Pictionary
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| Pictionary | |
|---|---|
| Players | 4 or more |
| Age range | 8 and up |
| Setup time | < 5 minutes |
| Playing time | 1 hour |
| Rules complexity | High |
| Strategy depth | Medium |
| Random chance | High |
| Skills required | Dice rolling, Memory, Team play |
Pictionary is a word guessing board game. The game is played in teams with players trying to identify specific words from their teammates' drawings, much in the manner of Charades. It can be played by four or more players.
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[edit] Objective
Each team moves a token along a track formed by a sequence of squares. Each square has a letter on it. The objective is to reach the end of the track first.
[edit] Gameplay
The team chooses one person to do the drawing; this position rotates with each word. The drawer chooses a card out of a deck of special Pictionary cards and tries to draw pictures which suggest the word printed on the card. The pictures cannot contain any numbers or letters. The teammates try to guess the word the drawing is intended to represent.
There are five types of squares on the board, and each Pictionary card has a list of five words printed on it. Players must draw the word which corresponds to the square on the board on which the team's marker is:
- P - Person/Place/Animal (or any noun) , or related characteristics
- O - Object (things that can be touched or seen)
- A - Action (things that can be performed)
- D - Difficult (challenging words)
- AP - All Play (any type of word)
AP category (and a few other words) are designated as "All Play". For "All Play" the teams compete against each other as well as against the time. Each team designates a player whose purpose will be to draw pictures. The team that guesses the word first gets to advance and take the next turn. If none of the teams guess the word in the allotted time, the turn passes to whichever team should have been next.
[edit] Winning a turn
If a team wins its turn by correctly guessing a drawing inside the time interval, that team then rolls a die and advances that number of squares to take another turn. If the team runs out of the time allotted for guessing a word, that team does not advance and the next team takes a turn.
[edit] World Championship
The world championship in Pictionary took place on February 12th 2005. The winner was Amir Kirolos, 15, of Glasgow, Scotland. Mr. Kirolos defeated Mr. Paul Hendry in a contest which lasted just over 6 hours.
The next World Championship will take place in late 2007.
[edit] See also
- iSketch, a Pictionary-like online game
- Pictionary (1989 game show) and Pictionary (game show), two television shows that were based on Pictionary
- Win, Lose or Draw, a game show with a similar concept to Pictionary
- Pictionary (video game)
- Telephone Pictionary
