Drei Magier / Schmidt
Dodelido
★★★★⯨4.5 / 5 – editorial rating
Say what appears most often – color? Animal? Or "Dodelido"? Sounds easy. It isn't.
age 8+2–6 playersapprox. 15 min.
FlexibilityImpulse controlLanguage
How it plays
Players reveal cards onto three piles in turn and must instantly call out what appears most often: the majority color or the majority animal. On a tie: "Dodelido!" With a turtle: add "Oh!" in front. Hesitate, stutter or call it wrong, and you collect all the cards. First player with none left wins.
What it trains
Dodelido demands category switches by the second (color? animal? count?), majority comparisons and suppression of the obvious-but-wrong answer – with special rules butting in for good measure. It trips up even practiced adult brains and trains precisely that mental switching ability.
Community voices: A big hit in the Drei Magier line; reviews highlight how spectacularly adults fail – kids get to feel like true equals. The sentence that keeps recurring in ratings: "So simple, so mean, so funny."
Our tip for parents: Brilliant for family rounds: parents make glorious mistakes too – which takes the pressure off the kids.
Especially good for
- Families who can laugh at themselves
- Flexibility training from age 8
- Teen and adult groups – a popular nightcap game
Less suitable for
- Kids who freeze up when speaking under pressure
- Anyone embarrassed by mistakes – everyone makes them here
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