The object of Sketchorama is to either draw a picture (without using words and/or letters) of a word given to you, so the rest of the players can guess what it is. Or (if you're not the current sketcher) try to guess the word someone is trying to draw. If your is guess almost correct, you will see the correct part of the word on the drawing board. If no one has guessed the correct word after 60 seconds everyone will receive a hint.

The word to draw will appear on the top of the drawing board. Click a color on the drawing board to draw with that color, click the eraser to erase from the board. If you double-click the eraser everything you've drawn will be erased.

If you think the sketcher is trying to cheat you can press the report cheat button, if more than half the players has pressed it, no points will be awarded that round and the sketcher will be warned.

If you're the sketcher and have no idea how to draw the current word, you can press the skip button and let the turn go the next player.

If you don't wish to draw at all you can uncheck the draw checkbox. This will remove you from the draw queue. Clicking it again will put you last in the queue. If everyone has unchecked the draw checkbox, the server will force people to draw. At least 3 persons have to be logged in to a game to be able to play. 10 is the maximum amount of players in a game.

At any time chat messages may be written by typing on the keyboard, the chat messages are sent to the other players by pressing the return key. However, if you're the current sketcher you're not allowed to write in the chat.

Every Sketchorama game is 10, 20 or 30 rounds (only the private games). The player with the highest score at the end of the game is the winner. If you are a registered member the highest score you have received will be stored after a game is over (only 10 and 20 minutes games). Depending on several factors you will also receive (or lose) ranking points after a game. Beware, if you log out of a game already running you will lose the same amount of ranking points as losing the game. However if you enter a game that is nearly finished and don't wish to lose ranking you have a short time to get out of the room without losing ranking.

Scoring

The scoring in Sketchorama is simple, the faster the word is guessed the more points are awarded the guesser and the sketcher. The maximum amount of points is 200 per round.

Game Settings

There is a tab called settings in the lobby that allows you to turn the in-game music on/off as well as the sound effects.