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proof that your friends can't draw and you can't read minds.
means A party game in which players draw pictures to get their teammates to guess a word or phrase, without speaking or writing letters.
from A blend of "picture" and the "-ionary" of "dictionary" — the word for a wordless game cheekily borrowing the shape of the most word-heavy book there is. It began as a brand name, a commercial game launched in the mid-1980s, and the trademark has since softened into a casual lowercase verb for any draw-and-guess round.
- origin
- Invented by a waiter sketching words for fun in 1985
- name math
- Picture plus dictionary, smashed together
- forbidden moves
- No letters, numbers, or talking allowed
- sales
- Over 38 million copies sold worldwide
- timer tyranny
- One minute turns artists into panicked scribblers
for instance
pictionary world championships — annual tournament held since 1990 with teams competing in drawing and guessing games
pictionary air — mobile app game launched by mattel in 2020 using smartphone cameras for drawing