Read your story path
Use the words on the cards. Between cards, you may add at most one connecting word: a pronoun, preposition or contraction. You don’t have to add one.
03 A turn in practice
One scenario. Two story paths.
The example wording from Rules 4.0, shown in a teaching diagram modeled on the updated card design.
A group of friends travel on a flying shipScenario
Start hereTravelingVerb
Path A · VerbCloudsObject
Path B · ObjectCards can branch from the same scenario.
Path A · Scenario + Verb
“A group of friends travel on a flying ship traveling.”
The first player adds Traveling. No connecting word is needed.
Path B · Scenario + Object
“A group of friends travel on a flying ship through Clouds.”
The next player adds Clouds beside the Scenario. “Through” is the connecting preposition.
04 The challenge
Declare
“Quibble.”
If you disagree with a card placement, you can challenge it before the winner is declared.
Defend the story
The challenged player can defend their story path or cancel the move by flipping their card face-down.
Resolve the challenge
If the player stands by the story, resolve the challenge with a vote. An accepted card stays in play.
A rejected card blocks the path
If the move is rejected, the card is flipped face-down and that player’s turn ends. A cancelled or rejected card blocks that space in the story.
05 The worlds
Fantasy High & Apocalyptic.
Set cover artwork. The updated card designs are shown in the card-type overview.
Apocalyptic
Set cover artwork
06 At the table
Quibble in play.
Playtesting showed that a four-player game averaged 20 minutes.
Playtest timing from Rules 4.0; not a fixed game length. Photos show an earlier card design.
Can two cards of the same type touch?
Cards of the same type may not be adjacent in a story path. A Place cannot be beside another Place along that path, for example.
Can I add words of my own?
Use the words on the cards, with at most one connecting word between cards. It must be a pronoun, preposition or contraction. A connecting word is optional.
What if my hand is empty?
When you have no cards left in your hand, you may draw one card from the deck and play that card when it is your turn.
Can I play solo?
Yes. Rules 4.0 supports solitaire play: choose a face-up Scenario and deal yourself four cards from the shuffled remaining deck.