Draw Draw, drawing, draws, or drawn may refer to: Common uses * Draw (terrain), a terrain feature formed by two parallel ridges or spurs with low ground in between them * Drawing (manufacturing), a process where metal, glass, or plastic or anything ...

Something'' is a

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developed by OMGPop based on its browser game ''Draw My Thing'', launched on February 6, 2012. It won a Flurry App Spotlight Award in 2012. In the first five weeks after its launching, the game was downloaded 20 million times. On March 21, 2012, both ''Draw Something'' and OMGPop were bought by the gaming company

Zynga Zynga Inc. () is an American developer running social video game services. It was founded in April 2007, with headquarters in San Mateo, California. The company primarily focuses on mobile and social networking platforms. Zynga states its missio ...

for $180 million. The game's popularity peaked on the day of the sale, and the number of daily active users tumbled from 15 million to 10 million by early May. The game is available in a free version, which shows interstitial advertisements between games; a standard version which has no advertisements between games, but allows the player to obtain bombs in exchange for watching advertisements; and a more expensive Pro version for the iPad which offers unlimited bombs. On April 25, 2013, ''Draw Something 2'' was released for

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Gameplay

Two players take turns drawing a picture of a given word, after which their partner must guess the word from the drawing. The person drawing will always have a choice of three words worth one, two and three stars. The words given are random, and the more valuable the word the more difficult it will usually be to represent in a drawing (for example, "circle" might be a one-star word, whereas "lion" might be worth two-stars, and a more abstract idea like "stress" could be three-stars). After the player has finished drawing, the guesser will view a stroke by stroke replay of the drawing, without the pauses in between. The guesser is given a number of blank spaces representing the number of letters in the word, and a selection of scrambled letters, which include all the letters of the word plus some more letters which are not in the word. The guesser gets unlimited tries and time to use these letters and attempt enter the guess word. The drawer gets an opportunity to watch their partner guess the drawing as it is replayed. Each player is given a number of "bombs". As a guesser, the bomb eliminates letters which are not part of the answer; as a drawer, the bomb gives a new set of guess words to choose from. If the guesser cannot guess the word, they can "pass", forfeiting the game. This breaks the pair's winning streak. As of December 15, 2022, Draw Something is no longer available in the App Store.

Board game

In 2012, Zynga, in conjunction with

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, released a physical board game version of ''Draw Something'' under the "Hasbro Gaming" imprint. This is one of several games in the Zynga game library to be released as physical board game versions. Others include ''

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'', a ''

CityVille ''CityVille'' is a defunct casual gaming, casual social network game, social city-building game, city-building game developed by Zynga, and released in December 2010. A sequel, ''CityVille 2'', was released in December 2012. It was closed down on ...

'' edition of ''

Monopoly A monopoly (from Greek language, Greek el, μόνος, mónos, single, alone, label=none and el, πωλεῖν, pōleîn, to sell, label=none), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situati ...

'' and several kids' games based on ''

FarmVille ''FarmVille'' is a series of agriculture-simulation social network game developed and published by Zynga in 2009. It is similar to ''Happy Farm'' and ''Farm Town''. Its gameplay involves various aspects of farmland management, such as plowing l ...

''.

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