Pingimus
Pingimus (from latin: "we paint") is a party game played with at least 3 (better 5) up to 12 players. In 3 game phases everyone a) draws a picture for a given task b) looks at the pictures of the other players and guesses, what was their task c) vote among the guesses and try to match the original task. Scoring: Everyone, whose guess was voted in phase c) gets points, and the painter of a picture gets points, if the original task was chosen.
Number of players: 3 - 12
Game duration: 23 mn
Complexity: 0 / 5
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Rules summary
For tips on how to play pingimus, see Tips_pingimus
Game play
- Each round, every player is given a different thing to draw.
- Players have one minute to draw their pictures,
- Timers start at the moment they begin drawing.
- When all drawings have been drawn, they are dealt out in turn.
Guessing
- For each drawing, everyone except for the artist makes a private guess of what they think the drawing is of.
Voting
- When all guesses are in, the guesses are displayed to all the players, along with the original prompt that the artist was given.
- If multiple entries are very similar, players may vote to say that these should be treated as the same, single answer for scoring.
- For example: if one entry is "ice tray" and another is "icecube tray".
- Players vote on which they think was the original prompt.
Scoring
- Votes are revealed.
- Guessers score 1 point for everyone who chose their guess.
- The artist scores 1 point for everyone who chose their original prompt.
- Note: the default BGA scoring method does not give points for correct guesses.
- It is up to the table administrator to decide this before the game begins.
Game length
- Usually 3 to 5 rounds.
- Each round every player submits one drawing.
