Hasbro purchased the rights in 1994 after acquiring the games business of Western Publishing.

The game is played in teams with players trying to identify specific words from their teammates.

At that time they were in 60 countries and 45 languages, with 11 versions just in the US and a total of 32,000,000 games sold worldwide.

Each team moves a piece on a game board consisting of a sequence of squares.

To advance to a new square, a player must guess the word or phrase being drawn by their partner.

The pictures cannot contain any numbers or letters, nor can the drawers use spoken clues about the subjects they are drawing.

There are five types of squares on the board, and each Pictionary card has a list of five words printed on it.