The computer players now play like people who know the game. A REAL DIFFICULTY LADDER Hard used to play almost exactly like Normal, and Cheater barely cheated. Now each level beats the one below it, tested over thousands of games. • Hard counts cards. It tracks what's still out and who has run out of a suit, flushes out the Queen of Spades, and sheds its high cards when it's safe to. • Cheater plays the rest of the round out against every hand before it chooses a card. • The hint uses Hard, so its advice got better too. SMARTER PLAY AT EVERY LEVEL • Passing: the computer players keep their low hearts and the Ace of Hearts, and pass the cards that actually cause trouble. • Reading the scoreboard: they won't dump the Queen on someone when it ends a game they'd lose. • No more leading the Queen of Spades, or leading spades while holding her short. • Shooting the moon: they only try it with a hand built for it, and only block yours when you're really going for it. • Jack of Diamonds: they hang on to the Jack instead of throwing it away, and take a trick with it in when nothing can go wrong. WHAT EACH SETTING DOES Every rule in Settings › Rules and Gameplay now has an ⓘ that explains it: shooting the moon, passing, the target score, the Queen breaking hearts, and each difficulty, including exactly what Cheater can see. FIXED • The first sound of a session could stop music you were playing in another app. It now plays alongside it. • The spade and club pips on the Icon deck sat off-centre. They're centred now. Still no ads, no subscription, no account, and no servers.

New game now deals the moment you tap it. A FASTER FIRST GAME The first game of a session used to sit for a second or two after you tapped New game, while the table was put together behind the menu. It is built now while you are still reading the menu, so the first game of the day starts as quickly as the second. FIXED The deal used to run before the table was on screen. You arrived at a hand that was already dealt, with the dealing sound still playing over the top of it. The cards go out now once there is a table to deal them onto. HOW TO PLAY The rules pages, in Settings › Rules and Gameplay › How to play, were written in a shorthand that only helps someone who already knows the game. • "Pass your danger" now says what to pass and why: cards that might stick you with the Queen, such as high spades. • The scoring page gives you both numbers instead of leaving the Queen's as an arithmetic puzzle. • The opening page draws the table you will actually be sitting at, with you at the bottom and the turn moving clockwise, rather than four faces in a row. • The trick is laid out in the diamond the felt puts it in, instead of in the order the cards happened to be played, and the card that takes it is marked. • The frame around all of it is brass. It was the same red the table uses for points against you, so a page of instructions was outlined like a warning about itself. Still no ads, no subscription, no account, and no servers.

Every seat now shows its score, right on the table. SCORES ON THE TABLE You no longer have to open the score sheet to find out who is about to lose. • Each seat's plate carries its match score, with the points it has taken this round in red beside it. 23 + 5 reads as "on 23, and five more so far." • A ring around that score fills as the seat closes on the target, and changes colour as it gets there. It means the same thing whether you play to 50 or to 150. • A ring also marks whose turn it is, so it is easier to see who the table is waiting for. STATISTICS • Finishes: how often you come 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, not just how often you win. Ties share the better position, the same way the game scores them. FIXED • Asking for a hint at the wrong moment could crash the game — after the last trick of a round had been collected, or once the game was over — and it charged you the 10 coins before it did. Hints are now offered only on your turn to play a card, which is the one moment the advice is about the hand in front of you. • A card played from your hand jumped on top of its neighbours for a frame before it moved, which read as a hop rather than as a card being drawn out of a fan. It now slides out from exactly where it was sitting, and the gap closes behind it once it lands. • The spade on the Queen marker is a properly drawn outline now, instead of a white copy behind a black one that came out fat at the point and thin at the waist. FAMILY SHARING Unlimited Play now covers your household — one purchase, everyone in the family. Still no ads, no subscription, no account, and no servers.

A bug fix release DISPLAY ZOOM If your iPhone is set to Display Zoom (Settings › Display & Brightness › Display Zoom › Larger Text) it caused the pass dialog to not render correctly and the cards to be too large. • The whole table is now drawn to fit the screen it is on, at any size. • The pass panel sits above your hand and below the buttons, wherever it has to go to do both. • Played cards no longer land on top of the seat badges. • The card fan on the home screen no longer runs off both edges. The same fixes land on an iPhone SE3, which was two cards short of the same problem without any setting changed. ALSO FIXED • Light Mode: the labels along the bottom bar were white on a pale bar. They are readable again. • When only one or two of your cards were legal, they were spread so far from the rest that they stopped reading as part of your hand. Worst in landscape, where the gap ran to more than a card and a half. • Tapping a card into a pass slot and straight back out could leave it stranded or shrunk. • Game Center: you no longer appear on Moons Shot with a score of zero before you have shot one. Thanks to the player who reported the pass screen. If something looks wrong on your device, please write in — it is the fastest way for it to get fixed. Still no ads, no subscription, no account, and no servers.

THE TABLE • Improved table • New Cosmetics: 6 card faces, 32 backs, and 4 felts. All free, and all switchable in the middle of a hand. NEW DURING A HAND • Still out there (20 coins): every card nobody has played that is not in your hand, grouped by suit. It tells you what is left, never who holds it. • Show last trick, free and any time, from the menu or by tapping the empty middle of the table. • Play log: every trick of the current hand, with who led it and who took it. • Undo (15 coins) now rewinds to your last play of the hand instead of only your last card, so you can re-decide after watching the trick play out. GAME CENTER • Four leaderboards: games played, games won, moons shot, and longest win streak. • No sign-in prompt, ever. If you are not signed in to Game Center at the system level, nothing is posted and nothing is asked. • A win reaches the leaderboard only if it was unaided (no hint, no undo) and honest (no Cheater opponent). Your own statistics still count every win you get. SOUND • Card sound effects and a music bed, with separate switches for sound, music, and haptics. • If you played earlier versions, all of it starts off. You did not ask the app to start making noise, so turn on what you want in Settings. Music is off for everyone by default. COINS • Unlimited Play now covers powerups. Hints, undo, and Still out there are all free once you own it. ALSO • The rules, as a carousel, in Settings whenever you want them. • Smoother card animation on ProMotion displays, and the play speed setting now applies to every animation rather than some of them. Still no ads, no subscription, no account, and no servers.