Draw Something

I have recently obtained an iPhone 4S.  So far, the best part of about this new phone is an app I downloaded called Draw Something!  If you aren't playing it yet, you need to start.  I'm not sure if it is available for Droid, but I didn't download it until I got my iPhone.

Draw Something is essentially Pictionary.  You are provided with three different words, each worth a certain amount of points.  You choose which word you want to draw and get to it.  When you're finished, your opponent gets to watch you drawing the picture.  It is fun to see the actual act of drawing, rather than just the finished product.

Once your opponent guesses your word, they get to choose one of three words to draw for you.  When that picture is finished and sent to you, you get to watch your opponent guess your word first.  You can see exactly when your picture came together for your opponent.

If you're worried that you're not the best artist, it doesn't matter.  The game provides you with the number of letters in the word that must be guessed, as well as a pool of letters.  Still can't figure it out?  You can blow up some of those letters to narrow it down.

You earn coins based on the level of difficulty of the pictures you choose to draw.  You can spend those coins on more bombs to reduce the letters provided.  You can spend coins to get a different group of words to choose from.  You can even buy additional colors to draw in using the coins.

If you sign into the game using you Facebook information, others who are signed in via Facebook information will show up if you choose to create a game.  Additionally, you can create games with random strangers.  Thus far, I haven't experienced a long wait when creating a game with a random opponent.

If you're playing on a phone, it can be difficult to draw detailed pictures, as your fingers are your tools.  The game does provide you with a choice regarding the width of your lines, which does help.  I had heard from others that they would often see the same words repeatedly.  More words were recently added, so I hope to not have that particular problem.

The biggest problem I have experienced so far is the random opponent who writes words as clues, rather than actually drawing anything.  I have yet to figure out the best way to deal with these imbeciles, but I'll come up with something.  When the name of the app is Draw Something, you would think they would get the hint.

If you have a phone capable of downloading it, go get Draw Something.  It's a lot of fun, and it's a pretty well thought out app.  The biggest problem is the occasional random person that doesn't get the point of the game, but it is easy to find your actual friends to play with via your Facebook credentials.  Try out Draw Something; you won't regret it.