CDSK cheat-sheet

A one-page reference for CDSK (“How well do you know…?”). Players: 2–16 in teams. Time: 20–45 minutes. The twist: you decide how hard a question you’ll face by rating how well you know the topic.

The name is the four categories: Curious, Delightful, Seasoned, Knowledge.

Setup

1. Open the box — the board is ready to go. Question cards can stay in the box (or shuffle them if you like).
2. Split into teams (give newer players bigger teams if needed).
3. The game doesn’t come with team tokens — grab something (coins, buttons, pieces from another game).
4. Put each team’s token at the Classic or Express start (Express is the shorter game).

The four categories

• Curious — precise or bizarre subjects
• Delightful — movies, music, sports, pop culture
• Seasoned — grown-up stuff: weddings, anniversaries, gardening
• Knowledge — science, nature, history, geography, school

On your team’s turn

1. A player from another team draws a card matching the category your token is on and reads out the subject.
2. Your team quickly decides, on a scale of 1 to 10, how well you know that subject, and says the number.
3. The reader asks the question at that number (each card has 10 questions, getting harder as the number goes up).
4. Right → move forward that many spaces. Wrong → stay put.

The gamble

A high number moves you farther but asks a harder question. A low number is a safer few steps. Pick the number to the level you’re actually confident at.

Challenge spaces

Land on a challenge space and another team draws a challenge card instead — often a list of true/false statements where you move forward one space for each one you get right.

Winning

Reach the final space, then answer a “hurry up and win” question. Get it right and you win; miss it and you try again next turn. First team to do it wins.