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, nor can the drawers use spoken clues about the subjects they are drawing. 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 then draw the word which corresponds to the square on the board on which the team's marker is: AP category (and a random selection of check-marked words in other categories) 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. One may not point or gesture to an object A one-minute timer, usually a sand timer, is used to compel players to rapidly complete their drawing and guessing. Reception Games included Pictionary in its top 100 games of 1986, saying, "The frequent All Play rounds, in which all teams try to identify the same word, are especially exciting. Artistic talent is not a requirement; ingeniously simple drawings almost always win. The 2,500 color-coded words provide real tests of imagination." Reviews Jeux & Stratégie #53 See also iconary, a Pictionary-like online game where you partner with an AI player iSketch, a Pictionary-like online game Pictionary (1989 game show), Pictionary (1997 game show), and Pictionary (2021 game show). Three television shows that were based on Pictionary Win, Lose or Draw, a game show with a similar concept to Pictionary Fast Draw, a 1968 game show with a similar concept to Win, Lose or Draw and Pictionary Pictionary (video game), a video game based on Pictionary released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990 Draw Something, an asynchronous mobile game with a similar concept Charades, a game that inspired Pictionary where players act out words or phrases References American board games Word board games Guessing games Party board games Roll-and-move board games Products introduced in 1985 Hasbro games Mattel games Western Publishing