It s tempting to call Pictionary charades for artists, but really, it just isn t true.
Artists take time, they select materials, they try to express inner meaning through an outer form.
Created in 1987, this board game took the old charades concept and put it in writing. Printed on the hundreds of individual Pictionary cards were words and phrases of varying difficulty, and competing teams of players had to guess the words within the falling-sand time limit. Instead of charades pantomimes, however, Pictionary had one team member draw pictures to represent the word or phrase while the others shouted out guesses. It sounded simple enough for something like bird or door, but you try putting freedom or The Gettysburg Address down in pictures in under a minute. The overall object was to work around the gameboard, which consisted of spaces in six different colors.