Date:
1986.
Publisher:
Parker Brothers, which is now owned by Hasbro.
Designer:
Pictionary was designed by Rob Angel.
Why It's Significant (in 25 words or less):
Pictionary is to party games what Trivial Pursuit is to trivia games -- it started a craze in the mid-1980s.
More About Pictionary:
In Pictionary, one player tries to get his teammates to guess what he's drawing (e.g. umbrella, school bus). If successful, that player's team is able to move forward on the track. The first team to reach the finish wins.
Pictionary was also a short-lived television game show in 1997-98, hosted by Alan Thicke. (A Pictionary 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.
