In the mid-to-late 1980s, “Pictionary“ was among the hottest board games among teen-agers and adults; frequently, stores sold out of the popular game based on pictorial charades. The board game spawned two attempts to bring the game to the small screen; the 1997 five-a-week syndicated game was the second of those attempts. Two teams of three members (each having a contestant and two celebrities) competed in a series of rounds based on guessing phrases, people, places, things, etc., based on pictorial charades. In the first round, the teams have 45 seconds to convey phrases sharing a common word (e.g., “wheat bread“ and “bread basket“), with $100 per correct guess. In the second round, the teams have three minutes to guess as many phrases, with each phrase connected by one word (e.g., “Bengal tigers, “ “Lions, tigers and bears, oh my!“ “Detriot Lions, “ etc). ; the team members rotated duties after each phrase, with correct answers worth $100.

Based on the Mattel's party game, two teams of three players will compete against each other, trying to guess the correct word or phrase represented by the drawings of their fellow teammates.

Game show hosted by Mel Giedroyc in which two celebrity captains lead contestants on a mission to draw images that match a word or phrase from a specific category, with their team-mates having to guess correctly to score.

日本語は、「あ」から始まり、「ん」まで、英語は、「A」から始まり「Z」まで、しりとりをパラレルに展開していく。 あり→りりく→く…、ANT→TAKE OFF→F…。言葉にあわせて絵が技法と共に変化してき、 アニメーションの技法の「百科図鑑」にもなっている。