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Pictionary
Pictionary is a popular board game created by Robert Angel that consists of figuring out a word from a drawing on paper. The player or team that correctly guesses the most words or phrases wins.[1] The game now has many variations. [2]

The only permitted communication in Pictionary is through drawing: in teams, this means figuring out a word by observing your teammate’s drawings.[1] It is a race against the clock in which the team that guesses the most words wins. The biggest challenges are drawing verbs, obscure words, or abstract nouns.

Description of the boxes
The typical box for the game is dark blue, long, and made of cardboard. The name of the game appears in the middle of the box in big, white letters.[3]

The Pictionary Junior box is the same as the original except for its red color. The box makes it clear that the game is for kids.[4]

The aesthetics of the game have changed in the latest versions. There is a new version called Pictionary Mania. It is quite similar to previous versions, but now in place of notepads, it comes with two magnetic boards that can be easily erased.[5]

Game components[6]

 * A hard gameboard with 55 colored boxes.[1]
 * Four different colored playing pieces.
 * A traditional die.
 * Four notepads for the drawings.
 * Four pencils with built-in erasers.
 * A box full of cards for the game, with 5 concepts on each card. There are approximately 500 cards.
 * A sand-timer to count down.

Rules of the game[6]
Pictionary is very easy to play, following these steps:
 * When putting together teams, you can play with four teams and with two to four players per team. There must be a minimum of two teams, and playing the game with fewer players will make it go by more quickly. Once the teams are selected, each group chooses a colored game piece and then rolls the die to see who goes first. The team with the highest number wins.
 * The significance of each box is as follows:
 * If you land on the orange box, that corresponds to a drawing from the “Action” category. These are often common behaviors, and they are always verbs. Examples of such verbs include: sweat, shout, talk, fight.
 * If you land on the yellow box, that corresponds to a drawing from the “Person/Place/Animal” category. It also includes well-known characters. Some examples of words are: dog, Superman, cabin, Pope.
 * If you land on the green box, that corresponds to a drawing from the “difficult word” category, which, as its name indicates, are the most challenging. Examples of some words include: password, electrocardiogram, principal, encourage, DNA.
 * If you land on the blue box, that corresponds to a drawing from the “Object” category, which are things we can see or touch. Some words that may show up are: axe, cactus, sumo wrestling, star.
 * If you land on the red box, “All Play” means that all teams play to figure out the word. These words do not correspond to a particular category. It is a good time to steal turns. If nobody gets it right, the next turn goes to the next team to the left.
 * If you land on a Wild Square, the drawer can read the whole card and choose the word that seems easiest to guess and draw.[1]
 * Each round, before beginning to draw, you must say which color has been chosen and the corresponding category.
 * The first box is yellow, so all groups must start playing with this color. After passing this first round you can continue rolling the die.
 * Once a team has passed the first round, they roll the die and move to another box according to the number shown. With another person from that group drawing, the clock restarts, and if the team gets it right before the time is up they roll the die again and continue. In other words, a turn does not end when you guess correctly, only when your timer runs out before guessing a word.
 * You only change turns if the word is not guessed in the expected time, or if you lose a turn by landing on the red box signifying “All Play.”
 * In the event that a team does not guess correctly in the given period of time, the team will give up its turn to whichever team is to its left (when playing with more than two teams).
 * In this game, various game pieces may occupy the same box.
 * The team that is the first to reach the final box and guess a new word wins. This box presents the difficulty of being red, meaning one where “All Play.” Evidently, if the team does not figure it out, the turn goes to another team.
 * Optionally, to extend the game, you can decide that the player must go backwards if they do not guess right.

What is permitted in the game?[1]

 * You can highlight parts of the drawing with arrows or circles.
 * You can draw the assigned word according to syllables. For example, if you get the word "test" and do not know how to draw it, you can indicate that you are going to do it by syllables. You begin by drawing something easy that starts with T, like "television." Next, draw something that begins with E, like "eye." Then, draw something that begins with S such as "sun." Finally, draw something else that begins with T such as "taco." As you see, no word is impossible.
 * If you are in charge of drawing a word that is pronounced one way but that can have different meanings, you can choose to draw whichever seems easier. One example would be "hare" in terms of the animal: you can draw "hair" as it would appear on a person's head. The goal is to make your teammates pronounce the desired word.
 * In the same way, you can decide to draw a phrase containing the desired word. Again, the goal is for the assigned word to be pronounced. For example, if the game gives you the word “cotton” and your team guesses the phrase “cotton picker,” you win the round since the word was pronounced.

What is not permitted in the game?[1]

 * Providing the number of letters in a word.
 * Using letters and numbers in the drawings.
 * Talking, as the drawer must remain silent.
 * You cannot change words until you get it right or the time runs out.
 * Gestures with your hands or face that indicate how close the participant is to the answer.

Video game [2]
In 1989, Pictionary launched a video game version for all computer formats of the time: ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS. The video game was true to the original table game, which included a drawing tool that could be handled well by the players or by the computer so that everyone could play.

At the end of 2010, a version of Pictionary was launched for Nintendo Wii. To play, you needed to have the uDraw GameTablet.