How to play

DrawClash is explained in a few seconds – and yet there are a few tricks that earn you a lot more points. Here you’ll find everything from starting the game to the perfect sketch.

1. Start the game

On the home page, click “Play now”. You don’t need to register or install anything – DrawClash runs entirely in the browser, on your phone just as well as on your PC.

On the start screen you pick a nickname and choose your language. The language determines which language the words and the AI’s guesses are shown in – the options include English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Swedish.

2. Create or join a room

DrawClash is played in rooms. You have two options:

Create a new room: you get a 6-digit room code and an invite link that you can pass on to friends.
Join a room: enter the 6-digit code someone sent you, or simply open the invite link – then you land straight in the right room.

Tip: the invite link already contains the room code. Whoever clicks it only has to enter a nickname.

3. Draw a round

At the start of each round you’re assigned a word, for example “bicycle”, “sun” or “lighthouse”. Your task: draw that word so the AI recognises it.

While you draw on the canvas, the AI analyses your strokes continuously. Next to (on PC/tablet) or below (on phone) the drawing you see the AI’s top guesses as bars – along with the probability in percent. As soon as your word is at the very top and recognised confidently enough, the round is done for you.

4. Drawing buttons and power-ups

During a round the most important drawing tools sit right on the canvas. On the left you’ll find the attack buttons against other players, on the right the tools for your own drawing.

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Slow Ink

Activates targeting for Remote Slowing. Then click an opponent’s tile. Their ink lags behind with a short delay, making fast drawing harder.

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Remote Delete

Activates targeting for deleting an opponent’s work. Then click another player’s tile: their most recent strokes are taken back piece by piece.

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Undo

Takes back your own last stroke. Handy if you slipped up, without clearing the whole drawing.

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Eraser

Toggles erase mode on or off. When it’s active, you can rub out individual line segments from your drawing.

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Delete

Clears your current drawing completely. In team mode the button clears the shared team drawing so you can start over quickly.

Important: Slow Ink and Remote Delete only work against other players, not against yourself. They are limited per round and locked shortly before the round ends, so nobody can interfere destructively in the final seconds.

5. Points and winner

Speed counts: the earlier the AI reliably recognises your word, the more points you get. Points add up across several rounds. In the end, whoever drew most clearly and quickly on average wins.

Tips for higher recognition rates

Start with the basic shape

Draw the distinctive silhouette first (e.g. the frame of a bicycle) before adding details. The AI often recognises shapes even roughly.

Emphasise clear features

A shark needs its fin, an alarm clock its bells on top. Such typical features push the right guess to the front.

Don’t overload it

Too many strokes confuse recognition. Clear, simple sketches usually work better than detailed masterpieces.

Draw big and centred

Use the space. Very small sketches or ones squeezed into a corner are harder to recognise.

All set? Then get started:

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