Fewer interruptions. Ads now show less often — at most every fourth game, never twice inside a minute and a half, and never in your first few games.

FIVE NEW GAMES — 20 in the arcade now, all free. FIELD GOALS — pull back to kick. Distance is power, angle is aim. Read the wind. 60 seconds. CLOSEST TO THE PIN — nine wild holes, one shot each: water, lava, floating greens. Fewest total feet wins. DARTS — the board spins. Let go as a big number comes round. 60 seconds. PINBALL — a full space table. Chain ramps and orbits for big multipliers. 60 seconds. TACWONDO — tacos fly in on three lanes. Punch high, kick mid, sweep low, and hit them up close for double. LASER LIMBO, REBUILT — run down a neon city street from behind her: limbo the lasers, jump the pits, dodge the walls, swing on vines, and ride a full loop-the-loop. Also: a new app icon, Pinball flippers fixed on iOS 27, and Basketball shots can rim out now. Echo Match has retired.

Leaderboards for Top Shelf, Long Drive, Echo Match and Counter Punch now work, plus the new All Games board. They were created but never went live, so they showed as empty. Your existing best scores post to them automatically the next time you play.

NEW GAME — TOP SHELF. Hockey, 60 seconds. Drag the aim pad below the net to place your shot, hold to charge, let go to shoot. The goalie reads where you settle, so sit on a spot and she starts cheating toward it. Off the inside of the post is a goal. A NEW ARCADE. All 16 games are painted tiles on one grid, with the Daily and your streak at the top. ALL GAMES — a new leaderboard that adds up your best score in every game and ranks the total. RANKS. Leaderboards now open inside Zumble instead of sending you out to Game Center. The Daily Challenge is three games instead of five — about two minutes a day. Orbit Dodge's black hole is painted now, and it turns.

Three new games in the arcade: COUNTER PUNCH — she loads one glove before she throws it. That's your only warning. Get out of the way clean and you've earned a counter. LONG DRIVE — five swings, three taps each. Set your clubhead speed, then catch the ball on the right part of the face. Miss the middle and it peels off the grid. ECHO MATCH — the phone buzzes a rhythm you can feel but not see. Tap it back. Get it right and the next one gets longer. Every game now has its own Game Center leaderboard, and your existing best scores post to them automatically the next time you play. Also: the app stays in portrait, and a black screen in Tennis is fixed. Her golf swing no longer hitches at the top of the backswing.

LEADERBOARDS ARE LIVE. Every game now has its own board, plus one for the Daily Challenge. Your best runs have been saved all along — they'll start showing up ranked against everyone else's. TENNIS IS A REAL MATCH. It used to be unwinnable by design: she returned everything and the whistle blew at sixty seconds. Now there's no clock, you get three lives, and TWENTY CLEAN RETURNS IN A ROW wins you a point — the twentieth is a fireball she can't reach, in slow motion. The ball speeds up every four returns you make, for as long as you last. BASKETBALL HAS A REAL HOOP. Drawn backboard, rim and net instead of a bar and a triangle. A make drops through the net now rather than vanishing at the rim, and a brick no longer holds up your next shot while it falls. SHARPSHOOTER'S BALLOONS FLY STRAIGHT. They used to speed up and slow down as they crossed, which made a well-led shot miss for reasons you couldn't see. They drift at a constant pace now. HOW TO PLAY FOLDS AWAY. The first time you open a game you get the full rules. After that its card opens with them tucked behind a tap, so you're one press from Start on a game you already know. Twelve games, still all free.

The whole arcade is painted now. Every game was stick figures on a gradient. They're places you can recognize: courts, courses, forests, a brick shaft, deep space. Nothing about how any of them plays has changed — the art sits behind the game, never in it. TENNIS — rebuilt from a flat overhead rectangle into a real court, angled away from you with the net up the screen. Three venues: a club, a mountain lodge, a stadium. Both players are drawn and animated, and the ball flies an arc with a shadow that tightens as it drops. LASER LIMBO — a rebuilt runner. Jump the high beams, limbo the cyan ones, and pull further down to slide under the low ones. SHARPSHOOTER — a drawn archer who nocks, draws and looses, standing in one of five painted places instead of on a white line. BASKETBALL — five painted courts, rolled one per round: a neon arena, a city rooftop at night, a beach at sunset, a park, and a school gym. TIMBER CHOPPER — a real tree cut ring to ring, a chopper who swings, and five forest clearings. WALL JUMP — a brick shaft to climb, a real climber on the wall, and three hazards instead of one: iron spikes, a snapped girder, broken masonry. DISC GOLF — a thrower who winds up, a green fairway, a chained basket, and a goat on the apron that will eat your disc. DODGE — a turtle who ducks into his shell. ORBIT DODGE — real asteroids against real space. NO MORE INTRO. The app used to open on a four-step slideshow before it let you play. It doesn't any more — first launch drops you straight onto the game grid, and each game explains itself right before you start it. Runner has been retired. Eleven stickman games plus the buzz game, still all free. BASKETBALL SHOOTERS — the generic white player is gone. Two drawn characters now take the shot, one picked at random each round, and the defender contesting it is a robot. Nothing about the shooting itself changed. JETPACK JAM SCORES CLEAN FLYING — one point an obstacle, multiplied by your longest clean streak. Clearing a 26th obstacle in a row reprices the 25 before it. Surviving a long time no longer scores by itself.

Three games got sharper. SHARPSHOOTER — ten hits in a row arms a triple shot: for seven seconds every release looses three arrows in a tight fan. The wings can't break your streak, so a volley is free to be greedy. DISC GOLF — a proper course. A thrower who winds up with the disc, a green fairway, a real chained basket, and a shadow that tells you how high you are. The throw curves the way it should now: pull back to one side and the disc goes out the other, then bends back across the fairway — and the wider you aim, the wider the arc, so you can shape a throw around a tree instead of over it. A goat wanders the apron in front of some pins. It will eat your disc. BASKETBALL — the last five seconds count down on screen, and a shot released before the buzzer plays all the way out; you get to watch it drop. Ten makes in a row loads five money balls, gold and worth double. The backboard is taller, so bank shots bank.

Zumble is an arcade now. All 13 games are free and one tap from the home screen — no unlock, nothing hidden. The buzz game joins them as a 60-second round: name as many buzzes as you can, wrong answers cost you. Six games are a round against the clock. The other seven are endless: three lives, no timer, and they keep getting harder for as long as you last. They end when you run out, not when a clock does. Orbit Dodge now circles a black hole, and your orbit is the event horizon — anything that crosses it is going in, pulled off its course, drawn out and torn apart. The Daily Challenge is five games instead of ten buzzes, drawn fresh each day and identical for every player worldwide. Every game keeps a score worth chasing, with its own leaderboard.

Stability improvements under the hood. Thanks for playing Zumble!