Picture Pursuit is a great game from Parker Brothers.  It mixes the best part of Trivial Pursuit (the questions and answers) with the best part of the old game show Concentration (opening little doors to reveal a hidden puzzle).  Except in this case, what's hidden behind the doors isn't a puzzle, it's a picture and you have to guess what it is.

Included in this game is a very unique picture-holder.  The picture card slides into the holder.  The front of the holder consists of 12 doors.  When all of the doors are closed, the entire picture card is hidden.  One by one, doors may be opened, revealing the picture card beneath.  How does a team earn the right to open a door?  By correctly answering the trivia questions.  You see, the 12 doors are labeled with six trivia categories - People & Places, Arts & Entertainment, History, Science & Nature, Sports & Leisure, and Wild Card.   So, when your team correctly answers, for instance, a History question, you can open one of the two doors marked History.

If you think you know what the picture is, your team can make a guess.  Guess correctly and your team wins that round.  Guess incorrectly, and the other team gets to take control of the game, attempting to answer questions so that they can open doors, and take a guess at the hidden picture.  Play continues in this fashion until one team wins 6 rounds.

Of course, someone has to know the correct answer.  That person is the "moderator" for the round.  Each round, the moderator changes so that all players have a chance to moderate.  Of course the moderator doesn't get to answer the trivia questions, guess at the picture, or in any way help his team.

So what are the pictures cards like?  Well, there are a few categories - Most of the pictures fall into the categories of "What?", "Who?", and "Where?".  So, for instance, a "What?" picture might be a forkful of spaghetti, a person hang-gliding, or a sunflower.   A "Who?" picture can be Queen Elizabeth, Cher, or Popeye.  A "Where?" picture can be China, Chicago, or the moon.  Some of the pictures are extreme close-ups, like the forkful of spaghetti.  This makes it difficult to ascertain what it is, when only a couple doors are open.  Other pictures are difficult because there's a lot of blank space surrounding the main object.  Like in the case of the sunflower, the flower is off to the right of the card.   So opening doors on the left side of the picture won't help a team at all.  And some of the cards aren't actually pictures.  Instead, each door reveals a clue.  So you might open the first door and see the word "Felix".  You might have no idea what that card is until a second door is opened revealing "Sylvester".  At that point your team might realize that this card is for "Cartoon Cats". 

The picture cards, themselves, are made of plastic-coated cardboard.  Sliding them in and out of the holder definitely causes wear and tear. Several of my cards are bent in the corners.  I do feel they should make the cards sturdier.  There are 104 cards, with pictures on both sides.  So you can play 208 rounds before you've seen all of the pictures.  The viewable portion of the pictures is 4.5" by 3.5".  The pictures are very clear, and of very high quality. 

The trivia questions are the same exact cards as are used in Trivial Pursuit.  Each card contains 6 questions, one from each category, and the answers are on the back. 

I enjoy playing this game.  Solving the hidden pictures definitely adds a level of excitement to Trivial Pursuit.  I just love answering a question correctly, opening one of those little doors, hoping to make sense of what lies underneath.  I recommend this game for teens through adults.

A certified Lean-n-Mean review.

Recommended: Yes

Amount Paid (US$): 15.00
Type of Toy: Board Game