Story Dice. A generator of ideas to create stories

Last updated on 30 May 2022

How to use your students’ imagination during a writing exercise? Story Dice is a small, simple and free online tool that will help you develop their imagination and creative mind.

It is an online virtual dice game. Dice bearing small random illustrations. Roll them with a click and then let students or trainees play. It is a question of imagining a story that involves the various objects present on the dice. Playful and creative.

A good way to make your imagination work

Story Dice is a classic story idea generator available for free in your browser. As a creative exercise, it is a great way to make your imagination work. It is a process often used in writing workshops to develop the creative spirit. The more you train yourself to turn dice invitations into stories, the more you are able to tell stories and formulate your own ideas.

In Story Dice you have at your disposal a game of five or nine dice. Each document contains more than 50 possibilities in the form of small, very explicit drawings. With one click, the dice are rolled. The next step is to imagine a story in which each object has a place in the narrative by trying to work in the order in which they appear on the screen.

You do not have to take the image literally either. You can use the dice metaphorically or as a representation of other concepts. For example, a portion of pizza may represent food in general …

When to use this online story idea generator?

There are many uses. For oneself or for one's students:

• As a regular creative exercise to develop storytelling skills.
• As a warm-up in an idea generation or group brainstorming session.
• As a game to entertain children and help them develop their imagination

It’s up to you to invent others. Another way ofimproving students’ written expression ?

Story Dice is free and without registration.

Use the idea generator with 5 dice.
Use the game with 9 dice.