Hello, I'm having a debate and I'd like your opinion and possibly official answer. It's about BigPicture room as you could guess. The rules says only "The words in the puzzle may NOT be drawn individually, rather incorporated into one image."
and the example picture in DON'Ts section of the RULES page shows separate drawings of the words with 2 strokes over them to detail the number of words and possibly the grammar signs (apostroph, hyphen, ...)

The text rules don't clearly state you can't draw those strokes and/or number the words.. like drawing a correct BigPicture drawing but writing numbers and arrows pointing at the various parts of what's to find.

My opinion : this is definitely forbidden, even if it's not clearly stated. Because it destroys the purpose of the room.. which is to have only one big drawing and not having just to "follow numbers and arrows" to find the answer. (or even a rébus... which would be even worse)

What's the official rule ?
- strokes for words : allowed / forbidden
- numbers to numerate the order of words : allowed / forbidden
- rébus : allowed / forbidden ?

thanks.

Hi Johnny
The official rule is:
"The words in the puzzle may NOT be drawn individually, rather incorporated into one image."

which, as you have said is not explicit about using strokes, numbers, arrows etc.

My thoughts are:

It is usually quite clear that a person is not going to draw a BP when they start by writing the number 1 near the top left of the screen, so in this case the number is a likely indication that the person will violate the BP rules(though not strictly against the rules at that point)

If a BP is drawn correctly, and then arrows are used to indicate where the words are, I think this is OK - I have seen some remarkably complex and artistic pictures in that room that, without arrows, the two words are lost within the detail. To put numbers on the arrows is kind of pointless as you don't need to find the words in order, but numbers or arrows aren't against the rules.

I agree that syllabalising would violate the rules of the room as you would be attempting to 'draw' an individual word.

In the Big Picture room you do need to guess the words in the right order (you only get the points for guessing the 2-3 word puzzle all at once, so using numbers wouldn't be pointless. (you're confused with TWBP).

I'd say, as long as it's still one picture, arrows are fine. Also, showing the number of syllables is ok, as long as you don't draw the syllables.

In the Big Picture room you do need to guess the words in the right order (you only get the points for guessing the 2-3 word puzzle all at once, so using numbers wouldn't be pointless. (you're confused with TWBP).



Oh yep.
Right you are.
/ignore Saffron :rolleyes: