Patent ID: 7887058

Claim:
A method of playing a drawing game, comprising: providing an electronic game system; playing a plurality of rounds in order to determine a winner of the drawing game, wherein the successful completion of a predetermined amount of rounds of the plurality of rounds determines the winner of the drawing game; playing at least a first round of the drawing game, the first round comprising the steps of: providing a word to a first player; initiating a timer of the electronic game system; sketching, by the first player after initiation of the timer, clues to the word by providing sequential inputs on a drawing input device of the electronic game system to create portions of a drawing on a display of the electronic game system while a second player by observing the drawing on the display, attempts to identify the word, wherein the electronic game system begins to erase the portions of the drawing on the display corresponding to the sequential inputs in the order in which said sequential inputs were provided, after a first predetermined time period after initiation of the timer; and providing an award based at least in part on whether the second player correctly identifies the word before the timer runs to a second predetermined time period, after initiation of the timer, wherein the first predetermined time period is less than the second predetermined time period, and wherein the award is used to determine if the first round has been successfully completed and therefore one of the predetermined amount of rounds of the plurality of rounds has been successfully completed.