Wick got a big upgrade. SMARTER ANSWERS Wick now answers every question with a smarter AI that thinks before it replies and pictures the everyday version of the word. He also remembers what you already asked this round, so his answers stay consistent. Common questions about the daily word are ready before you even open the app, and everyone gets the same answer to the same question. A NEW LOOK Wick has six faces now: sly when you're cold, flustered when you're close, shocked when you solve it, and more. Watch him show them all off on the home screen. 100% FREE No coins, no shop, no in-app purchases, no ads. You get three free hints every day, and asking Wick is always free. RACE LIVE Race a friend is now live: send an invite link or code and race the same word at the same time. Old race links still open as a normal round. ALSO NEW Bigger, easier-to-tap home screen on iPad Better warmth for plurals, so "swings" now counts like "swing" Lots of small fixes and polish

New in 3.6: - Tutorial with Wick. New players learn by playing: guess a word, get warmer, ask a yes or no question, use a hint, and find the secret animal. Replay it anytime from Settings. - Today's race board. See where you rank against everyone who solved today's word. Fewest guesses wins, and ties go to the fastest time. You choose whether to submit. - Weekly stats. See the top guesses and the most asked questions from all players this week. - Race alerts. Turn on alerts to hear when someone is waiting for a live race. - A cleaner end screen, with three ways to share: your result, your map, or a replay video. - A prettier map of your hunt, with a glowing trail of your closest guesses.

Wick dances. Live races now have their own music, made just for Wick: a chill loop, a build, and a big drop for the last minute. Wick moves to the beat, with a hop on every beat and a jump and spin when the drop hits. Race alerts. Turn them on in Settings to get a push when someone is waiting for a live race, when the race queue is busy, or when an unusually large crowd is playing. You are never told about your own wait. Boiling now shakes. When a guess is boiling, Wick shakes hard. Smarter reminders. Daily reminders skip the days you have already solved and name the puzzle number. After your first daily solve, Wick offers to remind you once. Share a challenge. A solved daily replay ends with “Can you beat 14? Play free at guesswick.com”.

Share your solve as a video Tap Share replay after any round and Wick walks the board of your guesses, tile by tile, from your coldest guess to the answer. Every tile shows the word you tried and how close it was. The questions you asked Wick appear in his speech bubble with his answer. Long rounds speed up so the video always lands between 30 and 60 seconds. It saves straight to Photos, ready for TikTok, Reels or Shorts. No spoilers on the daily A daily replay never shows the day’s word. The solved tile gets a checkmark, and your ten closest guesses show their rank with the word hidden, so you can post it the same day. Practice replays show everything, including the answer. Play in your language Play in Spanish, French, Italian, German or Simplified Chinese. The daily puzzle, practice rounds and races all work in your language, and meanings are shown in it too. Race across languages Race a friend who plays in a different language. You both hunt the same word, each in your own language, and the first to solve it wins. The race pool now has 504 words in six languages. Also New app icon: Wick with sparks. Wick on the web now moves by mood, the same as on iPhone. Small fixes to Quick Match and the Race hub.

Racing is now front and center. Race a friend: finish the daily, send a link, and your friend races a replay of your run, move by move. They can play right in their browser, no download needed. Race someone live now starts on a shared clock, so players who show up a minute apart race each other instead of waiting alone. Three free hints every day. No coins needed. Dare has been retired to make room. Thanks to everyone who played it! A cleaner home screen with Daily, Race and Practice up top. Thanks for playing. If Wick has earned a spot on your home screen, a rating really helps.

Race a friend, without either of you waiting around. Ghost Race. Play the daily, then send a friend a link. They race your run on the same word — every guess and question replaying beside theirs in real time, so it feels like you're both at the board even though you're hours apart. You see how far along they were and how warm they got. You never see their words. Beat their time, then send it back. The Reveal. Solve the word and Hunch draws you a map of the hunt. Every guess plotted by how close it came in meaning, with the answer at the center and your near-misses clustered around it — so you can finally see why "river" was warm and "water" wasn't. Share it without spoiling the word. Warmer, truer scoring. Race and Dare rounds now score more accurately than ever. Some words were reading colder than they deserved; that's fixed, and closeness lines up with what you'd expect. The screen warms with you. Home now carries the temperature of the round you're in — cool while you're circling, golden as you close in, green when you land it. A word check on Dares. Set a Dare and Hunch makes sure the word can actually carry a round before your friend ever sees it. No more sending a word that reads Freezing no matter what they guess. Plus a tidier board, quicker starter questions, and the usual polish. Can you beat your friend's ghost?

Playing a friend is finally as easy as sending a link. Race & Dare invites, reinvented: • Share a link — your friend taps it and drops straight into the match. No codes to read out or type in. • Or scan a QR code to play someone sitting right next to you. • Rematch with a single tap when the round ends. A quick refresher on the two ways to duel: • Race — you both warm up to the same hidden word, and the first to solve it wins. • Dare — you pick a secret word and watch a friend race to guess it, live. Live multiplayer now speaks your language, fully translated into Spanish, French, Italian, and German. Plus polish and reliability improvements throughout. As always, the daily puzzle stays 100% on your device — no account, no tracking, no internet required.

Wick 3.0 — now you can duel. The daily word game you know just got a rival. Introducing live, real-time multiplayer — no account, no sign-up, just a short code. RACE Wick picks a secret word and you both race to it at the same time. Watch your opponent heat up in real time, then compare head-to-head at the finish. Play a friend with a code, or get matched for a quick game. DARE You choose the word and dare a friend to crack it. Share a code, then spectate live as they warm up, cool down, and close in — sweating every guess. Both modes are completely account-free. Duels run in real time, so you'll need a connection — but the daily still plays fully on your device, offline and private, exactly like always. Also in this update: - Wick the Keeper got a little wiser: when a question genuinely has no answer, he'll now honestly say "I don't know" (and tell you why) instead of guessing. - Duels now have the same satisfying sounds and haptics as the daily board — every guess rings warmer or colder as you climb. - A cleaner, more colorful duel setup, plus fixes and polish throughout. Thanks for playing. Find today's word — then go beat a friend to tomorrow's.

Wick 2.1 is all about feel and finish. Sound and haptics, together at last. Every guess now has a voice — a warm little chime that climbs as you get closer, a celebratory flourish when you solve, and a bright tick the instant you beat your best guess yet. We also rebuilt the haptics from the ground up, so the taps are richer and scale with just how warm you are. Prefer to play in silence? New Sound and Haptics toggles in Settings put you fully in control, and sound always respects your ringer switch. A sharper Keeper. Wick now answers more of your questions with rock-solid consistency. We taught the Keeper to reason about things like sounds and smells directly, so the trickier questions get steadier, smarter answers — the same on every device. Little surprises. There are a few new secrets tucked away in Wick for the curious to stumble onto. And Wick now dresses for the occasion, with seasonal looks that turn up around the holidays. Polish throughout. Wick keeps his replies clean and to the point, alongside assorted refinements across the app. As always: no accounts, no tracking, fully on-device and offline. Just you, a word, and a hunch. Thanks for playing Wick. If it's brightening your day, a quick rating genuinely helps a small app like this.

Wick 2.0 — our biggest update yet. (New name, same game: Hunch is now Wick, after the little flame who guards your word.) TALK TO WICK Wick is more than a scorekeeper now. Ask him anything — he remembers your conversation, answers with personality, and keeps your secret word safe. And asking questions is now free. Only hints cost coins. FRIEND DUELS Challenge anyone, no account needed: Race — Wick picks a secret word, you both play it blind, then compare head-to-head. Dare — you pick the word and a friend tries to guess it. Share a short code, they play the exact same puzzle, and you settle it. Entirely offline. WICK'S WARDROBE Spend your coins on hats, glasses, bow ties, silly tongues, googly eyes and more. Wick wears them everywhere — even while answering your questions. Purely for fun. A FRESH HOME SCREEN A brand-new menu puts every mode one clear tap away — today's puzzle, duels, past puzzles, and practice — over a gentle hot-and-cold animated backdrop. STILL 100% ON-DEVICE No accounts, no tracking, no internet needed. The AI Keeper, the scoring, and your duels all run privately on your device, in five languages. Thanks for playing — we'd love to hear what you think.

Hunch is now Wick. Same game you know, with a new name. The daily word game where you guess by meaning — not spelling — is now called Wick, after the on-device Keeper who guards each word. Everything carries over: your streak, your stats, and your coins are exactly where you left them. New — Past Puzzles Missed a day? You can now play any past daily from the archive. Open the menu, tap "Past puzzles," and pick a day. Solved days are checked off; the rest are waiting. Replays are just for fun — they never touch your streak or coins, so today's puzzle is still the one that counts. Sharper offline dictionaries French, Italian, German, and Spanish now include their own built-in word dictionaries, so meaning-based scoring is more accurate and works fully offline — on a plane, on the subway, anywhere with no signal. Download a language once and it's yours. Smarter Wick The Keeper answers more reliably about what a word is made of, whether it's bigger than a car, found in nature, or gives off light — with fewer odd slips. As always: one fresh word a day, no accounts, no ads, no tracking. Everything runs on your iPhone.

Hunch now speaks your language. The big one: Hunch is playable in five languages — English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German. Pick your language and the whole game follows: the daily word, your guesses, your hints, and Wick himself all speak it. Switch anytime. Learn a language while you play. Set the game in one language and your guesses in another, and Hunch shows each word both ways — a quiet way to pick up French, Italian, German, or Spanish while you hunt for the word. Smarter Wick. The Keeper is more accurate than ever about the word he's guarding. Ask whether it's made of metal, bigger than a car, found in nature, or gives off light, and he gives straight, reliable answers on far more words — with fewer odd slips. Sort your round. Flip your guesses between most recent and hottest so far, so your best leads are always easy to find. A share card in your language. Show off your solve with flags, your streak, and the day's grid, now localized wherever you play. As always, Hunch runs entirely on your iPhone. No account, no ads, and nothing you type ever leaves your phone. The daily puzzle is always free. Thanks for playing. If Hunch has earned a spot on your home screen, a rating really helps.

Hunch 1.7 is our biggest update yet — a rebuilt play surface, a much smarter Wick, and a whole new way to learn. ONE SCREEN, TWO MOVES Guessing and asking now live together. Type a word to guess, or add a "?" to ask Wick a yes/no question — your guesses and his answers flow in a single feed, the way the game was always meant to play. No more separate screens. MEET LEARN MODE Flip it on in Settings and every guess shows its translation — apple → manzana — so you pick up vocabulary as you play. Solve or give up and the answer is revealed in both languages. A gentle way to learn Spanish (or English) one word at a time. A MUCH SMARTER WICK We taught Wick the truth about hundreds of words, so his yes/no answers are far more accurate. Sizes, materials, sounds, ages, and more are now spot-on instead of guessed — and he stays reliable whether or not your device has Apple Intelligence. BETTER IN SPANISH Wick now answers your typed questions offline in Spanish too, and the entire accuracy upgrade works in Spanish rounds. CLEANER AND CALMER A tidier home screen, bigger and clearer text, friendlier feedback ("Closest yet!" instead of jargon), and suggested questions tucked away until you want them. Still the Hunch you love: one word a day, fully on-device, no accounts, no tracking. Thank you for playing — we read every review.

Hunch now speaks Spanish! The big one this update: you can play Hunch entirely in Spanish — the daily word, your guesses, the hints, and Wick himself. Switch anytime from the new Settings screen (tap the gear up top). Everyone still gets the same word each day in whichever language you play, so an English "ocean" and a Spanish "océano" are the exact same puzzle. Now on many more iPhones. Hunch used to require the newest iOS. Not anymore — it runs on far more iPhones now, so you can play on older devices too. Wick still uses Apple Intelligence where it's available, and answers offline everywhere else. A full year of daily words. Hundreds of fresh secret words are in the rotation now, so the daily stays surprising for a long time to come. Guess in either language. Playing in Spanish but the English word came to mind first? Type it anyway — Hunch knows common words in both languages and scores them the same. Plus polish throughout: a cleaner Settings screen, a friendlier "did you mean?", steadier scoring, and lots of little fixes. Thanks for playing. If Hunch has earned a spot on your home screen, a rating really helps.

Wick now works on every iPhone. The headline this update: you no longer need Apple Intelligence to ask Wick your own questions. Type something like "Is it alive?" or "Bigger than a car?" on any iPhone and he answers on the spot, fully offline. On phones with Apple Intelligence he still replies in his own words. On everything else he handles the essentials, like what kind of thing it is, how big it is, and whether it is alive. As always, nothing you type leaves your phone. New look. A fresh app icon and a cleaner target theme that heats up from cold blue to red as you close in on the word. Smarter Wick. He sticks to the truth about the word more reliably, he is harder to trick into revealing it, and he now knows about a lot more words, so you get straight answers on more days. Plus smaller fixes and polish throughout. Thanks for playing Hunch. If it has earned a spot on your home screen, leaving a rating really helps.

Meet Wick — and a big update to how you play. - Ask the Keeper, now on every iPhone. Tap the new suggested questions to get instant, spoiler-free answers — no Apple Intelligence required. (Type your own questions on supported devices.) - Smarter, more accurate Keeper. Answers are sharper and more reliable, especially for tricky abstract words. - Warmer or colder, at a glance. Every guess now shows how much closer (or further) you got than your best — chase the heat. - Wick comes alive. He cheers you on as you close in, reacts when you tap him, and throws confetti when you solve it. - Friendlier guessing. "running," "ran," and "run" all count the same now, and we'll suggest a word if you make a typo. - More daily words and better variety, so the puzzle stays fresh. - A brand-new app icon. - Polished for iPad and lots of little fixes. There may be a hidden surprise or two as well. Happy guessing!

Hunch 1.3 makes every round smarter and smoother: Bigger word pool — lots of fresh secret words to guess, with the most obscure ones cleared out so every puzzle feels fair. Smarter hints — hints now draw from the secret word's true "meaning neighborhood" and ease you in gradually, always moving you to a closer word and never repeating a spot you've already hit. A sharper Keeper — the on-device Keeper gives more accurate, more in-character answers to your questions while staying just as tight-lipped about the secret. Never get stuck — if the Keeper doesn't respond, just tap Retry (it also quietly retries on its own behind the scenes). Tighter secret-keeping — the Keeper now catches sneaky word forms like "mirroring" for "mirror," so the answer never slips out. Thanks for playing! Have feedback or an idea? We'd love to hear it.

Say hello to Wick! The Keeper now has a name and a lot more personality — introducing himself, reacting to how close you are, and flickering to life on every device. • Meet Wick, your flame-spirit Keeper, with new expressions and animations • Cleaner, less cluttered game screen • Wick's clues are now trickier — no more easy giveaways • Small visual polish throughout • Wick now properly respects the Reduce Motion accessibility setting