Pictionary falls in the category guessing word games as board games under indoor party games. First time the game was published in 1985, which immediately after became so hit that it was made into more than one game shows on TV as well as video games to play on computer.

There are two teams in the game and the players in a team are supposed to guess and recognize particular words from what their teammates have expressed in their drawings.

A team moves a piece on the board on which squares are made with letters or shapes inside them telling what picture is to be drawn by one of the team members who picks up a card from a deck that has a word printed on it which the team member tries to express as best as possible in the form of a drawing without a single letter or digit written on it. The rest of the team members try to guess the word that the drawing is supposed to be made for.

The board has five types of squares made on it denoting P (for Person - animate nouns), O (for Object - inanimate nouns), A (for Action - verbs), D (for Difficult - challenging words) and AP (for All Play - any type of word); and each card out of the deck has five words printed on it. Players are bound to select the word out of those five, which the marker on a particular square (P, O, A, D or AP) on the board dictates the player to correspond to.

The accuracy of guessing as well as the speed of it makes a team win the turn and move on to the next one. There is an absolute time limit imposed on the moves including both drawing and guessing by a team, enforced by a one-minute sand timer. The team moves on to the next turn by rolling a die and moving as many squares on the board. If the team has lost the turn, the other team takes over.

In AP (All Play) category, both the teams play simultaneously and the one that does it earlier comes out to be the winner of the turn.

The team that reaches the last space of the board first, wins this beautiful game named Pictionary falling in the category guessing word games as board games under indoor party games.

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