Cheating in Draw Something

There are many millions of players on OMGPOP's hit game, Draw Something, so when people start cheating on the game, you know you've got a problem.

What is Draw Something?

If you've never played the game before, Draw Something makes you an artist by giving you words to draw, your friend then has to guess what you're drawing, players take turn to draw and guess each others drawing. When you earn enough coins, you can use them to purchase colors and different brushes in the store.

Draw Something Cheats

People usually take the effort to draw the words, but once in awhile, especially if you're playing with anonymous people on the internet, you get lazy players who simply write out the word on the screen - it's simply not what the game is about and in the long term, these kind of people will spoil the game if OMGPOP and Zynga don't do anything about it.

The chief executive of OMGPOP responded to the issue by saying that cheating is actually less of a problem on the mobile version of Draw Something than it is on the PC - because on the mobile versions, the game is designed to be played with friends and there's a lower chance of them writing out the word because it defeats the purpose of playing the game and it ruins the game for your friends.

The real problem only arises when you have to play with strangers, this is a possibility when none of your friends are online to play with you.

Despite this, there's really no way to stop a person from writing out the word - but OMGPOP has some measures in place to discourage cheating. When the cheaters write out the words, other players usually ignores them and deletes the match, there's a record of how many times a player gets cancelled on, these people will get less matches.