To Help everyone out, and possibly myself, here’s what I have left, and what I found in a special category. How to enter cheat codes on yahtzee with buddies. Don’t spend precious Bombs unless there’s a particular subject you want – if you are waiting for a ‘badge” word – they eventually come up in the “free section” if you don’t like your choices or you picked a category and doesn’t contain the word u want, or got forced into selecting a word u don’t want – there is a solution to “re-set” new words – all you have to do is close the Draw Something and go surf the web, come back in a bit and you will re-open Draw Something with a brand new selection of words and categories. Sometimes I will close off 5-6 times before I get something I want. As for “Mulder” it shows up in Sci Fi (for whomever it was who was looking for it).

Draw Something, which is available for both Apple and, sounds simple and, in some ways, unoriginal. It wasn’t the first drawing game online, and it stands on the shoulders of. But its apparent unsophistication is a feature, not a bug.

Draw Something’s simple user interface and game mechanics are what make it irresistible. It’s not surprising that Words with Friends as the most popular game connected to Facebook. In just the past week, Draw Something gained nearly, and it seems destined to gain even more. That’s because it is one of the most intensely addictive mobile games I’ve ever played. It may be the apotheosis of social, mobile gaming—the best example yet of a nascent form of fun. What makes Draw Something so hard to resist? First, there’s the interface, which is a model of minimalist efficiency.

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When you load it up for the first time, you’re asked to connect to your online social networking accounts—you can skip this step if you just want to play with random people—and that’s it. The game doesn’t require a tutorial, and doesn’t even post any rules. Indeed, there are almost no rules.

Other competing mobile drawing games impose time limits on rounds, starkly warn you never to write out the clues, and use complex point systems. Here you just get into the game—pick an opponent, and either draw a given clue or guess the other guy’s drawing. If you guess someone else’s drawing, you both get points. I suspect that Draw Something’s laxity on the rules contributes to its popularity. It should be obvious that you shouldn’t cheat by, say, writing “North ” and “South ” when you’re trying to draw Korea. If you do that in a game with me, I’m going to stop playing with you, cheater!

But different people have different conventions. Indeed, drawing games are democratic—they appeal to non-native English speakers (Draw Something is ) and young people (to judge by their Facebook profiles, a lot of my Draw Something competitors are teenagers). Given the wide variance in worldwide drawing and English vocabulary skills, it makes sense to keep the rules vague. If you don’t speak English very well—or if you haven’t yet learned about Korea in school—textual clues may be your only way to play. Like Words with Friends, Draw Something is asynchronous: When I draw a shark and send it over to you, you can figure it out at your leisure.

As a result, you’ll have many games going on simultaneously—I’m playing with about a dozen people right now, some of whom I know and most of whom are strangers. But Draw Something adds a simple feature that has the magical effect of shrinking the time and distance between people: When you’re guessing my drawing, you don’t just see what I drew—you see how I drew it, a near-real-time playback of all my starts, stops, and erasures. But in this pain comes pleasure. As I said, I’m terrible at drawing; Pictionary is my party-game nightmare. When I drew my first Draw Something picture, I was terrified.

But as I played the game, I noticed something amazing—lots of people are terrible drawers, and it’s great fun to see just how terrible they are. You do notice some geniuses among the bunch—one person I was playing with drew an Old Masters-worthy still-life to get me to guess “juice.” It’s fun watching these great artists. But as the, there’s more communal hilarity—and less feeling bad about yourself—in being a bad Draw Something player than in being a good one. Draw Something’s rise has earned its maker attention from the big guys in online gaming; that Zynga, the behemoth that makes Words With Friends, has been in talks to purchase the game’s creator, OMGPOP.

The company that it was taken by surprise by the popularity of Draw Something and is scrambling to update the game with many features that users have requested, including a chat function and the ability to save and share your drawings. (My wife lost a treasured, inspired picture of Weird Al Yankovic—she was trying to draw “weird”—when the other player quit the game.)I support these changes, but I hope the company doesn’t lard up the game with a lot of extra baubles.

Draw Something is almost perfect as it is, and in its simplicity, it should serve as a model for other games. It marshals all the powerful technology we now have in our hands—mobile, touchscreen devices with powerful graphics, ubiquitous Internet connections, and globe-spanning social networks—into a sublime experience.

If this is a model for entertainment in the post-PC era, we’re in for a good time.