For the November meeting, CAPS gathered for an evening of Pictionary, that game where someone from one team has to draw a picture that represents a selected word, without using letters or numbers. Getting artists to think of words apparently can be a challenge. But it made for a lot of fun.
Jim MacQuarrie MCs Pictionary
Jim MacQuarrie play Game Master duty, and explained the game. And then we launched into attempts at guessing what the designated drawer (we took turns on each team) was trying to convey. Some of the words from the game cards were not easy.
In this case, the word was “translator”, which took a bit to get to.
My first time at the easel, I got the word “cowgirl”. Oh gee thanks.
Terrible looking cow there. But on the other hand, not one I’ve had much call to draw.
Tone Rodriguez got “visitation”.
Kirby Shaw got stuck with the action word “untie”, and did a pretty good job with a two part rendering.
Pat’s first attempt at the board, was a challenge. Here he gets the word.
Then he started drawing.
The word he’d gotten was “kosher”.
Here’s part of the gang (the other team, actually) conferring.
Some of the words were fairly easy. One of my other words was “yardstick” – long narrow rectangle with marks on it, which I then proceeded to draw a foot above – the word was guessed before I even finished the second foot. Another word I got was “ugly”, which really stumped me – I couldn’t think of the characteristics that would quickly convey the word. It happened to be a word that both teams had to do, and when I glanced over at the other team afterward (they got to the word first), I realized that I just didn’t have a cartoonist’s quick, exaggerated thinking (my opponent had drawn a face with really bucked teeth, and a HUGE nose with a wart on it.
After the “official” game was over, we made Jim do one. And he had to think about it.
The battery on my camera (which I hadn’t gotten fully recharged) started to give out during the game, so I didn’t capture everything. But these pictures give you an idea of some of the fun we had.
We continued on after the “official” game, by having someone come up with a word and making one of the members draw it. Initially, we still went at it as teams, but that devolved into a full group challenge. “Coriander” was given to Pat, and he eventually broke the word into parts. The comic geeks among us were whispering we’d have just drawn the DC Comics character Starfire, as her personal name is “Koriander”. I admit, that when the gaming move to the whole-group challenge, I gave the latest vict– I mean, artist are really challenging word. “Memoir.” Poor fellow, he really did try very hard to get images there, including that it was a word from the French. It stumped the group — but it amused me very much. I sat there laughing away as the group were tossing out all sorts of words, and the artist was getting frustrated because he couldn’t think of anything better than what he had drawn (which was pretty sharp).
All in all it was a very fun evening.
