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Pictureka | 
| Brand: Parker Brothers
Category: Toy
List Price: $22.99
Buy Collectible: $9.69
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Seller: treasures07
Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 1373
Batteries Included: No
Age: 8 - 15 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 1.9 x 10.5 x 10.5
MPN: 40202
Model: 40202
UPC: 653569276197
EAN: 0653569276197
ASIN: B000S4BF4I
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Exciting games of visual hide and seek | | • | 100 different mission cards in 3 categories | | • | Includes 9 two-sided gameboard tiles, 108 cards, dice, timer and instructions | | • | For 2 or more people |
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Product Description
Find it fast, find it first! Pictureka is the exciting game of visual hide and seek. Players compete to collect the most mission cards to win the game. Great for the whole family, and kids as young as six can play with older kids and parents. No batteries required.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 59
 Fun game July 21, 2010
Brittany319
This is a great game that the whole family will enjoy, kids and adults alike. My sisters ages 11 and 15 love to play this game all the time.
 Not a balanced game for kids July 17, 2010
Jeremiah Johnson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Our eight year old loved this game, but the 6 year old was frustrated to the point of tears several times. The bidding is probably fun for some people, but when one just wants to bid astronomically high EVERY time it ruins it for everyone. There is no counter balance, and don't think this was strategy- she simply realized that she would get to play on EVERY red if she just kept outbidding everyone.
Well naturally we thought up the "lose a card" rule, but the bidding cards are all over the board (People? I found 18 people before the sand was half gone) so it is really difficult to gauge so we made the rule that you lose a card if you find less then half of your bid. It didn't change anything, because the younger was so afraid to lose a card that he still wouldn't bid.
We came up with other solutions to ensure fairer play, but everything we could think of punished the younger more than curtailing the older. Sure it would be nice if we could just say, "let your brother win a bid," but that doesn't work, and frankly we shouldn't have to modify the game because PB didn't bother to balance it. We haven't tested any of the other ideas, many of which involve additional materials (pen and paper for secret bidding, more dice for random "bidding") and again, I don't think I should have to redesign the game.
Maybe that's fun for other people, or their kids aren't as dramatic about the bidding. There are some other issues, one I mentioned earlier that the red cards seem to cover too wide a range of possibilities. We had bids of 4 where 16 cards were found and bids of 18 where only 3 things were found. Something like "teeth" comes up, and most everybody and everything has teeth.
That brings me to the third big thing- what's a teeth? Well, sure it sounds easy but there is clearly a single tooth on the board. Ok, not that big of a deal, but if a single tooth is one of "teeth" then, are four flowers drawn together one "flowers" or four "flowers". Over thinking it you say? What's a beard? Should the guy with stubble count for a beard? How about "Something you sit on" (can't remember the exact phrasing)? As I point out, you sit on the ice cream cone, and everything else on the board. Maybe not intentionally, but when the time is running down and someone is trying to get to 12 things, there isn't a way to pause and have a discussion about why or why not the car hood is viable as "something you sit on".
The last is that, well it's hard to keep the kids from cheating. I'm not talking about, say, discussing what constitutes a fly before the game, and whether or not the mosquito image counted as a fly, and then drawing "insects or spiders", that's just remembering something about the board. I'm talking about letting the kids take the time to make sure they understand what "transportation" is without allowing them to look at the board while doing so. Apart from once there wasn't intentional cheating, but constant accusations of cheating doesn't make the game any fun either. And I don't know about your kids but mine WANT to read the cards and most of the educational value I think is removed if the parents just have to read the card to start the timer fairly (not to mention the occasional explanation of words like "transportation").
We have only played once, and the kids were DONE with the game. We played a long game of classic monopoly the night before, and they were already asking for that again over playing Pictureka! a second time. Even the one who loved it didn't want to give it a second go. The other one, well after finding out he didn't like it I waited a bit and then said, "Hey, what would you think if we could get rid of the bidding, would you like it then?"
"That would be GREAT!" he replied.
Yeah, so many minor issues, one major one- the red cards stink because the bidding is open ended and carries no consequence, but has the outright reward of getting to play that turn. Without some balanced consequence that doesn't punish an already conservative player, the bidding is just outright BROKEN and ruins the game.
It is a shame too, because otherwise the game is very good and the other minor issues would not prevent any of us from wanting to play again.
 Great concept June 13, 2010
M. Heiss (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In theory, I love this game.
We are wild about Walter Wick's "I Spy" books and "Can You See What I See" books. We are really good at finding pictures and scanning -- that's what is needed for this game.
The rules are simple -- roll a color dice to choose a color card, then follow the card. The person who finds the picture wins the card -- first player who collects 6 cards (or whatever number) wins the game. Our 5-year-old won the first game -- fair and square.
There are also opportunities to change the game by flipping the game board and to challenge other players by bidding to find a higher number of items. All great.
So, this should be a game I love -- everyone has the skills to play, it forces players to pay attention and scan for items, it moves FAST, the kids enjoy it.
But I don't love it. Too many of the pictures are gross-out -- find a farting bull, find smelly feet, find a steaming pile of poop, find body odor coming from someone's armpits... It isn't the ENTIRE game, but it is inescapable.
Fine for a good-natured grin, but the potty humor cuts down on how and when (and with whom) we will enjoy the game.
 Provides more headaches than fun April 18, 2010
mcdao (Saint Louis, MO USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this game for my two boys, ages 6 and 9, to play together as a family. We played for about 10 minutes and both boys were bored. As a family, we really love games, but this one was too easy and the rules have too many loopholes. I wish I had my 20 bucks back honestly. My kids weren't impressed and I apparently need glasses, because now I have a killer headache from scanning the pictures!
 Love this for the family February 23, 2010
SSS (NJ)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Got this for my 5 year old for Christmas. We love playing as a family; even my 3 year old can join in (though he also tends to leave the room for something or other during board games!). We really do enjoy it, and while it's not the most educational game on earth, it does require good discernment and searching and concentration. We have the card game, too, and sometimes play after dinner. One of our favorites.
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