Nine Lives: The Idiom Origins Game

Welcome to Nine Lives 😺

Welcome to Nine Lives! Guess the true origin story. Stay alive. 

Bucket list, peeping Tom, red herring... Nine Lives takes you back in time to investigate the fascinating and downright bizarre origins of these popular phrases — and hundreds more!

But tread carefully… Choose a false origin story and you’ll edge one life closer to elimination.

Make the right calls. Conquer the mini-games. Outwit your opponents.

Only one survives Nine Lives.

How to Play 📖

Players: 2-9 (or more in teams)

Duration: Roughly 45 minutes though a shorter “Three Lives” version takes around 20 minutes.

NO AI: This game — its concept, research, card-writing, box design, and illustrations — is the product of a small group of people and their obsessions. Not Artificial Intelligence.

The Special Cards 🐈

• The popular linguistic content creator RobWords has given his backing! 

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"Replayability?!" I hear you ask. 

That was our main concern during development... and that's why we made 400 cards!

Even the most hardcore idiomaniacs who finally reach the end after dozens of games will likely have forgotten plenty of answers by the time they circle back to the start.

But if your memory serves you better than mine does, and you're still hungry more etymological fun... that's where the expansion packs come in.

Expansion Packs ✨

Pledge Levels 🎁

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The Nine Lives Mission 🎯