THE DECKS WERE REBUILT Ten decks became seven. That was not a taste call. Every deck was measured on one number — how many of its questions point at the people in the room — because that is what makes a question land at a party instead of in a diary. Two of them turned out to be the same deck in a different font, so they became one. Nothing was lost on the way: every deck that closed had its writing absorbed by the deck that took its place. A later sweep found the same question sitting in as many as three decks at once, and one deck asking itself the same thing three times over. Those are the only questions that are actually gone. RANK THE CIRCLE A new deck. Rank everyone here, out loud. Money, who survives a crisis, who ages best, who’d make the best partner. Say the order, then defend it. THE QUESTIONS NOW SPEAK 35 LANGUAGES Not translated. Rewritten. A question that lands in English can go limp word for word in Turkish, so each one was rebuilt in its own language to do the same job to the same table. THE QUESTION CAN MATCH WHO IS BEING ASKED Each player can say which word the table uses about them, and who their questions point at, and the wording follows. Both are optional, and skipping them gives you more questions, not fewer. The screen that asks never names a category. It asks about the game, in the first person, because the person holding the phone is the subject. PRESS, AND WHAT WE DO NOT KEEP The chips on that screen now press like everything else in the app — they give under your thumb and answer on the way down, not after. And what you choose there no longer reaches our usage analytics at all. It was reconstructible from where your thumb landed. It is not any more.

NOTHING NEW TO SEE, AND THAT IS THE POINT This release adds no features. Under the hood it turns on a masked recording of how the app is used — where taps land, which screen follows which — so we can find the rough edges without asking anyone to file a bug report. What a recording keeps is the shape of a session. What it does not keep is anything legible: every question card, every player name and every picture is covered over on your phone, inside the recorder, before a frame is ever stored. The console and network channels are switched off for the same reason. Our privacy policy says all of this in plain words, in every language the app speaks, and it said it before a single frame was recorded.

THE FACE YOU PICK STAYS SHARP Tap a face in the character picker and it used to go soft for about a second — the eyes and the smile blurred while the tile grew, then everything snapped crisp again in a single frame. The selection animation itself was the cause, and it has been rebuilt. None of the motion changed: the same grow, the same spring, the same lift. The face just stays sharp the whole way through now. EVERY DECK YOU OWN OPENS THE SAME WAY The free deck always opened on its own name and its own emblem, with a beat before you begin. A deck you had paid for skipped all of that and dropped you straight into the first turn — so the one deck you actually bought was the only one that started with no ceremony at all. Now every deck you own opens the way the free one does.

ONE WORD, EVERYWHERE The app called them decks on one screen and packs on the next. They are decks now, in all 35 languages. RUSSIAN NOW SPEAKS TO EVERYONE 448 Russian questions were written as if the person in the hot seat were a man. They have been rewritten so the card reads the same however it lands on you — no slashes, no bracketed endings, nothing you have to decode out loud. ONE QUESTION REPLACED A Deep & Raw question asked almost exactly what a free First Light question already asks. You should not be sold something you already have. It has been replaced with a new one. ALSO Fewer ways for a price or a purchase to go quiet on you, and a lot more of the app watched for problems that used to pass unnoticed.

SHARPER IN YOUR LANGUAGE Native speakers read the questions out loud for the first time, and rewrote the ones that failed. Some were correct on paper and impossible to say at a table. A few quietly asked something other than what the English asks. Arabic now lays out right to left from the first launch, the way it always should have. And a pack you own but have never opened no longer claims it isn't out yet when you're offline. It tells you the truth, and offers to try again.

YOUR LANGUAGE All 690 questions now exist in 35 languages. The app follows your phone's language the first time you open it, and you can change it any time in Settings. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE Long names on the wheel stay whole and readable instead of shrinking everyone else's. Prices always show in your own store's currency.

SHARPER IN MOTION The question card and its text used to go soft for a moment as a card was dealt away. They now stay pin-sharp the whole way off the screen. Plus reliability work on how the app starts up, so it opens cleanly every time.

ALL PACKS FOREVER One payment of $19.99 unlocks every deck we have made and every deck we ever make. No subscription, nothing to cancel, nothing that expires. If you would rather pay yearly instead, All-Access Yearly is $29.99 a year for the full library plus every future drop. SINGLE DECKS ARE NOW $3.99 Down from $4.99, still a one-time purchase you own forever. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE The app now shows its full name on your Home Screen, and the whole experience runs smoother and steadier.