Gameplay in Brief:
In Pictionary, one player tries to get his teammates to guess what he's drawing (such as an umbrella or a school bus). If successful, that player's team is able to move forward on the track. The first team to reach the finish wins.
Basics:
For 4 to 16 players (divided into teams), ages 12 and up. About 60 to 90 minutes per game.
Designer:
Pictionary was designed by Rob Angel.
Publisher:
Pictionary was published by Parker Brothers, which is now owned by Hasbro, in 1985. Versions have also been published by about a dozen other companies, including Mattel.
Television Show:
Pictionary was turned into a short-lived television game show in 1997-98, hosted by Alan Thicke. (A Pictionary television game show for children aired in 1989.) The 1987-1990 game show Win, Lose or Draw, hosted by Bert Convy, owed a lot of its inspiration to Pictionary.
Why Pictionary is Part of the Games Timeline:
Pictionary is to party games what Trivial Pursuit is to trivia games -- it started a craze in the mid-1980s.
