Comments on: Pictionary

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:17:49 +0000

In reply to bakhatyar. Aw thank you! What a nice comment! I really appreciate your kind words. :)

By: bakhatyar

bakhatyar — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 18:08:30 +0000

Hey there! Just wanted to drop by and say how much I enjoyed your article on Pictionary over at The Game Gal. It brought back so many fond memories of playing this classic game with friends and family. Your breakdown of the rules and strategies was super helpful, especially for someone like me who tends to get a bit competitive during game nights (oops!). I never realized there were so many variations to spice things up! Your tips on teamwork and communication really hit home – sometimes it's not just about drawing well, but also about how you convey your ideas to your teammates. Thanks for shedding light on that! Can't wait to try out some of these new twists next time we bust out the Pictionary board. Keep up the awesome work! Pictionary Word Generator

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20 Exciting Outdoor Math Games for Kids - OhMyClassroom.com — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:40:50 +0000

[…] Combine art and math in an outdoor game of “Math Pictionary.” Divide participants into pairs or small groups. Each group is given a math concept, such as multiplication, fractions, or geometry. Using chalk or markers, they take turns drawing representations of that concept on the ground or a large piece of paper. The other groups then try to guess the math concept being illustrated. This game encourages creativity, mathematical visualization, and collaborative learning in an outdoor setting.Source: thegamegal.com […]

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[…] beloved party game that’s guaranteed to be a hoot is Pictionary. If you don’t want to buy the game, you can spend some time creating your own cards with words […]

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50 Fun, Free Ways to Have a Great Time With Friends – gigonway — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:01:23 +0000

[…] the inability to draw is part of the fun. And you don’t even need the official board — all you need is a word list and a few […]

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By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:27:31 +0000

In reply to Jan. Oh, I'm so sorry, but I don't! Maybe one day, though!

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:04:05 +0000

Do you have this available in Spanish?

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Ftcyfgv — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 19:27:40 +0000

By: Abhishek Borar

Abhishek Borar — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:19:11 +0000

Hi Game Gal!

It would great if you could provide your views on DrawGuess (https://drawguess.fun). It essentially an online Telephone Pictionary game with voice chat as well.

Thanks in advance 🙂

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Printable Word Games | Adventure in a Box — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 22:33:53 +0000

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[…] for a game that only requires paper and a pencil. If you’d like to print out words to choose from The Game Gal has a lot of family friendly printables. On a related note, if your family likes drawing games, I […]

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Game Night: A night of Fun on a Budget - Green Saves You Green — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:18:18 +0000

[…] down some simple phrases from whatever categories you want and have fun! You can head on over to The Game Gal if you want some printable lists to get you […]

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How Do You Communicate With Your Children? - Moments With Mandi — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:48:22 +0000

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By: Pictionary - ESL Board Games for Kids & Adults - ESL Expat

Pictionary - ESL Board Games for Kids & Adults - ESL Expat — Wed, 09 May 2018 10:42:55 +0000

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By: jawni

jawni — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:03:07 +0000

In reply to Gina. you are so smart game gal

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[…] Pictionary, with a twist. We purchased a whiteboard and markers and used free Pictionary words from TheGameGal translated into Hindi. Many of the children were at first confused as to how they would draw […]

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:38:45 +0000

In reply to Camela. Thanks, Camela! I hope you have a great Christmas!

By: Camela

Camela — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:04:46 +0000

Thank you so much for the printable Pictionary words! My husband and I are hosting Christmas Eve this year for my side of the family and we always do games. This will be the first time trying Pictionary out so we’ll see how it goes! Thanks again!

By: Maisie

Maisie — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:56:08 +0000

In reply to Gina. Oh you are so thankful to me

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12 Simple Games To Make Eating Out With Kids More Fun | Ellaslist — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 11:42:46 +0000

[…] 8. Pictionary – It’s a drawing word-guessing game for groups of any age and you don’t need the board for it to be fun. Just a pencil and paper. You could be in teams or one player draws and everyone else guesses. Some examples of easy words would be: cat, sun, flower, spider, eyes, apple, star, face, circle for more ideas go to this link https://www.thegamegal.com/2010/11/06/pictionary/ […]

By: Ashutosh Kumar

Ashutosh Kumar — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 07:03:55 +0000

Love to love it…

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By: Poorva Pranay Thakkar

Poorva Pranay Thakkar — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:57:34 +0000

LOVED THIS SITE! Everybody at my work place enjoyed playing Pictionary as a Fun Friday Activity. Thanks to you for all the lovely words/idioms/characters you have put together.

By: Adry ViGa

Adry ViGa — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 22:24:46 +0000

Thanks so much, great acitivites… I saved time with your lists!!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 20 May 2015 21:30:50 +0000

I LOVE THIS! My family enjoys a game night occasionally with neighbors and this is going to be SO MUCH FUN! Thank you for taking the time to put this together. <3

By: mamsis

mamsis — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:24:54 +0000

In reply to The Game Gal. seriously :O

By: Rafiqua Israel

Rafiqua Israel — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:10:51 +0000

This is so useful thank you! My ESL class will love them.

By: Aurora

Aurora — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:50:07 +0000

thank you game gal!!! I am having a birthday family game night this weekend and now I am more excited about this game! wish us luck, we are very competitive! 🙂

By: 50 Fun, Free Ways to Have a Great Time With Friends

50 Fun, Free Ways to Have a Great Time With Friends — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:52:24 +0000

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By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:07:09 +0000

In reply to Amy. Amy, I actually do have a fall list! Here it is. I was going to wait until I drew a picture and put a new post up, but since you asked I'll go ahead and put it on the printables page. You can now find it under the Holidays heading.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:34:29 +0000

Do you have a fall list by chance. I will be leading a classroom of 6th graders and I was going to do Boys vs. Girls on the white board. The school does not allow Halloween themes but fall themes would work great.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 02:49:51 +0000

Thanks! Tomorrow I celebrate student’s day with the pictionary cards published!!!

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:36:14 +0000

Thank you for your well-written site,
especially the print-cut-and-play word lists 🙂

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:53:07 +0000

Thank you! I love that you have the word lists organized so that it is easy to print, cut up to put in the bowl, and then just play! Here’s a twist too: try playing “Pictionades”: pick a word out of the bowl, then flip a coin. Heads = silently draw the word to be guessed; Tails = silently act out the word to be guessed.
Much Love!!!

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:11:48 +0000

Thanks, Maria! 🙂

By: Maria Estella

Maria Estella — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:26:10 +0000

WOW – THIS SITE ROCKS!! I’m excited to play this evening with my family – My kids will get the list of “Easy words” (ages 9, 8 & 6) and my husband will get the “Medium Words”. Kids against parents tonight ;o) CAN’T WAIT!!

By: msjune

msjune — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:49:31 +0000

Thanks a lot..very useful 🙂

By: josh

josh — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:20:57 +0000

thanks so much for posting these! especially the idioms!

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:24:01 +0000

In reply to JennHillier. Jenn, glad to help! Hope it all goes well!

By: JennHillier

JennHillier — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:56:26 +0000

Thanks. I’ll be using some of these in my Special Education class today. 🙂

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:20:08 +0000

In reply to betsy. Betsy, haha, glad to help! Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving!

By: betsy

betsy — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:32:14 +0000

Thanks for saving me from another fight over politics at my in-laws this holiday….

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:51:36 +0000

Carrie and Sunaiyana, glad to help! Thanks for the comments!

By: Sunaiyana

Sunaiyana — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:39:23 +0000

Hey…thx thx thx so much!!! Perfect words list for my kid’s bday!!

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:55:34 +0000

I think so. Thanks for your help

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:41:53 +0000

Carrie,
Ooh, that one’s trickier. 😉 Well, when you assign points to a team for drawing and guessing a word correctly, you could also sign an individual point to the artist. Keep track of both team and individual points throughout the whole game, and then at the end you could have an individual winner: either the person on the winning team with the most points, or just the person from any team with the most points overall. If there’s a tie, you could have one more quick round of pictionary as a tiebreaker. Would that work?

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:49:49 +0000

Thanks for the help, We are really trying to decide how to have an individual winner?

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:03:17 +0000

In reply to Carrie. Carrie, That sounds like a great party! If you're playing at Christmas, check out my Christmas pictionary word list. And then as far as how to play with your group, you could always have 4 or 5 small white boards or paper pads on easels, one for each team, and just have each team send up one person to draw at a time. Give all the artists the same word to draw. Then have the 4 or 5 people drawing, with their team members guessing, and whichever team guesses the word first gets the point. Then a new set of artists comes up. I've never played with that many teams at one time, but if you have that many easels, it could definitely work! If you're not set on having 4 or 5 teams, I would say a great way to play with 20 people would be to just have 2 teams of 10. Then play the same way, but you don't need as many drawing surfaces. Either way, good luck and let me know if I can help any more! -The Game Gal

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:47:02 +0000

This game sounds so fun and we plan on playing it at our corporate christmas party (we do games every year) We have a group of 20, How would you suggest we play the game with 5 teams of 4 (or 4 teams of 5) in a way that keeps everyone involved at the same time?

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:45:57 +0000

Simon, wow, it sounds like you do have some particular needs to meet! What you do sounds so interesting. I hope that the lists helped. Good luck with your volunteer work!

By: simon rees

simon rees — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:41:44 +0000

super site, thank you, i work as a volunteer with a stroke group and we are always looking for new things, have had to merge pictionary and cherades as each person has different difficulties and we have to meet all. great though, thanks again, sim.

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:25:23 +0000

Rita, thanks! If you use my “Search for the perfect game” feature at the top of the page and check “Grown-ups” for the age, it will bring up all the posts I have that adults could play. They’re all suitable for teens or children as well, though; I don’t have any games that are exclusively adult. Hope this helps!

By: Rita

Rita — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:26:30 +0000

Wow thank you so much Gal for the variety of words. ive been playing this since 1999 and i have never got bored.

God bless you. Can you add some nice adult activity park games, should be a decent ones.

Thanks again,
Rita

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:45:29 +0000

In reply to Steve-O. Steve-O, sounds like a hit! I'm glad it was fun. Thanks for the kind comment.

By: Steve-O

Steve-O — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:36:09 +0000

What a hit! I bought an economy white-board and stand from Staples. Then with your word lists we had a great night of PICTIONARY FUN!

Thank you soo much Game Gal! YOU ROCK!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:20:32 +0000

I printed out the easy, medium, and hard words, cut them out, and tossed them into an empty square tissue box to play with my language exchange partner. She learned so many new things! You made not owning actual Pictionary not so bad. 🙂 Thanks!

By: Mr. J

Mr. J — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:39:33 +0000

Thanks for the great pictionary word/phrase ideas! We loved ’em in my AP Stats class after the AP test was over. 🙂

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:00:13 +0000

Nana, the chalkboard sounds like a great idea! That’s so fun! Hope you enjoy!

By: Nana

Nana — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:14:08 +0000

We put a 4×8 outdoor chalkboard on our fence. The little ones love it. These words will allow us to play Pictionary. Love it.

By: Mista

Mista — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:48:58 +0000

Thank you so much for compiling these lists! With the recent popularity of Draw Something, my students love to play our own version whenever we have down time. Your lists add impartiality when it comes to which words I give the teams. I, and my students, thank you!

By: Cameron

Cameron — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:52:27 +0000

Thanks! These lists are awesome!! You’ve just made my party-planning SO much easier. 😀

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:37:13 +0000

Danielle, that’s awesome! I love Family Home Evening! A lot of the memories I have of playing the games on my site are from my family’s FHEs growing up. Hope I can help!

By: Danielle Harris

Danielle Harris — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:38:58 +0000

Thank you so much for this. My children and I are enjoying our “Family Home Evening” thanks to you and your awesome site!

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:52:11 +0000

This was the first site we found that had legit words to use. It was really helpful! The idioms were my favourite, and I know they will be tons of fun for our youth tonight! Thank you.

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:34:17 +0000

Hi, thanks for the lists – We used them in a little school in a place called Wycheproof in Victoria, Australia – town population 700, school population Year 1-13 is 130. Our students found some of the movies to be almost impossible – but that just added to the fun! We had a great – but very raucous, session.
Cheers

By: Kari

Kari — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:06:20 +0000

Thanks a ton! I just used the idioms with my middle school advisory. It was a blast!

By: Turkey Man

Turkey Man — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:12:48 +0000

Thanks for posting. You just saved Thanksgiving. All the best to you and yours.

Best,

Turkey Man

By: Jen's mom

Jen's mom — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:40:54 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this word list for Pictionary. I waited until the last minute to plan a party for tonight and this was a LIFESAVER!!!!

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:33:54 +0000

All, I’m so glad to help! Thanks for your comments. It makes me feel glad knowing that this can help some people out. 🙂 Have fun and enjoy all your festivities!

By: Carol Lynn

Carol Lynn — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:14:57 +0000

Thanksgiving will never be the same at my house! Thanks to you for helping out in this economy! Awesome job, five gold stars for you Game Gal!

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:01:04 +0000

I can pretty much copy and paste what Ebioni replied. Lifesaver. Thank you.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:19:50 +0000

Thanks for posting this. This is great for my students after exams.

By: Ebioni

Ebioni — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:11:05 +0000

Im cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the first time and I have a LARGE extended family and needed an inexpensive way to entertain … Thank you so much for this site !

By: Nan Carney

Nan Carney — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:53:37 +0000

Thanks! Am using in a community college child development class. It will be a great way to combine the chapters on intelligence, creativity, & socialization (as well as fun too!).

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:24:46 +0000

Thank you so, so much for the list of words.
This will be such a great help with our church get to gether on Saturday, thank you, very kind of you

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:59:54 +0000

What a great help you are!! Thanks so much! Big group of 13 year olds coming over! You are a life saver!

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By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:11:30 +0000

Thanks! This will be great for my 4th graders!

By: gloria

gloria — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:04:50 +0000

Thanks for your work on this website you were a life saver!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:39:50 +0000

Super fun! Just played easy and medium words with my 7-year-old son. Great way to get him reading and drawing.

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:36:16 +0000

LOTS OF THANKS 🙂 Doing a last minute party and your site really is very helpfull. Thanks for taking the time to put it together, and not asking for anything in return. Its a blessing, may God Bless You

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:25:17 +0000

I’m having a birthday party tonight with 10 people and was looking for this exactly!! Thanks!!!

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:31:30 +0000

All, thanks so much for the comments! If you have any suggestions, let me know!
– The Game Gal

By: micheal

micheal — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:04:54 +0000

i appreciate this..im playing with my residents at the nursing home and was clueless!!!

By: Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:35:17 +0000

love love love your site 🙂

By: shreeja

shreeja — Wed, 25 May 2011 01:12:57 +0000

i luv u game gal for posting this game
really it has helped me entertain my friends
i m lavishly excited to meet u and give u a tight hug..!!!!
🙂 <3<3<3<3<3 lots of love
shreeja pandey

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:41:37 +0000

Natasha,
Glad you liked it! And hope your husband has fun!

By: Natasha

Natasha — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:14:46 +0000

Thank you so much! So many “pictionary” sites seem like pure spam filled sites, yours actually has good party games. I will use this for my husband’s party next weekend- so much fun- thanks so much!!!

By: The Game Gal

The Game Gal — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:01:12 +0000

Gina,
Glad to help! Hope you and your friends/family/guests/whoever have fun!

By: Gina

Gina — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:46:34 +0000

Thank you so so so much for posting this!! It’s going to be perfect for tonight…and it was so helpful for me. I really really appreciate it!! Thanks,
Gina