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Pictomania

Elf or fairy?

You do know what a crab looks like? Can you draw it? No? That doesn’t matter in Pictomania,, because it is sufficient to draw it in a way that the other players can distinguish your crab from a turtle! Very good, that fits my drawing abilities.

First you receive a secret letter and number. Then three topic cards from the chosen level of difficulty are placed into the holder. Now all have a brief look at those cards so that you know what might be in the drawings. Then you look at the number and letter you were dealt, they determine what you must draw; the letter A-C marks the card, the number 1-7 the term on this card.

Now all draw simultaneously and try at the same time to guess what the others are drawing; if you guess you place one of your guess cards with the number of the term on the player’s stack, which has the number and letter cards at the bottom and other player’s guess cards on top. If you are done with guessing you take the best remaining bonus tile.

When the last one is taken, the guess stack of each player in turn is turned over and scored from top to bottom; you give scoring tiles to those players who guessed correctly at your drawing. Then all score points for all scoring tiles they did receive and bonus tiles, negative points are scored for your own scoring tiles you could not give away. After four such rounds you win with the highest score.

So far so good, actually very good and lots of fun! But distinguishing crab from turtle is only sufficient for the easiest level, later on you come against sacrum vs tailbone and it turns out, it was a dorsal vertebra after all.

Players: 3-6

Age: 8+

Time: 45+

Designer: Vlaada Chvátil

Artist: Toby Allen, Michaela Zaoravolá, Filip Murmak

Price: ca. 20 Euros

Publisher: Czech Games Edition 2018

Web: www.czechgames.com

Genre: Drawing and guessing game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: cz de en it nl pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Revised new edition, 1^st edition 2011

Dilemma of looking and guessing or drawing

Good selection of terms in several degrees of difficulty

Very sophisticated scoring mechanism

Compares to:

Pictionary, Activity and other drawing games

Other editions:

Cranio Creations (it), Rebel (pl), White Goblin Games (nl), GaGa Games (ru, announced)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 0*

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 0

Dexterity (green): 2

Action (dark green): 2