The O line, explained
On a classic Pictionary card the O line is Object. It is the bread-and-butter line, the biggest pool in the bank and the fairest for a mixed table. The generator above builds a full five-word card and rolls the die; when the roll shows O, the drawer uses the word on this line. Every word in the bank carries a letter, so the 3988 words below are exactly what the O line is drawn from: apple, banana, bread in the easy tier, burrito, sushi, waffle in the medium tier and animal crackers, pet rock, the perfect skipping stone in the hard tier.
How to draw object words
Draw the object’s outline and then one context clue that fixes its size or use: a hand next to a hairbrush, a wall socket next to a plug, a slice next to a pizza cutter. Most objects are guessed from the outline alone; the clue is for the ones that are not. The drawing guide goes deeper, with a worked example for each kind of word.
House rules for the O line
A common house rule gives the guessing team a second guess on an O when the first was the right object in a different word (a mug for a cup). The rules guide lists the official scoring and the popular variations; the printable page puts cards with all five lines on paper.