Pictionary

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Pictionary

Pictionary is a guessing word game

Word game

Word games and puzzles are generally engaged as a source of Entertainment, but they have been found to serve a very useful and progressive Education purpose as well....
published in 1985

1985 in games

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. The game is played with team

Team

A team comprises a groups of people or animals linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks....
s with player

Player (game)

A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games....
s trying to identify specific word

Word

A word is a unit of language that represents a concept which can be expressively communication with Meaning . A word consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together, and has a phonetic value....
s from their teammates' drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
s.

team moves a piece on a game board formed by a sequence of squares

Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
. Each square has a letter

Letter (alphabet)

A letter is an element in an alphabetic system of writing, such as the Greek alphabet and its descendants. Each letter in the written language is usually associated with one phoneme in the spoken form of the language....
or shape identifying the type of picture to be drawn on it. The objective is to be the first team to reach the last space on the board.

team chooses one person to begin drawing; this position rotates with each word.

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Objective

Each team moves a piece on a game board formed by a sequence of squares

Square (geometry)

In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular polygon with four equal sides and four equal angles . A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted ....
. Each square has a letter

Letter (alphabet)

Gameplay

The team chooses one person to begin drawing; this position rotates with each word. The drawer chooses a card

Card

The term card , primarily refers to cardboard or a piece of this.More generally, the term can refer to any of various small flat objects, typically made from heavy paper or plastic....
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 number

Number

A number is a mathematical object used in counting and measurement. A notational symbol which represents a number is called a Numeral system, but in common usage the word number is used for both the abstract object and the symbol, as well as for the numeral for the number....
s 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
Person

The term person in common usage means an individual human being. In the fields of law, philosophy, medicine, and others, the term also has specialised context-specific meanings....
/Place
Place

A place is a location in space.Place may refer to:* Place , an equivalence relation defined on absolute values of an integral domain or field...
/Animal
Animal

Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the Kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life....
(or any noun
Noun

In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open class lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition....
) , or related characteristics
O - Object
Object (philosophy)

In philosophy, an object is a thing, an entity, or a being. This may be taken in several senses.In its weakest sense, the word object is the most all-purpose of nouns, and can replace a noun in any sentence at all....
(things that can be touched or seen)
A - Action (things that can be perform
PerForm

PerForm and PerForm PRO were electronic forms program, initially designed to work under Graphical Environment Manager in DOS. Later versions of this program were designed to work on Windows 3.1, at which point it was succeeded in its product line by FormFlow....
ed)
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. 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, the turn passes to whichever team should have been next.

A one-minute sand timer is used to compel players to rapidly complete their drawing and guessing.

Winning a turn

If a team wins its turn by correctly guessing a drawing inside the time interval, that team then rolls a die

Dice

A die is a small polyhedron object, usually cubic, used for generating Statistical randomnesss or other symbols. This makes dice suitable as gambling devices, especially for craps or sic bo, or for use in non-gambling tabletop games....
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. Also if the drawing member of a team does not draw the right picture and the team guesses what s/he is drawing and s/he is caught, then that turn is rewarded to the next team in line.

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Pictionary

Objective

Gameplay

Winning a turn

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