Picasso
Picasso Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
- Rulebook (instructions)
- Cards
- 5 long sticks
- 5 short sticks
- String
- Geometric shapes
- Game board in the form of a painting with a frame
Setup
Shuffle the cards face down. Decide how many rounds you want to play and multiply that number by the number of players – this is how many cards you select.
If this is your first game, start with 3 cards per player.
Place the game board in the middle of the table – the painter's canvas with a frame, on which you will create pictures using the set of sticks, shapes and string. Place the sticks, shapes and string next to the board for now.
Goal of the Game
Depict the pictures and words on the cards using sticks, shapes and string so that your fellow players can work out what is on the original card. The fewer items you need to depict the word, the more points you earn for the word, so the greater your chance of winning.
Play
The oldest player starts, and play continues clockwise.
The player whose turn it is chooses a card, looks at it, and does not show it to the other players. They then try to depict the picture from the card on the game board using sticks, geometric shapes and string, laying the items on the board to form a picture. The other players try to guess what is on the card. During the depiction the builder does not speak or gesture; the builder may only indicate, using a gesture agreed before the game, that the guessing is heading in the right direction.
If a player guesses the word the builder is depicting, that player receives a card worth 5 points, which they keep. The builder receives points according to the number of items used for depicting. Each card has an imaginary value of 10 before the word is guessed. From this value, the points for the items used for depicting are then subtracted: a short or long stick – 1 point, a geometric shape – 2 points, string – 3 points. (Write the points down, or use matches, marbles, beans … – whatever you have at home for counting points.)
Example: You are trying to depict a cat. The word is guessed after you have used 1 shape (2 points) and 4 sticks (1 point each) – that is 6 in total. For the guessed word, 10 – 6 = 4 points.
The player who guessed the correct word wins the card, and the builder wins 4 points.
If the builder has used building elements whose total value exceeds 10, the card is lost, and nobody receives either points or the card.
End of the Game
The game ends when the cards set aside for the game have run out.
Add up the points each player has scored overall and add the values of the cards they hold (5 points per card). The player who has won the most points wins.