COLORS

Colors & Color Packages (+bombs)

The paid version of Draw Something doesn't have ads and totally worth paying for because they're especially disruptive ads (signing in with Facebook can create FB "ads" too).

Colors come only in groups of 5 preselected colors in "packages," and cost 250 coins per package.  But coins can be purchased fairly cheaply (not a bad idea in the beginning just to get some good colors started), and often there are specials that pop up automatically giving 10 or more extra coins for free, etc, to speed things up a bit.

Bombs cost coins (or real money) too but the only thing *I* use them for is eliminating letters if I can't guess--but only for people I don't want to "offend," sometimes newbies who can get discouraged more easily at first.  (Personally I don't care about the length of a "winning streak," but some people do.)  I did accidentally spend some of my original bombs by having run my hand over the bottom area of the screen activating "special words for so-many bombs" until I realized what was happening.   Spending bombs to get "new words" is too expensive for what you get IMO.

Colors that come with the game are the primaries: red, blue, and yellow...plus black and there will always be "white" from using the eraser over a previously-drawn color.

my order of new color packages:

(this package gave me at least one version of the 3 secondary colors, plus 2 essential neutral colors):

...Mardi Gras (green, purple, orange, brown, gray)

(then I added packages in this order of importance):

...Ice Cream  (2 light colors including a "flesh"color, plus 2 darker browns)

...Beach (3 light blues for skies/water, beige, light brown)

...Holiday Nights** (dark green, dark red, navy blue, yellowish-orange, another red)

...Summer Nights (2 pinks, a lighter purple, 2 darks that aren't black or brown)

...Grayscale (5 grays...useful for all kinds of things)

...Back to School (pale/icy blue, pale yellow, bluish-green, navy?)

...Blue Crush (various med. to light blues including nice grayed-blue)

...Spring (brights pastels of purple, lt. green, aqua, pink, plus med bright pink)

...Shades of Red (more flesh colors, plus lt. terracotta, another bright red)

...Shades of Yellow (light to bright-medium)

...Shades of Green (bright med. limey green down to paler versions) 

...Shades of Orange (true orange, plus lighter yellowish-oranges)

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next I'll probably add:

Shades of Blue (more grayed-blues, med to paler blues)

Summer Nights (two true pinks, plus med-grayed purple, very-dark purple and blue)

Spooky (2 limey-greens light and med-lt, orange, purple, dark purple)

Shades of Brown (browns are more reddish)

Shades of Purple 

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I'll probably never get:

**Holiday (don't know why Holiday is always mentioned as the first choice for buying new colors since it's mostly a repeat of the primaries, except gives a dark gray & dark red)

Fall

Neon

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Colors appear in a row across the top of the screen (scrollable).
After buying more colors, they seem to be arranged in semi-random order.