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Telestrations

#46213BGG ↗

2009 · 4-8 players · 30min · weight 1.07 · 20,655 ratings

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ID
46213
Name
Telestrations
Year
2009
Rank
238
Min players
4
Max players
8
Playing time
30
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.0697
Num weights
502
Bayes avg
7.14611
Average
7.37717
Users rated
20655
Num owned
32162
Wanting
189
Wishing
2640
Num comments
3293
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:15:39 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
DrawingPaper-and-Pencil
Categories (3)
HumorParty GameReal-time
Description (290 chars)

The award-winning party game Telestrations will get your family and friends laughing as they draw what they see, then guess what they saw for hours of hilarious miscommunication. All players simultaneously sketch, pass, and guess while revealing laugh-out-loud and unpredictable outcomes!

LLM v2 (wide)

Core verb
draw, then guess
Decision shape
social
Reward schedule
immediate
Aesthetics
["Fellowship", "Expression", "Sensation"]
Core loop pitch
Draw a prompt; pass; next player guesses the drawing as words; pass; next person draws the guess.
Translation difficulty
Medium
Difficulty reason
Drawing telephone is naturally digital (Drawful, Gartic Phone proved it); a free Telestrations app exists from The Op Digital.
Direct digital port
Telestrations (mobile, The Op Digital)
Port kind
first_party
Closest loop translation
Gartic Phone
Primitive tags
["draw_then_caption_chain", "telephone_drift", "simultaneous_pass_book", "prompt_to_doodle_to_text"]
Confidence
0.9
Extracted at
Mon Apr 27 2026 11:40:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raw v2 JSON (876 chars)
{
  "game_id": 46213,
  "name": "Telestrations",
  "core_verb": "draw, then guess",
  "decision_shape": "social",
  "reward_schedule": "immediate",
  "aesthetics": [
    "Fellowship",
    "Expression",
    "Sensation"
  ],
  "core_loop_pitch": "Draw a prompt; pass; next player guesses the drawing as words; pass; next person draws the guess.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Medium",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Drawing telephone is naturally digital (Drawful, Gartic Phone proved it); a free Telestrations app exists from The Op Digital.",
  "direct_digital_port": "Telestrations (mobile, The Op Digital)",
  "direct_digital_port_kind": "first_party",
  "closest_loop_translation": "Gartic Phone",
  "primitive_tags": [
    "draw_then_caption_chain",
    "telephone_drift",
    "simultaneous_pass_book",
    "prompt_to_doodle_to_text"
  ],
  "confidence": 0.9
}

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).