Draw Something {That I Can Guess Correctly}

When my sister Elise was home from college over break, she talked me into downloading Draw Something.  It’s SO fun!  You have to play!  She also quit playing 5 wins into our streak.  She does this with every game… talks me into it, then quits.  It’s like she’s away at college, hanging out with her boyfriend El, and president of her sorority or something.  

Here is the premise, you get a choice of three words, easy medium and hard, but I think they are totally arbitrary assignments.  You draw and your friend guesses, then vice versa.  The two of you together see how long a winning streak you can make.  My longest streak is at 99 right now, not surprisingly it isn’t with the Davester who believes his drawings to be Picasos, which they are not.  As you get words right, you earn coins and can buy new colors since you start out with four and it sucks to try to draw an orange with black, blue, red, and green.  They give you the spaces and a small choice of letters to guess the answer so even if your drawer isn’t the best, you can sometimes still guess from the letters.

And sometimes not.

Does anyone know what a NARWAHL is because I guessed shamu, whale, dolphin, and a million other guesses before taking a pass on that sucker, sending my friend Chris and I back to zero.

My friends run the gamut from drawings that look like Finnegan drew them, to amazing artists who make you feel badly that you’ve never watched Lord of the Rings because OMG that is the BEST hobbit I’ve never seen, if only I didn’t think it was Scarface, sorry Brad for screwing up our streak! 

I have to also mention that in the game, the person can see your drawing in real time so if you screw up, they see it as it happens.  That sucks, but the cool thing about it is that you can make your drawing move too.  My friend Cheryl {and I wish I had thought to take video of this} added seeds in a pot of dirt and then made the plants grow.  It was very fun. 

There are also cheating bastards {I removed the name to protect the guilty!}

And awesome sauce HOBO drawers…

Here are some of my ridiculous drawings. {Please don’t mind the awful “I don’t have an iPhone” screenshots.} I am clearly not making any of the “best of” features that they show from all the drawings.

It seems like half the universe has the app.  Do you play?