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Pictures is a quick-playing family game with very simple rules. Form the image on your secret picture card with one set of components, either shoelaces, color cubes, icon cards, sticks and stones or building blocks in such a way that the other players guess what image you have pictured:
Pull out a marker from the bag that determines your secret picture card.
Then form that image with your components in such a way that it is recognizable.
And finally guess what image each other player has pictured.
The players get points for correctly guessing other players images and for other players guessing their image. The most points wins!
—description from the publisher
Year Published
2019
Transcript Analysis
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The Dice Tower general_discussion at 0:26 sentiment: negative
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negative
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Quotes (from this video)
- Times Up, one of the greatest party games ever.
- Pictures is a game I don't understand.
- Just One's such a great game. It works in every situation.
- Detective Club where everyone's lying.
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no rollsbod playthrough at 0:47 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Creative use of mediums (shoelaces, blocks) offers expressive freedom
- Engaging, playful banter enhances fun
- Accessible and quick to play
Cons
- Interpretation can cause disagreements or jokes of a racy nature
- Overlap of coordinates may give duplicates across players
Thematic elements
- Art interpretation and social deduction
- A grid of pictures where players secretly recreate a target image using various mediums.
- Lighthearted, humorous
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Coordinate drawing from tokens — A token drawn from a bag determines a coordinate for the target picture.
- Medium-based construction — Players build their own version of the target picture using unusual materials (shoelaces, blocks, cards, sticks, stones).
- round-based progression — The game runs over five rounds with a leftward shift of coordinates after each round.
- Secret guessing and scoring — Players guess each other’s coordinates; points are awarded for correct guesses and liked pictures.
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Quotes (from this video)
- shoelaces gives you so much expression to do whatever you want to make it's so clear to the people exactly what you were trying to convey.
- this game should be called bad Workman because we've all got [ __ ] tools
- three big boy points
- the best medium the most artistic medium in this game is clearly shoelaces
- it's the monkey really yes it's the monkey
- the spoon is great
- I think this game is absolutely delightful
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