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Pictionary
Pictionary is a game first published by Parker Brothers in 1985. The game is played with teams with players trying to identify specific words from their teammates' drawings.
Each team moves their playing piece along a track on the board formed by a sequence of squares, each of which denotes a specific letter. The objective is to reach the end of the track first.
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 words (and a few others) 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.
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.