Pros: Simple rules and fun Cons: Can get slow if more than two teams are playing.
My family has been into games of all sorts for years. Recently, I was given Pictionary from my children for my birthday. We immediately went to try out the game to relatively tame reviews. It's not that it wasn't fun, it's just that we have been ...
Pros: fun for everyone, drawing game, brings out the creativity in people Cons: sometimes can become intense
Pictionary is quite an interesting game. The whole premise behind it, is that you are partnered with someone, and you try to guess what the person is drawing. The game play is set up to be a 4-player game, and thus makes it not possible to get a fun game ...
Pros: Fun, interactive and challenging Cons: You and your teammate will laugh as well as fight!
We have always been a board game family and lately we have been having “game nights” at my religious organization. I have had the chance of bringing out some of my favorite games. Pictionary tops the list. It is the one game that my 3 adult children...
Pros: Not too many pieces. Plenty of word cards. Cons: Can be frustrating.
Somehow when there's children around, you accumulate all sorts of board games and toys. Some of them they have because of their popularity and some are old time favorites which their parents enjoyed and the games are the same such as Scrabble, Monopoly, ...
Pros: No need to be an artist to play. Good game for parties and family gatherings. Cons: many things hard to draw in 60 seconds
I am by no means an artist, but I have always been pretty good at Pictionary. You just need to draw fast and it also helps if your partners know how your mind works.
Your goal is to have your team to reach the end of the board before the...
Pros: fast moving game, good for large groups. Cons: drawings can get a bit dirty, if your friends are like ours!
It's a Saturday night. You've already ate dinner, chatted about the humdrum of life, and watched some really pathetic television. And so, now your small group of friends is pretty much just sitting around the living room, looking at each other and...
Pros: Fun, Number of players, Fun, Takes thinking. Cons: Price, thats about it.
Pictionary is definitely a great game in certain situations. The game is really fun, a great number of players can play, and when drawing the pictures you must think hard at what to draw. If you've never heard of this game, just continue and you'll...
Pros: Loads of fun! Cons: Must draw and have people understand your drawings!
After becoming parents, my husband and I became nerds. I suppose we were never among the hippest of crowds, but it is really bad now. For instance, a big Friday night for us is when we dress Ty in his pajamas, order pizza and invite our buddies over...
Pros: Use your hidden drawing talents Cons: May cause sore throat from too much laughter
This is my favorite party game. The game allows for two to four different teams to compete against each other. The game includes 4 player chips, 4 pencils and 4 sets of paper pads, a sand timer (~2 minutes for sketching time), 1 deck of cards to draw...
Pros: A team game that makes you think, but not too hard. Cons: The version we played had a sand timer.
Pictionary is one of those games almost anyone can play. The only requirement is that you be able to read, and be able to sorta kinda draw. Basics You're given a word and you have to get your teammate to say that word by giving them drawn ...
Pros: FUN!!! Kids get to use their imagination! Cons: none
Before I played Pictionary, I played Pictionary, Junior. I always loved to draw and play charades, so my parents bought me Pictionary, Junior, which is a combination of the both. My parents used to always play the game with my brother and I and they...
Pros: fun adult game, lots of action, keeps interest Cons: need lots of pencils
The first thing I want to say about this great couples game is that I am the grand master. I must have played over 100 times and can only remember a few times that I have lost. (Does anyone what to challenge me?) Yes, I know, It also depends on who my...
Pros: A very enjoyable game--not too competitive Cons: you have to have more than 2 players to play correctly
Before having children, my husband and I would get together with other couples and play games such as pictionary for an evening of fun. Pictionary Jr. is similar only a little easier.
I purchased this game for my 4th grade classroom last...
Pictionary is fun for friends and the entire family. You need to have a partner for this couples game and the more couples you have the better the game becomes. Using only a pencil and a piece of paper, your partner must draw a picture of the item...
This is a huge hit with my family. We play it often when all of the generations get together.
It is really a simple game that never gets old. You have a board, dice, timer, cards, paper, and pencil. You have two teams. The first team rolls the...
Pictionary is one of the oldest party games out there, and it's long success has been due to a simple design and a simple concept...that people can't draw worth a darn. While that might sound insulting or...
Pros: Really fun, expands your imagination Cons: None!
When my family gets together we always play some kind of game before and during dessert. While I think their favorite is Scrabble, but Pictionary is my favorite.
For anyone that is not familiar with the game, you split up into...
I remember staring at the paper like it was yesterday. Could it be a mountain? Perhaps a electrical storm. I had only a matter of seconds to figure out what my mom was trying to draw.
She would draw a couple of lines on the paper and then...
Pros: Lots of Fun! Cons: Need to replace paper often
Years ago when Pictionary first came out, I purchased it for myself. At the time, I was in my twenties and had gatherings with other twenty-somethings who would come over to spend the evening. We had a great time playing this game.
Pros: Very entertaining Cons: you need atleast 4 people
Want a fun, eventful, exciting, full of fun evening? Then you want to play the game Pictionary.
This game is one of the most exciting games ever made. This is an either a great party game or a fun stay at home with the family game. This game turns a...
Remember those little stick people and big bulbous apple trees you could draw by about the fourth grade? Well, that's about where my artistic development ended. Don't even ask me to draw you a human hand that doesn't look like something that stopped...
Pictionary is a game that is excellent for groups. This game is a lot like Charades. First you split up into groups. Each group has a pad of paper, and a pencil. You draw a card that has the name of an item, person etc. one person has to draw a picture...
Here is a game that will fill the room with laughter. Team up with another against at least one other team, and you are ready to go. Hilarity is the result of trying to draw pictures of what the card tells you that you are to draw.
I purchased this game when it first came on the market. It reminded me of a desk version of the TV show,"Win,Loose,& Draw". My family and I have had many fun filled hours laughing at our own drawings!
This is a great party or fun night game. Needs a minimum of 4 people to really make this fun-teams of 2 or more compete against each other and win points by drawing the clue. Artistic skills are not necessary, partly because there is no time for creating...
This is a wonderful game for families. I have played this game with my family on holidays and get-togethers since I was a child. It lets you explore your creative ability, and enjoy quality time with friends and family. We can never play just one...
Pros: great fun even if you cannot draw well- Cons: for me the geography questions
We bought this game when my daughter was born because we knew we would be staying home alot. We knew our friends would be coming over more often than we would be going to their house.
This is a very fun team oriented game that you must have...
Pros: fun to play with a large group of people, enhances drawing ability Cons: can get loud from having so much fun
Pictionary is one of those games to play when you have a large group of people, 10+. You split into two teams, place the board in the middle and just get started.
How to win? You have to get your piece to the end of the board before the...
Pros: Lots of fun, competition, fast pace game! Cons: none
"What is THAT!" you scream as your partner draws a crummy picture on the little pad of paper... hurry time is running out you better guess what that scribbly thing is!! Aw too bad. Well, so what if you or your partner can't draw! This game...
Pros: encourages creativity Cons: can be frustrating at times
Following closely on the heels of the original Pictionary game, is it's counterpart designed for younger kids, Pictionary Junior. It's intended audience is children in the age range of about seven to twelve. The game consists of cards which include...
Pros: FUN, exciting, even if you can't draw well it isn't hard Cons: Some of the words or phrases can be difficult
I got this game QUITE a few years ago as a gift from a friend. It is addicting! The more players you have, the more fun it is! Everyone gets all excited because time is running out and they are trying to draw or guess depending on what they are doing at...
Pros: Fun for all ages, very interactive, simple rules Cons: May not be good when the baby is sleeping
airplane?! fish?! submarine?! ok it has flippers...frog...time's up. "WHAT WERE YOU DRAWING?" "I was drawing a tadpole! If you guys had gotten the frog sooner, I would have led you back to the egg, and then in between was tadpole"...
This game was a must have. I loved the tv show, Win Lose or Draw. The game of Pictionary was sort of a chance to play it at home with the family. My husband is an artist and draws beautiful animals etc. But do you think he can draw a simple stick figure...
Pictionary Junior is a cool game according to one of its young players. It has cards with four choices on it such as bucket, bread, claw, and tractor. The player has pick one to draw for the other players. Then they have to guess which one it is...
Pros: Can be played by anyone. Cons: Some people hate to draw at all.
Pictionary is one of the games which helped to introduce board games into social activities and parties. It is a wonderful game that is not only great for families, but for just adults as well.
This game is a very fast paced, easy and fun game to play. The game consists of pencil, paper, timer, subject cards, a little bit of artistry,an open mind and a sense of humor! The object of the game is for each team (consisting of 2 or more...
Pros: Good partners produce good results!! Fun game with friends and families Cons: Big groups are tough to play with!! Some catagories suck!!
This is especially fun for punks who have, er, had some cocktails before playing. It's fun no matter how you play it, though it is frustrating when you pick a card and end up having to draw some sort of intangible concept such as...
Pros: Drawing fun, laughing, and mind provoking Cons: run out of paper and loose the small paper
If you have ever seen the show on TV and liked it, then you will love the game. The object is for you and your partner to get around the whole board first, but you have to win the challenges of each square. You might land on ACTION, you will then have...
Pros: fun for a group Cons: Impossible things to draw sometimes
Even though I can't draw, this game is very fun and exciting when a group gets together to play. The best part of the game is trying to figure out what that guy is trying to draw, especially when it doesn't look like much more than chicken scratch. ...
Pros: Fun of The Drink Cons: Laugh so hard you might pass out
This Game is a blast to play....It had been a few years ince i played this game, and a few weeks ago at and office Christmas party while we were drinking the corona extra and the "Fruit Punch" we decided we wanted to play this game. I had never...
Pros: promotes creativity Cons: needs four or more players
Can you draw a cat? How about sketching something that conveys the word area or The English Patient? Can you do it in less than 60 seconds while your team yells the wrong answers at you and the other team is close to getting it right? Welcome to the game...
Pros: Fun, challenging... will keep everyone laughing! Cons: (none)
When my friends and I decide to get together and play Pictionary, we know we're in for a fun evening filled with laughter! This is pretty much how it works: you're in teams, trying to get from start to finish on the board by drawing and guessing a...
Pros: Fun, creative, fast-paced, a classic game Cons: Must have good art skills?!
This classic game is one of the best board games that i've played. The only skill that is required is good art skills and good guessing skills (but the art skills don't really apply if you're teamed with a good guesser).
Pictionary is one of the best party games I have ever played. The more people you have - the more fun you will have. Laughter will come very easy when watching people try to draw something without saying it. Most people cannot draw well especially...
Pros: Computer pictionary great! Cons: board game boring
When my daughters were younger I bought Pictionary. But soon found out that it was to complicated for children under 7yrs old. So here was another game that was No longer played with. Waste of the good money spent on it. Then just recent for Christmas...
Pros: encourages creative thinking Cons: not recommended for the artistically challenged.
This is another in a long line of game shows turned board game (or is it the other way around?). The difference here is that the game show translated very well into a board game.
The object of this game is to draw on an eraseable board the...
Pros: pure entertainment, great family or friends night game Cons: some of the words I have never heard of, may need dictionary
This game is so much fun to play. It is one of my all time favorites. The object of the game is to draw a picture of the word you picked from a large deck of cards. If you get it right you begin to make your way around the board using the dice. You ...
This phrase has been screamed out many times by the group whenever I have played the game of Pictionary in the past. This game has a rather simple concept as you have to draw whatever the word on the card is and your partner has to try to guess...
This is a classic game that everyone loves! They didn't used to have a kids version, but I loved it when I got mine for Christmas as an 8 year old constantly complaining of being "bored" or having nothing to do.
Pros: Easily Understood, Enjoyable With No Upper Age Limit Cons: If it costs too much, make your own!
I think everyone I know loves Pictionary. You pick your surprise 'assignment' and draw it out. You never know what you will get, and the 'audience' must guess what the heck you are trying to draw! Think you draw well enough to make this a breeze?...
Even if you can't draw, this game is loads of fun. Divide the family up in teams and sharpen those pencils. This game will have you laughing in no time. The first team picks a person to draw first and they pick a card. Their position on the board...
Pros: laughter and enjoyment Cons: 4 or more player's only.Too many makes it a slower game.
The first time I played pictionary about 5 years ago...I was hooked.I love to invite my family and friends over for a game.
The board has different colors and which ever one you land on you have to pick a card you get three choices and then after...
Pros: Fun! Good icebreaker at party Cons: needs a group
This is a great family or group game for teens and adults. Some of the most fun I've had with it has been at parties, and a real comraderie between the player develops.
The premise is simple. Its reminiscent of charades. The players are...
Pros: Fun time with friends Cons: Can last for hours
On Friday nights my girl friends and I would get together and play Pictionary. We would have the most fun. It was a nice way to spend quality time with your friends while the husbands were watching some kind of sport on television.
I remember one Saturday night about a year ago, My husband and I invited to of our friends and familys over, and there was absolutely nothing for us to do, I remember pulling one of my friends to the side on many occasions and asking her to go in with me...
Pros: Fun, Creativity, Exercise, Family bonding Cons: You'll need a nap afterwards! Whew!
What a game! Gather a group together and plan for a night of loud and wacky, unpredictable fun. This is so great for parties, hosted by adults or teens alike. Or for a night of family fun.
Break into teams, pick a card, and draw the...
Pros: such a fun game! Cons: none, except if you cant draw!
I am an awful artist but I still love to play Pictionary. You do not need to be very good at drawing, you do however need to be creative. You need a minimum of four players, two for each team. The object of the game is to draw a picture of an item in...
Pros: fast paced & exciting Cons: breaking pencils & losing your voice
Is it Friday night yet? Every Friday is game night at my sister-in-laws house. For the last few Friday's the game has been pictionary. After the dinner dishes are cleared, out come the pencils and the pencil sharpeners.
You don't even need to...
Pros: social game, different every time Cons: none that come to mind
Pictionary is another game that's a lot of fun at parties or with groups of friends. Working in teams to figure out what someone is drawing is a good way to get to know people you may have only met a few minutes before, and also is a good way to get your...
Pictionary is one of those classic games of your childhood and on through your adulthood that you will always cherish and remember with a smile. this game is fairly simple as all you have to do is draw a picture and your team has to guess what it is....
Pros: Fun, exciting game for the whole family Cons: none
We purchased Pictionary Jr. last year as a Christmas present for our eight year old daughter. She had played the game at a cousin's house and enjoyed it enough to put it on her list. Now, a year later, it remains a favorite in our house. It's a great...
Pros: Great team game and fun Cons: Heaven help you if you play with a dunce
I love playing pictionary, and its really only as good as who you are playing with.
The object of the game is simple: your team must make it to the end of the board game first, progressing by guessing the drawing your team makes in the given...
Pros: This is a game for the whole family. Cons: Looking stupid!
Now this is a game where you choose a card and act it out and family and friends guess what or who you are.This is so much fun i have played this and we played for hours and hours.This is a game for lots of people and you can play it anytime you want...
Pros: Great game for adults or the whole family. Everyone gets involved in the game. Cons: May reveal poor artistic abilities and odd thinking patterns - usually by spouse.
This game has been a family classic. A room full of people and this game can't help but have fun. Its best played when using an easel or large wipeboard so everyone can see each other's artwork.
This game, for me at least, was almost an aerobic exercise. If not from the laughter alone then from the posture. While our team was drawing who could sit still? My hands were moving and I was standing over my teammates shoulder so as not to miss a...
Ok, my dad has a Masters in Engineering and he can't draw. He hates playing this game, but the rest of us love it! This game is a classic! It's pure family fun, it's very creative and you have to use your brain to get your point across to your teammate....
Pros: Great party game Cons: You need at least four people to play
Okay, so your friends came over and everyone is sitting around staring at the walls. Can't think of anything to say? What can you do? Well you could turn on the television. Or maybe you could play a game? How about Pictionary?
All of a sudden...
Pros: Easy, Fun, Enjoyable Cons: not too many pictures to choose from
This game causes so many arguments when you are playing with partners and friends, because what one person sees as something, the other one does not. The object of this game is to draw pictures for people and they have to try and figure out what the...
Pros: A WHOLE LOTTA FUN Cons: potential for frustration if you and your partner don't think alike
I really enjoy a good game of Pictionary. Some friends and I have started playing this and other games pretty regularly. Pictionary seems to be the favorite, but we keep finding ourselves drawing the same things over and over now . . . we need new sets...
Pros: Fun, you get very creative Cons: frustrating
This game can provide hours of fun. If you're just sitting around with some friends with nothing to do this game is a great entertainment provider. You chose teams and your goal is to get your game piece to the end of the playing board first by getting...
Pros: educational, whole family fun Cons: reading is required
This is one of a few adult games that makes the transition to a childrens version easily without losing any of what made it a hit to begin with. Our family loves to play games, and this is one of our kids' favorites. With two levels of difficulty, this...
Pros: When everyone gets to play it is a fun, challenging game. Cons: Can be played so that not everyone gets a chance.
The first three times I played Pictionary, I never got a chance to play!
The couple that owned the game demanded the first chance to play. Since they had been practicing,and a right answer means an extra turn, they were the only ones who...
Pictionary is not really a difficult game but if you can't draw things that other people will know, it can be a very frustrating game. YOU know what you drew but you have to make your partner know it too!
Pros: bonding game, fun for most Cons: must be artistic
I completely disagree with the comment that you do not need to be a great artist in order to enjoy this game. For me, someone who can only draw stick figures, and even then has trouble, this game is torture. Every time someone decides to play this...
Pros: Great fun, no skill required Cons: None, great game all around
This game never ceases to be enjoyable when you have the people to play it. Everything is drawable even if you're completely unskilled (although you have to be a little creative). The rules are simple, one person draws, the other guesses what the thing...
Pros: Good fun, Can be very funny Cons: A bit pricey for what you get
Pictionary has been around for long time now, but it still can bring life into any get together. It is not as old as Monopoly or Life , but it was one of the first popular game to break the mold of the standard board game.
Before Pictionary most...
Pros: A solid, basic party game, good for large teams. Cons: Not exactly an original concept.
There are several party games that no household should be without: Apples to Apples, Scattergories, Taboo and Pictionary. These games are all guaranteed crowd-pleasers. They're simple, they accommodate large numbers of players easily, and they depend...
Pros: good for variety of ages,simple rules,good team game Cons: should include chalk board for drawings
Are stick figures the height of your artistic talents? No pastels,charcoal pencils, or watercolors ever touch your hand? Are your drawings the ones that were put up on the fridge just to make you feel good? Then you are perfect to play Pictionary!! No...
Pros: need no skills to play Cons: need at least 4 people for a good game
I purchased Pictionary as a birthday gift for my husband 4 years ago. It is one of the best games I have ever purchased. Anytime we have guests over, out comes the pictionary game. Everyone seems to love it. Artistic ability varies from person to person,...
How good can you draw? That is the question when you are playing pictionary. It is really a fun game to play. It makes a great game for parties. Hours and hours of fun and laughter.
It is really an easy game to play. You first pick your...
Pros: cost should be reasonable, easy to learn, good for large groups, entertaining Cons: older game, sometimes people forget we have it
This game has been out long enough , many times you can find it for under $10 these days, so at that price is definately a good game for you to have in your "stable of games" if you enjoy getting together with friends to play games every so...
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