I got my very own copy of Pictionary for Christmas this year, which is huge because I’ve been wanting that game for like 20 years. I’m not sure why I never just went out and bought it. But now it’s on!

As an artist and graphic designer, I love Pictionary. To a ridiculous degree. For me, it’s like mini logo design exercises – with each given word comes a challenge. What’s the easiest way to break down a word to get someone to understand it the second they see it? The trick sometimes is to take a couple of seconds before drawing to think of multiple meanings of the word, and pick the most universal and easy to draw option to win the round. For example, “ribs” came up in one round. My brother in law Chris embarked on drawing a delicious dish of baby back ribs since Josh had cooked up some tasty ones the night before and it was fresh in his mind. I opted to draw a SUPER simple skeleton’s ribcage, and my teammate Cari got the answer almost immediately. Way more simple drawing + way more universally recognized object = winner winner rib dinner!

We played a couple of rounds of Pictionary over the holidays, and I thought it’d be fun to give y’all a little guessing game using some of our drawings. Look at each of the quick sketches below – can you guess what each word was?

To see if you’re right, roll over each image and its title will pop up. Comment at the end, share with us how you did!

Hint: The above character was made famous by a man who has 2 pen names. One is super well known, the other lesser known one is Theo LeSieg. I learned recently this second name was used whenever the author wrote a book that was to be illustrated by someone else. Kinda interesting!

The above is a fairly easy one – someone at our table was a Mac, not a PC!

Check out that bottom right page in the above image. My favorite wrong answer of the night was “Stop down bread!”

The best part of this is that the more simple version of this word won – all it took was that arcing line added to the top of the simple sketch for me to get it!

Same thing with this one – Cari was able to guess my more simple drawing before I even got to sketching the actual word. I was still workin’ on establishing shot type elements when she shouted out the answer!

Okay, the above image wasn’t necessarily written on one of the game cards. But it’s still a pretty accurate depiction of what Josh was doing right at that moment.