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Pictomania

Metropolis or city?

You do know what a zebra looks like? Can you draw it? No? Then you should play Pictomania, because in Pictomania it is sufficient to draw it in a way that the other players can distinguish your zebra from a car. At least, that’s what the box bottom says. Would go with my drawing abilities!

First you receive a secret number and symbol. Then 6 topic cards from the chosen level of difficulty are placed into the card holders. Now all have a brief look at those topic cards so that you know what might be in the drawings. Then you look at the number and symbol you were dealt, they determine what you must draw; the symbol marks the card, the number the term on this card. Now all draw simultaneously and try at the same time to guess what the others are drawing. If you want to guess you place one of your tip tiles on the tip stack of this player. The first one who stops drawing takes the best bonus tile that is left. If you take the last one the round ends.

The tip 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 five such rounds you win with the highest score.

So far so good, actually very good and lots of fun! But when I look at the cards you need not distinguish car from zebra, but emigration from escape! Or a saber from a rapier! And this while you are trying to draw shingle! Oops, it was a sword and not a knife!

Players: 3-6

Age: 9+

Time: 45+

Designer: Vlaada Chvátil

Artist: Andreas Resch

Price: ca. 30 Euros

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2011

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Drawing game

Users: For families

Version: de

Rules: cz de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Dilemma between looking and guessing or drawing

Good selection of terms in several degrees of difficulty

Very sophisticated, well-working scoring mechanism

Compares to:

Pictionary, Activity, Identik and other drawing games

Other editions:

English and Czech editions at Czech Games Edition

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