Meet Your Crew: friends, challenges, and shared streaks in one place. Invite a friend and you both get 1,000 coins when they solve their first theme. New Pixels controls with pinch-to-zoom and hold-to-aim. Faster starts, fixed sound on iPhone, and a pile of polish. Full notes Your Crew - New Crew area with Today, Friends, and Inbox tabs. See who in your crew has solved today's puzzles and how fast. - Crew stats: best days and best weeks, with all-time records. - Compare yourself with any friend puzzle by puzzle: you, them, and the gap. Step back through previous days. - Crew button in the bottom bar shows who's around, with a quick popout. - The completed screen now shows your crew's results and hands off to your solve. - Inbox badge counts unseen items and clears when you open it. Invite friends, earn rewards - Give 1,000, get 1,000: when a friend you invited solves their first theme, you both get 1,000 coins. New players also get a few days of VIP. - Invite Friends screen tracks your recruits with milestones at 3, 5, and 10 friends: a coin bonus, VIP days, and the Recruiter crest worn beside your name. - Invite links no longer expire. Every share includes your personal invite link. - You can challenge someone who doesn't have the game yet. The invite carries the challenge. - A player's first friend by code counts as their recruiter. Challenges - Challenge a friend straight from the completed screen, with both times shown side by side. - Defend flow: when a friend challenges you, a 3·2·1·Go countdown starts the clock and their pace shows as a ghost bar. - Challenge marks on the hub: crossed swords until it's decided, then a sword for a win or a broken sword for a loss. - Friendly taunts show a "Taunt sent" check and only appear where a taunt can still be sent. - Challenge picker lists friends you've played this week first. Pacts - Start a shared streak with a friend: it grows every day you both find the theme. Nudge a friend who hasn't played yet, and celebrate milestones together. Puzzles - Pixels: new precision controls. Pinch to zoom anywhere, hold to aim, quick swipes paint instantly, a second finger cancels a stroke. How to Play gained a page on controls. - Crowns: tap to mark an X, double-tap to place a crown, drag to paint Xs. - Suspect: long clue scraps scroll, words shrink to fit. - The back arrow exits straight to the hub. The fastest-friend time shows your delta. Sound - New audio engine. Fixes sound going silent on iPhone after switching apps or a phone call. Accounts - Guest sign-in sheet shows what you'd lose, with your own numbers. - Switching to an existing account from guest mode no longer loses an invite. Fixes and performance - Faster app start. - A completed puzzle always opens on its results view instead of a bare board. - Rewards are never lost if the connection drops mid-submit. Coin purchases and hint spends no longer report a false failure. - Cloud restore no longer stalls part-way through. - Unlock dialog no longer double-closes, and unlock errors show a real message. - Invite links open the app correctly from a fresh install. - Discover Induction, our other puzzle game, from inside the app.

New features - Streak Shield — saves your streak if you miss a day - In-app feedback — message the team directly - Crowns: New Hint type, "Show the Logic" Improvements - Daily reminder and streak-warning notifications - Player profile - Friend profiles with stat comparisons - "Fastest friend" callout on the win screen - Send a "Sore Loser?" taunt after losing a challenge - Cleaner large-screen/tablet layouts New players - Play as a guest - Fewer ads - Puzzles now unlock as you play

New Puzzle Types! -Trails - Draw a single continuous path through a themed grid -Crowns - Queens-style placement puzzle with a hidden word -Suspects - Whodunit word-deduction puzzle Social & Sharing -Challenges + "Rub It In" Taunts -Friend Profiles - See how you've interacted and what how you compare Monetization & Retention -One free daily puzzle unlock -Free daily coin chest -Higher puzzle rewards, unlocks cheaper Achievements -Added new Achievements, including all newer puzzle types

Puzzles - Pixels - New puzzle (nonogram), replacing Focus - Search - Bonus-word count and coins earned shown under the word list - Swap - Tile scramble now generated server-side for fairness Rub It In (Taunts) - Pay 100 coins to rub in a won challenge with an emoji or GIF Friends -New "Invite a Friend" button on Friends tab Fixes - iOS sound preload and push reliability - Stuck friend-request toast cleared - Blocked derivative words in Search/Cross/Connexus

Share Feedback You can now give a quick thumbs up or down on individual puzzles and how you feel about the entire day once you complete everything! Share your thoughts so we can improve! New Features Bonus points for hidden words in Search Find words in Search puzzles that aren't part of the official solution and you'll now earn bonus points. Improvements Hints and locks now visible when you Share & on friend leaderboards

Focus puzzle — revamped guessing - Type-to-guess: Your first 3 attempts now use a free-form text box — type a word of any length instead of filling fixed hex tiles. Hex tiles take over for the remaining attempts. - Real-word checking: Guesses are validated against a full English dictionary (80k+ words). A wrong guess that isn't a real word is rejected without costing you a heart, so you can't burn attempts on nonsense. - Revealed hints stay put: Hint letters appear as a locked prefix in front of what you type. - Layout polish: larger near-full-width puzzle image and cleaner scaling of the input, hearts, and GUESS button across screen sizes. Swap puzzle — more chances - Starting attempts increased 12 → 16. - Each unlock now grants 4 more attempts (was 3). Connexus / Spanagram — fairer clue reveals - The intel clue list now displays and progressively reveals in a scrambled order instead of following the words' natural sweep across the grid — so hints no longer cluster around neighboring words. The order is deterministic (same on every device, stable for the day). Polish & fixes - Long words no longer overflow: the Connexus center readout shrinks long answers to fit; the Links hearts row also scales to fit. - Settings: fixed app-version flicker / redundant lookups on the Settings screen.