Every once in a while Sean and I play 2-person pictionary. What does this mean? It means we each take a card and draw everything on it to the very best of our ability. Then we swap papers and the other has to guess what each drawing is. A bit slower than regular pictionary but still fun. Playing pictionary with Sean is fun and interesting. interesting because he is a draw-er, see. he does it well. If i may criticize, however, this poses a couple problems or, let us say, obstacles:
1) He takes his time. As he would, normally. While 2-man pictionary is different, this is not conducive to a game that's a race.
2) He draws things that are too real. I'm not sure if i know what this means, and I don't know if i am just used to the "pictionary shorthand" i became accustomed to growing up, but he'll draw something and it will be completely unidentifiable to me because it looks too good.
3) He has a thing about size and proportion. He'll take an entire sheet of paper to draw a thimble and i'll say, "what the hey is THAT?" But i can't really think of any other examples, so maybe it was just a fluke thimble. And it's not like i expect people to draw a house to scale (unless it's a mouse house). So i don't know. This may be unwarranted.
All of that said, it is fun to play with Sean and we are usually a pretty compatible pictionary team. Usually.
Not so much the other night.
First, my drawings:
We allow ourselves to draw lines depicting the number of words. All you have to do is fill in the blank(s). Sean got all of mine except for one--pile. But that was understandable.
Here are Sean's drawings. Now: Was it just me?? What happened here? I guess i did ok-- I got 3 out of 5. But the others? I think it was just me. For some reason i was NOT getting his drawings.
Anyway, kind of funny, sort of. (Good knight, Sean.)
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I've often thought that the better artist you are, the harder Pictionary becomes. But if you take away the time factor, that could be really cool! I love Sean's knight...
The knight IS super cool, but he looks kind of hairy under his armor. :D And, are you going to tell us the right answers to Sean's?
Oh yeah.
The first one is daylight. I so had no clue.
The 3rd one with the amoeba man is body surf. What?? Yeah right. He was like, "see those people happily body surfing in the ocean??" I said, "What that? You mean the poor people being scrambled to death?"
In his defense, it would be hard to draw just a vague "body," but i think in this one, the context would have been better, aka the scrambled men.
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Those are some pretty awesome drawings, very impressive! They're both way better than my stick guys...
This was such a funny read, totally get it :D . The pressure of the timer makes the game, so when i play 2-person with my son, it's 1 minute to draw 1 clue.
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