Pictionary is a Guessing word game published in 1985. The game is played with teams with players trying to identify specific words from their teammates' drawings. For scale drawings or plans, see Plans (drawings). ... For the River in the North-East of England, see River Team. ... For other uses, see Word (disambiguation). ... Tug of war is an easily organized, impromptu game that requires little equipment. ... see also: 1984 in games, 1986 in games Games Released or Invented in 1985 Advanced Squad Leader Game awards given in 1985 Spiel des Jahres: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective - Raymond Edwards, Suzanne Goldberg and Gary Grady, Kosmos See also 1985 in video gaming Categories: 1985 ... For the River in the North-East of England, see River Team. ... A player of a game is a participant therein. ... For other uses, see Word (disambiguation). ... For scale drawings or plans, see Plans (drawings). ...

Objective

Each team moves an object 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. WordNet gives four main senses for the English noun object: a physical entity; something that is within the grasp of the senses; an aim, target or objective — see Object (task); a grammatical Object — either a direct object or an indirect object the focus of cognitions or feelings. ... For other uses, see Square. ... A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... An objective or goal is a personal or organizational desired end point in development. ...

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. The term round-robin describes correspondence authored or signed by numerous individuals to a single addressee. ... Look up card in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Number (disambiguation). ...

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. For other uses, see Person (disambiguation). ... Look up Place in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Animal (disambiguation). ... In linguistics, a noun or noun substantive is a lexical category which is defined in terms of how its members combine with other grammatical kinds of expressions. ... The word characteristic has several meanings: In mathematics, see characteristic (algebra) characteristic function characteristic subgroup Euler characteristic method of characteristics In genetics, see characteristic (genetics). ... WordNet gives four main senses for the English noun object: a physical entity; something that is within the grasp of the senses; an aim, target or objective — see Object (task); a grammatical Object — either a direct object or an indirect object the focus of cognitions or feelings. ... ...

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. Dice (the plural of die, from Old French de, from Latin datum something given or played [1]) are small polyhedral objects, usually cubical, used for generating random numbers or other symbols. ...

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
• Primtionary, a Second Life game dimitra

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External links

• Pictionary at BoardGameGeek