• Earlier Streak Protection Ask: The second reminder prompt now arrives at a 3-day streak (instead of 7) to help protect your momentum with optional morning and evening alerts. • Mascot Drawer Scenes: The mascot now features tailored, animated scenes for the reminder drawers and the leaderboard name prompt. • Streamlined Leaderboard Joining: The nickname entry sheet has been updated with clearer competition phrasing, better spacing, and pinned action buttons. • Quiet Streak Safeguards (iOS): Declining reminders now automatically enables subtle, provisional evening streak alerts in Notification Center without banner or sound interruptions.

Fixed the board shrinking after replying to a message mid-game.

• Pinned Action Buttons: Primary buttons in badge, reminder, and alert drawers are now fixed to the bottom for easier thumb reach. • Redesigned Leaderboards: Enjoy cleaner layouts, distinct cards for Yesterday's board, streamlined streak tiers, and better breathing room for names on smaller screens. • Reliable Rival Pops: Tapping a rival's name now properly opens the pop picker on both platforms. • Remove 5 pop restriction and fix pop limit message • Meet Pop: A native green popsicle companion joins the app, waving on the home screen, cheering on results and major milestones, guiding first-game tips, and animating across free play and your boards.

• Pops & Cheering: Send players a daily popsicle sticker (Sprinkles, Cool Thinking, Stuck the Landing, or Cherry on Top) by tapping their name on the leaderboard. • Pop Notifications & Inbox: Opt-in to push alerts for received pops and view a dedicated inbox at the top of boards to see who cheered for you. • Leaderboard Refinements: Enjoy cleaner alignment across columns, a new streak badge key link, and improved tracking that properly credits shield-saved days. • Bonus Streak Shields: Major streak milestones (day 30, 100, 200, 300, 365, and every 100 days after) now gift a bonus shield, letting you hold up to three. • Prominent Tough Rolls: Daily puzzles that are exceptionally difficult now feature a more prominent badge in the header. • Retroactive Badge Boards: Older single-solve badges automatically recover and display their original winning boards from the leaderboard. • Instant Leaderboard Swiping: Tabs now preload and switch instantly without loading spinners.

• Lock Screen Widget, Control, and Siri: See today's roll and your streak on the Lock Screen, add the Today's Roll control to Control Center or the Action button, or ask Siri "What is my streak in Wordsicle?" • Earnable App Icons: Hit 7, 30, and 90 day streaks to unlock new app icons. Your widget matches the one you pick, and the original is always one tap away. • Halloween Icon: Solve a daily between Oct 24 and Nov 1 to unlock the ghost-themed Ghost Pop icon. It comes back every year. • Milestone Streaks: Hitting a major streak day (14, 30, 50, 100 and beyond) gets a longer confetti shower of sprinkles, extra haptics, and a milestone ribbon. • Leaderboard Streak Badges: Players who hold a streak badge now wear it next to their name on the leaderboards. • Swipe Between Boards: Swipe across the leaderboard to move between Today, Yesterday, and 30 Days. • Swipeable Badges: Swipe left or right inside any badge to browse your whole collection, with a counter. • Inspect Winning Boards: Tap "See the board" on a single-solve badge to view the exact board that earned it. It's saved past your history limit and follows you through iCloud. • Points Card Moved: The scoring card now appears at the top of the screen, between the back and menu buttons, so it never covers your dice or tiles.

• Tough Roll Indicators: Home, results, and share cards now warn you when a daily puzzle is exceptionally difficult (e.g., "Tough roll" or "Only 3 boards exist"). • New "Slim Pickings" Badge: Earn this rare badge by completing any Daily Roll where the dice allow 25 or fewer possible boards. • Expanded Dictionary: Added 540 new words to the game's vocabulary (such as spam, inbox, barista, zen, and babysit) based on modern English usage. • Softer Word Chime: The ascending chime now features gentler note attacks, smoother tones, and no metallic coin rattle. • 6 New Badges: Expanded the collection with Two Scoops (a two-word crossing board), The Pint (all twelve dice in a 4x5 box), Wall to Wall (a 9-letter word), Clean Sheet (30 consecutive daily rolls without a shield), Tough Cookie (10 completed Tough rolls), and The Refreeze (starting a new 7-day streak after a true loss). • Visible Badge Progress: Unearned streak and tally badges now show progress bars and counts directly on the shelf and inside their detail cards.

Clean Score Previews: When dragging a letter onto an existing word, the floating bubble now displays just the points (e.g., +25) neatly tucked at the end of the word instead of covering up the letters.

- Pull-to-Refresh Home: Swipe down on the home screen to instantly fetch the latest standings or roll over to a new daily puzzle if midnight UTC has passed. - Refined Scrolling Header: As you scroll down your home screen, the indigo sky backdrop now smoothly holds still and fades out while the cream content sheet rides cleanly over it.

- Yesterday's Words: After a Daily Roll closes, check out a complete list of every word found by players worldwide. Your own words rank by rarity, highlighting unique finds alongside daily standouts like the most common, rarest, and highest-scoring words.

• Streamlined Word Previews: The dragging preview chip now only appears for valid words, keeping the screen clean while invalid placements still highlight in amber. • Expanded Leaderboard Cards: "Today's best" on the home card now shows the top 3 players (to clearly highlight ties) and includes the player directly ahead of you so you always have a target to beat. • Quieter Status Bar: The line above the tray now stays silent when everything is correct — leaving your score and the dice meter to do the talking — and only speaks up when there's an error. • Dedicated Free Play "New Dice" Button: Re-added a quick-access New Dice button beside Undo and Shuffle tray in Free Play mode. • Consistent Best-Word Tics: Tied longest words now consistently select the higher-scoring Scrabble letter combination, ensuring players with identical boards see the exact same best word.

- Undo & Shuffle Tray: Use the new buttons under the tray to easily step back up to 50 moves or reshuffle your remaining dice for a fresh look. - Tap-to-Place: You can now tap a die in your tray to lift it, then tap any board cell to place it (single-tap a placed die to send it back home). - Placement Guides & Word Preview: The board gently fades invalid drop zones while a die is held, and a floating chip instantly shows you the word and score before you let go. - Redesigned Status Header: Clock, score, and a new 12-pip progress meter now sit clearly above the board, accompanied by a clean roll number header (e.g., "Daily Roll · No. 60"). - Visual Polish: Scored words feature a richer, more readable green, finished boards pop with balanced rainbow hues, and Hard Mode locks feature satisfying haptic confirmation.

- Aligned Score Breakdown: Word points now use clean columns in a compact card above the board tray. - Badge Drawers: Newly earned badges appear in a bottom drawer with individual acknowledgments that require explicit action to clear. - History Backfill: Newly discovered badges (including the new It's Good football goalpost badge) automatically unlock from your saved history on launch. - Quick Word Points: Tapping your completed home card instantly opens your full score and word breakdown.

- Fixed bug with where some clients were unable to see confetti - Restart stays on one line on smaller iPhones - Every saved board now shows what each word scored

4 New Badges: Added The First Scoop, The Double Feature, The Mirror, and The Clean Sweep, expanding the collection to 22. Native Bottom Sheets: Invitations, leaderboard sign-ups, and badge details now open in refined native bottom sheets with custom artwork and a dedicated "Claim my spot" flow. Redesigned "Your Boards": Game history now features 4 clean icon-led stat cards (days played, best score, average, and best word) alongside a dedicated streak-and-shield panel. Cleaner iOS Leaderboard: Removed empty layout gaps on the iOS leaderboard when personal summaries or rivals aren't present. Pre-Validated Free Play: Free Play, re-roll, and Play Again now pre-check a valid 9×9 solution in the background with a smooth loading animation before starting the timer.

Reworked Play Screen: Enjoy a smaller 9x9 board with significantly larger, easier-to-read tiles. Clearer Controls: Time and score readouts are now clearly distinguished from tappable buttons. New Results Sheet: Detailed post-game results now slide up in a bottom sheet over the board instead of floating on top, giving you a cleaner breakdown of your score, rank, and next options. Improved Post-Game Controls: Dismissing the results sheet reveals a new stat strip and quick "Play again" and "Share" buttons right beneath your finished board.

- Updated app store screenshots

- Rivals Feature: Pin friends as rivals by opening their share links. Compare daily scores directly on your home screen and view rivals pinned at the top of the leaderboard. - Yesterday's Top Boards: Check out the Yesterday tab on the leaderboard to see the actual word layouts of the previous day's top 3 winning boards alongside your own. - Fair Leaderboards: Late solves finished after rollover still count toward your streak and personal history, but are no longer submitted to public rankings to keep leaderboards fair.

- Badge Progress Tracking: The badge sheet now highlights the unearned badge you're closest to completing, showing your exact progress (e.g., "5 of 7 days"). - Easier History Access: Added a clearer prompt and chevron to the streak line so you can easily find your stats and past 30 days of boards.

- Reduces length of share link

Smart Share Links: Shared links now open a web preview showing your result board and stats, or open directly in the app via Universal Links. Share Everywhere: Share directly from your badge cards, badge shelf, and leaderboard ranks. Clearer Board Feedback: Invalid words now highlight in amber with on-screen hints explaining why a board isn't scoring. Game History & Rewind: Tap your streak line to view 30 days of past boards, or replay any daily board for fun. Evening Streak Alerts: Get a heads-up reminder 3 hours before rollover if your streak is about to end. Timer Adjustment: On your first game, the timer won't start until you place your first die. Clearer Countdowns: Countdowns now show your local rollover time (e.g., "New roll at 8:00 PM"). Streak Loss Info: Get a clear explanation on the home screen when a streak ends and how shields work. Privacy & Support Updates: Added in-app Privacy Policy access and updated policy details. Polished Share Formatting & Copy: Refined share text details and overall text styling.

- We gave the widgets a refresh

- The home card no longer wraps your rank once it hits two digits - Now you earn a badge when you share your grid

• Tap any badge to view its full artwork, unlock rules, and earned date. • Settings now shows your local daily rollover time. • Updated reminder copy to better reflect your scheduled notification time.

17 Badges Across 3 Categories: Expanded from 6 to 17 badges grouped by The Board (board layout achievements), The Streak (consecutive play up to 1 year + Hard Mode), and The Tally (total solves & top 10 finishes over time). Renamed & Redrawn Badges: Updated 5 badge names (The Full Week, The Monthlong, Close Call, etc.) and refreshed artwork for Close Call (formerly Streak Shield). iCloud Sync & History Recovery: Your play history, badges, and streaks now automatically back up to iCloud and restore across reinstalls or new devices. Launch & Performance Fixes: Resolved launch crashes when opening via morning reminders and reduced cold-start load times.

Streak Badges & New Art: Added 3 streak badges (Seven Straight, The Thirty, Streak Shield) with history backfills and brand-new artwork for all 6 badges. Badge Celebrations: Earned badges now pop up on a dedicated celebration card. Fewer Post-Game Prompts: Max 1 prompt per finished daily solve to prevent pop-up clutter. Next Roll Countdown: Daily solves now show a live countdown to the next UTC roll. Live Leaderboards: Restored real-time leaderboards. Bug Fixes: Synced Hard Mode settings toggle, fixed home screen corner graphics, and added explicit Streak Shield win-card alerts.