Hints are made to be used at the right time. A player, even high ranked shall not draw the number of letters (it's in the hint) or the first letter (hint too). As I can see, now, 60 % of the players begin with giving one of those two hints (even both), before even trying to draw something. And when you use the "warn" button, you get insulted... Not funny anymore to play this

haha its still drawing

bump

its cool for a letter here and there, especially if its a tough word.. but it should not be used to replace sketches because that kills the fun and purpose of the game, you might as well just write the word if your gonna do that every time you sketch.

V4A =)

I do this when I don't know how else to draw the word OR when I simply don't know what the word means. Remove this possibility, and you lose a lot of foreigners who maybe come here to learn english words in a fun way. If I had to pass each time I didn't know how to draw a word, it would be too often, and I'd feel stupid and prolly not come here a lot. Nobody wants to feel stupid, and another good way of feeling stupid is to attempt to draw something that nobody is even close to guessing.

Still, it makes the game more boring, but needs to be allowed.

I guess an online game like this evolves; I don't know how it was "in the good old days" (whenever that was), but changes happen. So the question is which change should be allowed to happen; what has already happened, or a change that tries to prevent this...

Ban it, ban it, ban it.
Using it for simple words like 'high' or 'band' is not okay.
I do construct some difficult words in this way, but I would rather we rid ourselves of the concept altogether. I would be more than happy to stop using it at all if it meant that everybody else would.
After seeing the rise of this, I would gladly welcome the fall.

i think most everyone sees this in terms of 'every puzzle has to be solved so for the hard ones this is the last resort'
i think that is b.s. and every one does NOT have to be solved. that's why there are hard ones and thats how people get better by trying harder not by drawing an O where the letter O goes and calling it an egg or a smiley face or something and then telling others not to use letters. cheating is a strong word but that IS the word that best describes the use of letter shaped symbols when the rules clearly state no letters.
Pictionary is not Rebus.

There are only what 3 rules to this game?
Drawing <o> when 'eye'(or that sound) is in the word is fine but putting _ _ _ _spaces and then drawing little symbols in each space is clearly not what the rules call for and definitely not keeping in the spirit of Pictionary.
Drawing an eye in the space where an 'i' goes is playing against the rules---->also known as cheating. imho

well it is very annoying because its makes it even more difficult for the players AND the drawer. I think like an apple for a wuld be ok but not alot of them.

It's kind of ruined the game. It's one thing to use it as a last resort. Another to use it for the simplest of words.