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Sketch-Off!

Sketch-Off!

You draw, the AI guesses. Pictionary with a machine.

word generation · mistral-smallimage recognition · mistral-medium

01How it works

02Story

I wanted to know if AI can follow a drawing as it happens, not just label a finished picture. It guesses while you sketch, and you end up drawing for it.

Making it a game, with a score and a clock, made it far more fun than any chat.

03Lessons

It answers in a fixed shape, JSON, so the game can read it.

Not everything needs a model: plain code checks the guess and keeps score.

Players quickly invent an "AI-friendly" style: big, bold, exaggerated.

04Tech

Every 4 seconds the canvas becomes a snapshot sent to a vision model. Small local vision models do well here, because these drawings are simple, high-contrast shapes.

05Try this

  • Start simple: a house, a tree, a car
  • Try a quick sketch versus a detailed one
  • Draw something abstract on hard mode
Sketch-Off!

Sketch-Off!