What you need:
Paper
Pens or pencils
Complete disregard for your drawing skills
Directions:
1.) You just need a few players. We've played with three or four or more. Everyone gets a stack of blank papers equal to the number of people in the game. Five of us played, so we each started with five pieces of paper in front of us. (We cut printer paper into fourths, or we just use scrap paper.)
2.) On the first sheet, each person draws a picture of something. It can be anything -- an illustration of a common saying, a movie title, or just whatever occurs to you. Don't look at each other's drawings.
3.) Everyone passes their stack to the person on their right. When you get the stack, interpret the drawing you're looking at, move it to the back of the stack, and on the next piece of paper, write down your interpretation. Pass the stack again.
4. Read the previous person's interpretation, move that paper to the back, then draw your version of what was said.
5. Continue the steps until you've gone through all of the pieces of paper in the stack, and after the final passing, you should have your own drawing back, and it will be on top of the stack.
6. Now you can show everyone your original drawing, tell them what it was, and see how close everyone came to drawing/interpreting it.
7. Laugh until you gasp or pass out.
Here's an example from one of our rounds:
Ramona* drew this:
Anne-with-an-wrote this:
The Niffler has stolen money and jewels. Eddie Redmayne is very concerned.
Atticus then drew this:
I interpreted his drawing this way:
A man is shocked that a blind pig has SWAG.
In response, Betsy drew this:
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And that is how you play TelePictionary.
You're welcome.
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* She asks you to please not judge her on her New Year's Eve scribble methods for TelePictionary.
8 comments:
This looks like ALL the fun of both -- and I'm still amused that the pig has swag. I mean, pigs don't usually, but Nebraska pigs have it going on, obviously.
Tanita, I just realized that I had left out a word about the pig -- I had actually written "blind pig"... so, yeah, Nebraska pigs are amazing, I guess. :)
I have this vague sense that someone has made and marketed a commercial game that is very like this and that I played once, with little dry erase boards connected by a ring or something that get passed around.
When I heard "telepictionary" I wondered if the players were not located in the same room or house, maybe some kind of long-distance game.
I'm sure it's been marketed somehow and somewhere. :) We have a Pictionary-type game with little dry erase boards, too. Disney Something, I think.
A long distance version with people in different rooms (or states, or countries) would be fun, too. :)
I want to make a mental note to come back to this game in maybe five years when we'll have enough writing skills for everyone to play.
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! So fun to see all these blog posts. We play something like this too, only we fondly call it The Game. We use strips of paper, one per person, and just fold down the writing or picture part for each turn. Such a riot, especially if you're playing late at night with your grown-up kids when everyone gets a little punchy. Of course they can all draw better than I can. And write better sentences too. ;-)
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! So fun to see all these blog posts. We play something like this too, only we fondly call it The Game. We use strips of paper, one per person, and just fold down the writing or picture part for each turn. Such a riot, especially if you're playing late at night with your grown-up kids when everyone gets a little punchy. Of course they can all draw better than I can. And write better sentences too. ;-)
Melanie, you and your gang will love it!
Kimberlee, a huge yes to the playing of the game with grown-up kids/everyone punchy. So fun! :)
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