telephone pictionary

Back in art school, we played and made up a bunch of games involving drawing, but this one really takes the cake. I was introduced to it last weekend when I had several friends at my house. Sitting around my dining room table, Lisa taught us to play a game called telephone pictionary. Your sense of humor counts for at least as much as your draftsmanship skills.

I would recommend playing with no less than four people, with 5-8 being optimal.

Game play is simple:

1. Gather up a bunch of small pieces of paper (we ended up playing with pieces that were approximately 4" x 2.5" -- but use whatever you will feel comfortable with). For each round, every player will get a stack of papers equal to the number of players in the game. In this case, we had eight players, so we needed 64 sheets per round.

2. Distribute the papers to each player. Number the pages (in this case, 1-8).

3. For the first turn, each player writes a phrase on sheet 1. It can be anything, and any number of words. It doesn't have to be a person, place, thing, or quote - make up whatever you want.

4. Each player passes their stack of papers to their left, with 1 on top.

5. When you receive your stack, look at the phrase on sheet 1, put it in the back of the stack, and draw the phrase on sheet 2. No words, of course!

6. Pass the stack to your left.

7. When you receive the stack, look at the drawing on sheet 2, put it to the back, and write on sheet 3 a phrase which best describes the drawing from sheet 2. Most important rule here - no peeking at sheet 1!

8. Pass the stack to your left. Look at sheet 3, put it to the back, draw on sheet 4 your best representation of the phrase from sheet 3.

Game play continues this way (alternating between drawing and writing, only looking at the top sheet) until all of the papers have been used and the stack is returned to the person who wrote the first phrase on page 1. Everyone reviews the results.

...Enjoy!!!