• Easier to hit the right point on a phone. On the bigger boards (Go 13×13 and 19×19, and Gomoku), the first tap shows a see-through stone with its row and column lit up. Tap it again to play, or tap somewhere else to move it. • Pinch the 2D board to zoom in, up to 3×. Drag to look around, and tap the magnifier to zoom back out. • The start screen's board turns over the way you flick it, from wherever you've turned it, and stays where you turn it. • Go problems now say why a point can't be played, instead of ignoring the tap.

• A new start screen: the app icon comes alive. Tap the dragon or the snake for Go, the tomato for Gomoku, the tile for Mahjong, or flick the board over for chess; it dips into the pond as it turns. It wears the board you pick in a game. • Go: watch five famous games, from Shusaku's ear-reddening game to AlphaGo, with a win-rate graph, and solve 24 life-and-death problems from the Yuan-dynasty classic Xuanxuan Qijing. • Mahjong: a self-drawn win now shows the draw before the hand goes down.

• Mahjong for four, simple Chinese rules: three computer levels, a coach, and an automatic table that shuffles and builds the walls. Play online with up to four friends. • Chess: pebble-and-shell pieces, three computer levels and a coach that spots mates and free pieces. • 3D boards beside the 2D one. In Go every group is a black snake or a white dragon that grows with it; capture a big one and slay it. Gomoku grows a vegetable garden. Chess is carved in 3D. • Six boards, each with its own sound: stone, wood, water, steel, sky and garden. • Win rates: a live bar during play, and a graph after the game that finds the blunders and the turning point. • Replay any finished game, move by move. • Online rooms for all four games, shared with the browser version at lifegameproject.com.