Product Description

Pictionary Man combines Pictionary with Charades to take this classic game to a whole new level of hilarity and fun. Get your electronic clues from Pictionary Man himself, and use fun interactive accessories to help your teammates along. Just look at the bottom of Pictionary Man's foot to get your private clue. Then it's up to you to draw them, act them out and get your teammates to guess the right word. For 2 or more teams. Requires 3 "AAA" batteries, not included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #556 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Mattel
• Model: M1009
• Released on: 2008-06-01
• Dimensions: 15.90" h x 10.70" w x 3.80" l, 2.05 pounds

Features

• Pictionary Man combines Pictionary with charades
• Get your clues by looking at the bottom of Pictionary man's foot
• It is up to you to draw them, act them out and get your teammates to guess the word right word
• Combines drawing, electronic clues, and interactive accessories
• Classic games combined

From the Manufacturer
Are you looking for big laughs at your next game night? Then, you better call the Man – Pictionary Man! It’s like Pictionary and Charades fused into the world’s wildest game ever! Peek at the display on the bottom of the little guy’s foot to get your word or phrase. Then, sketch directly on the Man and his props, and use them to act out the answer before the buzzer goes off! How would you draw these: Kick the bucket, bikini waxer, umpire or heartburn? Draw your own conclusions. Literally. If you happen to fall behind, don’t worry! You can catch up in the Challenge Round. It’s fast and frenetic, cause you never know what he’ll have you drawing next!

Customer Reviews

Great Game
This game is so much fun! You draw on the little man and his two props, to make the other team guess what he is.

1) Of COURSE it takes batteries. It is electronic.
2) I love the electronic aspect of it. It makes it so much easier, no cards, easy to keep track of. Much simpler!
3)The scoring is EASY. Just a wipe off board that you write your point (or no point) for that round on.
4) 30 seconds is more than enough time to act out the word or phrase. We even felt like this was a lot of time for some words. The word comes up on the bottom of his foot, so you are able to hide the word from your teammates even if they are right next to you.

We never have encountered any words yet that a 12-14 year old wouldn't understand. The more difficult category is TV, where the man will be a TV character. You may not know some of the TV shows, but hey, that's pictionary.

The only criticism that I would have is that some players will just try to draw a picture on the block, and play it like regular pictionary. (not even use the man). So for the first few rounds we didn't use the block. It is fun because you can not only draw on him, but he an act things out with the props. I kind of wish he was bendable.

All in all, this game was so much fun!!! I just brought it to a party of 8 people, and we had a blast!!!!! There really isn't anything to NOT like about it! Wow!!!

AMAZING fun for all ages
I got this product on the day before Thanksgiving and the next day my parents, my wife's parents and other family members came over to the house. We had folks varying in age from one another by over fifty years. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE had an absolute blast with this game.

The rules are easy to learn and it is easy to master the interface (one power switch and two buttons) on the digital menu that assigns the subjects that folks have to digitally represent.

The set includes:

1) The Pictionary "Man" which is a blank human shaped figure made of, what seems to be, a dry erase board type material. On the bottom of the foot of the "Man" one finds an on/off switch, an LED display and two buttons (labeled 1 and 2, respectively). After one turns the switch on, one presses the #1 button to get one's general subject (Person, Title, Misc., Role Play, Action, etc.). One announces the general subject to one's team. One then presses the #1 button again to get the specific topic (if it is a person it might be anyone from Ghandi to Moe from the Three Stooges). One DOES NOT tell anyone else what the specific subject is. One must use items 1-4 to convey, visually, what this specific subject is. If one's teammates guess the subject successfully, then the team gets a point. The first team to 15 wins. The #2 button is used only in the "Challenge" round, which is played after seven questions. One can learn more about the "Challenge" round by purchasing the game.

2) A rectagular object made of the same material that opens up and stores various other game pieces.

3) A cylindrical object made of the same material that does not open up to store items.

4) Two blue markers (one for each team) that are used to draw on items 1-3 in order to create visual clues that will allow one to guess the subject offered by the Pictionary "Man".

5) A cloth that erases the blue marks but, miraculously, does not turn blue as it erases!

6) A score card that has "Team 1" and "Team 2" printed on it. Next to each team name, there is a series of 15 boxes, which one checks off, respectively, as each team earns points. The score card is marked with the provided markers and cleans as easily as items 1-3. You never create more than two teams. With more people, you just increase the size of the teams.

7) The rules of the game are also provided.

BATTERIES ARE NOT INCLUDED. You have to provide three AAA batteries on your own, but that is a small sacrifice to make for the joy of playing such a wonderful game.

For the first few questions, we had a hard time. We were getting subjects like "Ribeye Steak" or "Groin". As the game went on, though, we started doing things more creatively. For instance, we once got the action subject "slide". We didn't even draw. All we did was take the rectangle, put it at an incline and slid the Pictionary "Man" down it. It took only a few guesses before somebody got slide. The other team then got the action "mount". They drew a picture of a horse on the rectangle and then moved the Pictionary "Man" in such a way that he appeared to be mounting the horse.

At the end of the evening, and this is the most important part, I told everyone that I would be reviewing this game and I needed their input. I asked them, "How many stars, out of five, does this game deserve?" Men, women, senior citizens, middle aged folks, newlyweds and youngsters all agreed, FIVE STARS.

The game made for a great introduction to a fabulous family get together. Everyone enjoyed it and it really loosened people up. Folks who used to just come to eat and who barely spoke were really getting involved. We all had lots of fun and it really inspired us to be creative. Even though the first few words felt impossible to us, we quickly found new ways to convey messages visually and had a blast doing it.

So, five stars for fun, five stars for durability, five stars for being a great social activity for every demographic and four stars for educational value. It might not be a day at school, but it does inspire one to think in new ways, and that's good enough for something that's just so darn fun.

So Disappointed!
I saw this at Wal Mart and grabbed it first thing, it looked like so much fun (especially with my group who love the artsy side of Cranium and Pictionary)... I was so disappointed!

How the game is played:

You have to have batteries AAA (I found this to be annoying as most games take AA, but not annoying enough to not purchase). The ages recommended is 14+ (needs to be) and can accommodate from 4 players-large groups.

The Pictionary man is a white erase doll essentially and comes with a white erase circle and rectangle. If you look on the box you see people drawing a cute surfer character with a sun and a surfboard or a man with an apron on (kiss the cook), barbecue grill, and spatula.

I'll go ahead and tell you that this will not happen in your game. You get (I think) 30 seconds to draw whatever character that comes up on the electronic foot of the Pictionary man. You want to get your team to say the word (like regular Pictionary). If it says surfer... you won't go through the trouble to make a cute little sun and drawstring trunks... You will as quickly as possible scribble a surfboard on the rectangular thing, not draw anything on the Pictionary man and act it out.

This gets very boring very fast and is also very limited.

Another thing that was annoying was the electronic aspect. Usually I like the electronic parts in games because they make it simpler. Not in this game! We were a little confused on the scoring. The electronic screen appeared like an old nano/gig-pet (small, black and grey, very digitalized)... The options were difficult to maneuver through and the challenge rounds were confusing.

Some of the words or people listed will actually be unknown by your 14-18 (or even more) age group.

I think this game has a lot of potential, but within 15 minutes we had put it back in the box and I was looking for the receipt. My suggestion: stick with regular Pictionary.