Draw Something, The Bastard Child of Pictonary and Jumble.
April 13, 2012
Recently a friend of mine got me into Draw Something. I knew of the game, but didn't know exactly how it worked. I figured it was just an online version of Pictonary, but there's more too it than that. The way the game works is you get three words of questionable increasing difficulty, I say questionable because I've seen the same word used in more than one difficulty several times, but I digress. You pick the word, then you have the fun task of drawing a picture to help your friend guess the word. Not the easiest feat for me as I'm playing on an iPhone, and none of my styluses work on the screen, so i'm forced to use my fingertips, which aren't the most precise tool to draw with, but again I digress.
I thought your friend would only have the picture you drew to guess the word, after all that's how Pictonary works, but no, when you solve a word, not only do you get the picture, but you also get a set of twelve letters and are told the lenght of the word. Usually this isn't a problem, but sometimes the letter you get are so obvious that the picture isn't even needed.
Today's comic is bases on reality, but it is a bit exaggerated. The actual word was firewood. So I drew a picture of a campfire, then drew a pilee of logs next to the fire with an arrow pointing at them. My friend guessed the word correctly before I was done drawing the outline of the fire. Not because we're just so super in tune with each other, but because the letters it gave her were d, e, f, i, o, o, q, r, w, w, w, and z. Firewood's the only eight letter word you CAN spell with those letters!
I think the game would be a lot more enjoyable if instead of using the bombs the eliminate letters not in the actual word, you use them to make the twelve lettes show up in the first place, but then again that's not what a bomb would do is it?