Appealing To The Science Geek In All Of Us
While playing Pictionary tonight with Chris, my mom and dad, babycarrot sister and her husband, Will, there was an All Play to draw “Trunk.”
The teams went in couples’ fashion, and so, as such:
I drew an elephant. My dad drew a tree. Will drew a car with an arrow pointing to its back-end.
(Babycarrot sister guessed, or rather, emphatically yelled in her traditional game-playing fashion: “TRUNK!” first, just a split! second before Chris did. Mom was still laughing, and guessing types of trees and/or tree bark.)
The best part of the entire game, though, was when all three of us were required to draw “Oxygen” for another All Play. My dad and I drew various oxygen tanks (his were far more recognizable than my own) and large whooshes! of air being swallowed by stick-figure mouths. But Will?
Will drew A PERIODIC TABLE.
That picture is now (tear-stained with babycarrot sister’s laughter and) hanging on my mom’s fridge.
In conclusion: The family that plays Pictionary together stays together. And leaves the evening with myriad stories with which to tease said family members for years and many rematch Pictionary games to come.
aww my ex’s family and I used to play P’nary all the time, oh man, it was so fun! His mom would always designate certain drawings “keepers” at the end of the night, saving them in the box. Haha, I wouldn’t even know where O was on the periodic chart anymore!
I have never, ever gotten over the time that we were supposed to draw “period.” Everyone else drew a dot and an arrow. I … well … I still can’t talk about it. True story.
ha! have you seen those new commercials for Pictionary? they’re totally almost scandalous.
i’m going to have to start playing this with my family more often.
We have a friend who yells “watermelon” at every picture. Funniest thing was when his teammate actually drew watermelon to draw…..
Now THAT’s creative!! That’s one game that doesn’t get old. :)
Aw…Will sounds just like my Matthew. Like, TOO alike.
ha, isn’t that funny how minds work? :)
You know my immediate impulse would be to draw the kind of trunk you’d find in at attic or at the bottom of the sea, spilling over with sunken treasure! Interesting to see how differently people’s brains work.
I like the concept of Pictionary, but I hate the reality of it. I can’t draw and I certainly can’t draw fast.
Have you ever played Fictionary? That’s where you pick a word from the dictionary and make up fake definitions for it. I *love* that game.
@Rozanne - the game Balderdash is pretty much just that - you draw a card and write down what you think the definition for it should be. The person who drew the card writes down the actual definition, and you put them all in a hat (or box or whatever) and vote on which ones you believe. If you get it right, you get points. I LOVE IT. I’ve only played it once and it was probably ten years ago (lord I feel old now) but it was great. Though, I think it works best if you can’t recognize the handwriting of the people you’re playing with.
I don’t know that I’ve played straight Pictionary before, but Cranium has a Pictionary-esque category occasionally and anytime we play, hilarity ensues. I once failed to guess “Atlantis” after the boyfriend drew an ambiguous “city” with a semicircle over it, but not so that it looked like a city underwater, just so that it looked… odd. And everyone got it but me. And I felt dumb, but honestly? DID NOT LOOK LIKE ATLANTIS.
Holy smokes! How do you draw a periodic table? Just filling in SO
ME of the elements would take forever!
I like Balderdash–not too big on Pictionary because I, like Rozanne, can’t draw, much less draw fast.