Offline Game Box - Changelog

Beta 1.10 July 17, 2026 Newest

Reaching 2048 keeps your board instead of ending it, stuck Water Sort and Nuts & Bolts boards give you a way back, and the iPad subscription page scrolls the way it should.

Keep playing

A way back from a stuck board - Water Sort and Nuts & Bolts now notice when a board is truly out of moves, instead of letting you keep shuffling a lost puzzle. When it happens, you can watch a short clip to rewind your last move and keep sorting - as many times as you like.
Hitting 2048 no longer ends your run - in 2048, Hex 2048, and Drop Merge, reaching the goal counts the win but leaves your board live so you can keep climbing. Backing out saves the run, and the game's own button reads Continue when there's one to pick back up.
A Fuzzlings continue that actually helps - watching for one more go now whisks the littlest fuzzlings away to clear you some room, instead of dropping you back onto a full board that ends the round right away.

Fixes

No lost or doubled moves - swiping fast in 2048, or closing the app mid-cascade in Drop Merge, could skip a spawn or play a move twice. Every move now finishes cleanly, or picks up exactly where it left off after a relaunch.
The round timer stays honest - coming back from a full-screen ad could leave the timer frozen; it keeps time correctly now.
Restore Purchases within reach on iPad - the subscription page now scrolls all the way to Restore Purchases and the Terms and Privacy links, with a Restore button right up top too.
Restore works for past yearly members - Restore Purchases now correctly brings back the ad-free perk for a previous yearly subscriber, even after a fresh install.

Beta 1.9 July 14, 2026

The Daily Puzzle gets a pause menu and a fairer rotation, and the music steps aside when an ad shows up.

Daily puzzles

A proper pause menu - the Daily Puzzle now has the same one as the rest of the box: music and sound sliders, how-to-play, replay the walkthrough, and a restart that re-deals today's board. Your daily streak isn't at stake when you restart.
Walkthroughs where you need them - meeting a game for the first time in the Daily Puzzle now plays its walkthrough, the same one free play gives you, instead of dropping you in cold.
A fairer rotation - the same game never turns up two days running now, variants included. Previously the tail of every cycle collapsed into a long block of whichever game has the most modes, which meant stretches of Sudoku; it now lands every few days instead.
Four more games in the rotation - Color Flow, Word Search, Memory, and Minesweeper (both classic and Puffer Sweep) now take their turn as the puzzle of the day.
Dressed for the right variant - a daily round now shows its own variant's backdrop. Arrow Sudoku's daily was quietly wearing classic Sudoku's scene.

Fixes

No more accidental declines - tapping the dimmed backdrop behind the continue offer used to count as turning it down, which could quietly cost you a streak. Now it's Keep Going or No thanks, made on purpose.
Music steps aside for ads - the game's song now mutes while a full-screen ad plays and picks up mid-phrase when you come back, instead of playing underneath it.
Tic Tac Toe - the winning line no longer keeps pulsing away after you tap Play Again.

Boards and puzzles

Freshly baked boards - Lights Out boards now always take a real minimum number of presses to solve, and every Minesweeper board is beatable by deduction with no lucky guesses.
Minesweeper's level number is retired - mines drop where you make your first tap, so no two players ever really shared a Level 7 board. The number was telling you something that wasn't true.

Beta 1.8 July 5, 2026

One more quick lap - a frozen-resume bug thawed, Word Guess continues honored, and iPad boards sized right.

Fixes

Resume, unfrozen - returning to a saved round could come back frozen: the board drawn but deaf to every tap. Saved rounds now wake up ready to play, and boards no longer come back oversized after a resume.
Word Guess continues that count - watching the ad to borrow an extra guess now actually grants it. In both Word Guess and Four Boards, the earned guess used to vanish and the word was revealed anyway.

Roomier iPad boards

Word Guess, Nut Sort, Water Sort, Hex Lights Out, and Puffer Sweep now grow properly into the iPad canvas - bigger tiles and letters that scale with them, instead of tiny floating boards.
The Water Sort and Nut Sort racks get real breathing room on iPad - wider row gaps and balanced spacing instead of one cramped block with dead space below.

Beta 1.7 July 4, 2026

Daily streak milestones worth celebrating, rulebooks drawn with the real game pieces, and your place always saved.

One last lap

This is the final test build before the App Store launch. The beta-era invite cards and feedback shortcuts have been packed away and everything is dressed for release. Thank you for testing.

Daily puzzles

Streak milestones - wins on the big days (3 days, a week, a month, and beyond) now play escalating celebrations with stars and crowns, and the Daily Complete card becomes streak-focused, with a week strip showing the milestones ahead.
Break your best - the day a run passes your old record, a golden trophy celebration marks the moment, and while you're chasing it the card counts down the days left to match it.
The Daily Puzzles overview now shows your Best Streak in the top card.

How to play, with the real pieces

Every rules sheet now shows the game's actual pieces - real cards, tiles, mittens, runes, koi, and critters instead of stand-in shapes, all the way to faithful portraits of the arcade games' cakes, tacos, and Fuzzlings.
Chess got a full walkthrough - every piece with its own movement diagram, plus check, castling, promotion, en passant, and stalemate.

Your place, always saved

A catalog-wide pass fixed every way a round could lose its save: Killer and Thermo Sudoku now save mid-solve (including daily puzzles), versus games resume against the right opponent, and arcade games no longer lose progress when you leave at just the wrong moment.
Smaller catches everywhere: hint caps and undo trails survive a resume, Snake waits for your swipe after a restore, Spades bots keep their memory of played cards, and losses clear the save right away so a finished round stays finished.

Music

Music from the first tap - each game's song now starts on its intro screen and carries into the round without a restart.
The menus hum along - home and settings now play a gentle ambient loop instead of going quiet between games.

Sudoku

Pencil notes stay readable over arrows and Killer cage sums.
The end-of-round summary now reports your true mistake count, even after a continue.

Fit & finish

Comfier on smaller iPhones - Kakuro, Minesweeper, and Chess now keep their controls clear of the bottom edge on SE-height screens.
Minesweeper & Puffer Sweep: the hint offer is now a compact chip in the HUD row, giving the height back to the board - and digging finally sounds like digging.
Dark launch splash - the opening screen now dresses for dark mode.
Fuzzlings: the next critter now waits above the line and drops down through it, so it reads clearly before it enters play.
Gift codes - redeem one in Settings to unlock full All Access.

Beta 1.6 June 24, 2026

Choose a light or dark look, meet a cast of Fuzzlings with real personalities, and take on smarter Hearts and Spades opponents.

Look & feel

Light or dark, your choice - a new appearance setting lets you pick Light, Dark, or System. Leave it on System to follow your device, or pin the whole box to whichever look you prefer.

Fuzzlings

A whole cast of characters - every Fuzzling now has its own face and personality, from the wide-eyed baby of the smallest tier up to the crowned elder at the top, with bigger eyes, rosy cheeks, little sprouts, and happy beams.
The critters tumble and roll freely as they settle into the pile.

Games & balance

Nuts & Bolts is now Nut Sort - along with the fresh name, lifting a nut now carries the whole run of its color beneath it onto another bolt, just like pouring in Water Sort, so you move a stack in one tap instead of one nut at a time.
Tougher card opponents - the Hard and Very Hard bots in Hearts and Spades now think several tricks ahead instead of reacting to one card, so they defend the moon, cover a partner's nil, and dodge bags like a seasoned player. Easy and Medium are unchanged.
Smarter Spider taps - tapping a card in Spider Solitaire or Spider Mini now sends it to the spot that builds the longest matching-suit run, instead of just the nearest column.

Sudoku

Three strikes - free play now tracks your mistakes and ends the round on the third one, with a chance to keep going if you slip up. Daily puzzles and adventures still let you take your time.
Always solvable - every Sudoku puzzle is now guaranteed solvable by logic alone, with no guessing required, even on the hardest boards.
Restarting Killer or Thermo Sudoku now reloads the level you were on instead of jumping to a random new one.

Quality of life

Skip to the next level - stuck on a Sudoku, Kakuro, or Nonogram? A new button in the pause menu moves you on to a fresh board.
Resume Fuzzlings & Tower Stacker - step away from one of these mid-run and you'll come back to your pile or your stack right where you left it, instead of starting over.
Helpers work offline - hints, undos, and continues now work even with no connection, so the box stays fully playable wherever you are.
Solitaire's wild column now clearly shows that it's wild, with its own glowing marker and a quick note the first time, so it's obvious any card can start there.
Word Search: the shuffle button moved down beside the letter wheel, in line with the hint button.

Beta 1.5 June 17, 2026

Line clears and perfect landings get their own flourish, a timer for your rounds, and a new home for Spider Mini.

More in-the-moment flourishes

The little wins inside a round - clearing lines, landing a perfect stack, merging tiles - now set off their own scene-themed flourish instead of a generic sparkle.
Falling Blocks lights up the hearth - a wall of flame and a shower of embers, the stack springing down into the gap, and the whole board giving a shake.
Block Puzzle stitches each cleared line shut with a quilting needle, then folds the patches up into the quilt, with a bee flying across on the biggest clears.
2048 merges build in tiers, from a soft pop on the small tiles to a white-hot starburst when you reach 2048.
Sand Fall, Color Flow, and One Stroke each get their own finish - drifting petals, a racing glint, and a comet tracing your completed figure.

Games & balance

Tower Stacker: a flush landing now grows the cake back instead of only holding its width, and a run of perfect stacks builds toward a Sweet! and then a Showstopper! flourish.
Fuzzlings: the one-more-try now tumbles the whole pile like popcorn so matching fuzzlings knock together and merge, clearing room without ever wiping your board.
Falling Blocks: flick up to hard-drop straight into the column you aimed at, and a quick flick no longer drifts your piece sideways.
Water Sort: redrawn liquid colors that are easier to tell apart, especially on the busier boards.

Card games

Hearts & Spades: a finished trick now sweeps to whoever won it - the four cards gather, glide toward their seat, and fade before the next trick is led.

Quality of life

Round timer - win a round and you'll see how long it took, in the pause menu and on the win screen. Pausing and stepping away don't count.
Favorite your games - once you've spent some time with a game, a gentle nudge points out the favorite star, and your favorites jump to the top of your list.
Spider Mini joins Spider Solitaire as a quick play mode, with its own streaks and saved games, rather than a separate tile.
The how-to-play sheet now dresses itself in the art and colors of whichever variant you've picked.
Clearer first-move walkthroughs with bigger, easier-to-read tips, and a fresh launch screen.

Beta 1.4 June 10, 2026

Real music in every game, a pause menu when you need it, and puzzles you can always solve.

Music & sound

Real music in every game - every game and mode now has its own composed background track that loops seamlessly, finally retiring the procedurally-generated tunes. Apologies to all who preferred the non-stop funeral dirge. It streams in as the game opens, so play starts instantly and the music fades up a moment later.
Fresh sound effects - reworked collect, splash, sparkle, and confirm sounds, with each game getting cues tuned to fit it.

Quality of life

A proper pause menu - the in-game restart button is now a single pause menu with restart, how-to-play, and home all in one place.
Richer in-the-moment celebrations - the little wins during a round now get their own scene-themed effect instead of a generic sparkle: a rush of bubbles when you seal a bottle in Water Sort, warm embers when a card goes home in Solitaire, a cool oasis spray in Freecell, and scattering maple leaves and golden rays when you capture or crown a piece in Checkers.
A cleaner header - difficulty now lives in the level pill, and a slimmer "+N modes" pill on each home tile shows how many ways there are to play.
A consistent "Play Again" button across every end-of-round screen.

Card games

Redesigned Hearts & Spades table - a bigger central play area, named opponents, and losing cards that dim so the winning play stands out.

Learn as you play

More first-move tutorials - now live for every Sudoku, Chess, and Checkers variant, plus Flappy Taco, Fuzzlings, One Stroke, Kakuro, Reversi, and Color Flow.
Each variant now teaches its own twist - like Chess960's back-rank setup or Killer Sudoku's no-repeat cages - instead of repeating the basic lesson.

Fairer puzzles

Minesweeper & Kakuro are now always solvable by deduction - no lucky guesses required - and Minesweeper adds an optional hint that reveals a safe cell when you're stuck.
One Stroke grids always have a real solution.
Word Search draws from much bigger word pools, and a board no longer hides one answer inside another or repeats a plural of a word it already has.
Nonograms now use a curated set of recognizable picture patterns, with bigger pools at every size.

Games & balance

Word Search: a roomier board with the hint controls moved beside the letter wheel.
Sand Fall: steeper piles that speed up over time, so you have to keep spreading the sand instead of dumping it in one spot.
Falling Blocks: left/right swipes move pieces cleanly without drifting.
Hex Block Puzzle: pieces no longer clear a line on their own.
Fuzzlings: a smoke puff on every merge and sparkles on the newest piece.

Beta 1.3 June 3, 2026

Learn any game in a few taps, play Hearts solo, and never lose your place.

New games & modes

Hearts is now its own game - classic, every-player-for-themselves Hearts where the lowest score wins. The partnership game lives on as a free Teams variant.
Hearts Teams gets a midnight spy-dossier makeover - navy chrome, brass accents, and a surveillance-themed table.

Learn as you play

New interactive first-move tutorials - the first time you open one, a quick walkthrough rings what matters and plays the opening move for you on the real board. Now live for 2048 (and Hex 2048), Lights Out (and Hex Lights Out), Pipe Flow (and Three Springs), Water Sort, Nuts & Bolts, Minesweeper, Block Puzzle, Word Search, Sudoku, and Atomic Chess.
Drag-based lessons like Block Puzzle and Word Search let you grab the real piece yourself.
Replay any of them anytime from the rules page - with more games getting their own walkthrough soon.

Games & balance

Checkers: clearly-drawn endgames now end in a real Draw instead of shuffling forever.
Fuzzlings: a harder, fairer challenge with a clearer pulsing danger line and a pile that settles cleanly.
Flappy Taco Hoops: a fast basketball-style rework - swish the taco through angled rims to build a fire streak, with fatal misses, a ceiling, and rebuilt flaming rims that burn hotter and bigger as your streak climbs.
Nuts & Bolts: new landing and completion animations, with a ribbon that sweeps across a solved board and an endless-mode sparkle.
Smoother card dragging across Solitaire, Freecell, and Spider.

Quality of life

Autosave after every move - a crash or force-quit mid-round now resumes right where you left off.
Gameplay pauses while the how-to-play sheet is open.
A new What's New sheet with the release log and an in-app feedback form, plus a one-tap way to invite a friend to the beta.
Falling Blocks drags lock to a single axis so drops no longer drift sideways.

Beta 1.2 June 1, 2026

Two new ways to play, smarter card games, and a calmer ride.

New games & modes

Puffer Sweep - Hex Minesweeper reborn as a sunlit tide pool, with fresh reef art and a whole new world to sweep.
Fuzzlings goes underwater - a new mode where gravity flips and your pieces float up. Fuzzlings bob, drift, and pop up out of the water.

Smarter card games

Pull cards back down from the foundations in Solitaire & Freecell.
Neater, auto-compacting stacks in Solitaire, Freecell, and Spider.
Themed Klondike & Pyramid decks dressed to match their scenes.

New controls

Drag to move pieces in Chess, plus a clearer bishop.
Falling Blocks gains an upward-swipe hard drop and a pause button.

Smoother & friendlier

Sand Fall: piles now build steeper, so you have to spread the sand across the field instead of dumping it all in one spot.
Sudoku: clearer Undo / Erase / Notes buttons that no longer wash out against bright variant boards.
A richer Daily Puzzle completion celebration.
No more accidental restarts right after a loss.
Easier in-game help, now right next to the difficulty picker.
Gentler notifications for a calmer first run.
Friendlier word lists in the easier modes and an assorted polish pass on visuals, animation, and balance.

Beta 1.1 May 30, 2026

iPad support arrives, and every board gets dressed up.

Full iPad support

Every board, header, menu, paywall, and dialog now scales and centers properly on iPad - no more tiny floating boards or edge-to-edge sprawl.
Roomier Spades & Hearts tables so the hands are comfortable to play on bigger screens.
Full-screen arcade games scale cleanly to any iPad.

Themed boards

Chess, Sudoku, Checkers, Reversi, and Freecell variants each get a board dressed to match their own scene.
Boosted chess-piece contrast and softened busy Sudoku variant boards so the game reads at a glance.

Beta 1.0 May 29, 2026

Welcome to the box - the very first release.

What's in the box

35 cozy games, no internet needed - from classics like Solitaire, Chess, Sudoku, and Minesweeper to fresh puzzlers like Water Sort, Nuts & Bolts, Pipe Flow, and Color Flow.
Daily Puzzle - a fresh, hand-picked puzzle every day that's the same for everyone.
Game of the Week - a rotating featured pick to spotlight something new to try.
Four difficulty levels - every game spans Easy to Very Hard, with separate streaks and best scores per level.
Cozy by design - warm, hand-tuned visuals, gentle procedural music and sound, and an optional one-time Ad-Free Play unlock.