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hello and welcome to tap that app I'm Jason Parker and this is the show where we show off the hottest apps in the mobile space there's a hot new game that's made its way to the top of the iTunes App Store the challenges both your drawing ability and your ability to identify bad drawings it's called draw something it's very similar to that old board game pictionary where you would draw for someone and they would have to identify what you were drawing and draw something there's no time limits on your drawing because it's a turn-based game kind of like words with friends where you can take your time draw your picture and then you send it off and then your friend who will get the notification will then have their turn to guess your drawing and then draw a picture of their own to get started you sign up within the game or you can sign in through Facebook or Twitter to find friends once you have a game set up a screen comes up asking you to choose an easy medium or hard word so a word like Sun would be relatively easy to draw with you know just to yellow circle but then a word like rapture would be much harder to draw requiring a lot more work once you've selected your word you can start drawing right away or you can use the included tools like line width eraser with and you also have a limited number of colors that are up here in the top but you can buy more with sets using the coins that you earn within the game once you're satisfied with your drawing you can send it off to your friend and then your friend gets a chance to figure out what your drawing is and then draw a picture of his own for you to guess when it comes back your way each time you guess the drawing correctly you're awarded coins based on the difficulty of the word that was chosen so an easy word would get one coin where a hard word would get three coins you'll want to earn coins too because you use coins to buy more colors and you're only given a limited number of colors to start off this becomes extremely important when you have to draw plants and you have no green unfortunately color packs are pretty expensive so you're gonna have to play a lot of games to earn enough coins to get the green for those plants the interesting thing about this game is that you're not competing against your friend the object instead is to go for as many rounds as possible so it's like a team game you're working together to try to get past as many drawings as you can I should note the game is very addictive and I already have a few games going even though I've only played over the past few days draw something is on sale right now for $0.99 at the iTunes App Store but may move back to $1.99 soon so you better grab it while you care I'm Jason Parker from CNET and this has been tap that up thanks for watching