Placements Finish in the top ten of any board and the game now says so - which place you took, how far off first you were, and what it pays. Almost nobody is ever first at something; a lot more people can reach a top ten. Thirty missions Up from ten, so there is something left to chase. Three dot skins are now earned only - a fifty chain, lock fifty, twenty-five Iron Man runs. No amount of gold will buy them. A place to start New players now get a card that says what the game actually is before anything else asks for their attention. Also - Iron Man's card finally looks like the button it always was - The memory modes no longer flash NICE at you when you have just lost - Leaderboards hold together properly: scores finished offline are queued and filed later, and the daily event now runs on the same clock for everyone on Earth - Decoy has been retired

IRON MAN OPENS FROM THE START The daily event no longer makes you wait. One life, one shot, and a mode that rotates every day — the same run for every player on Earth. PLACES, NOT JUST CROWNS Land anywhere in the top ten and the game says so: what place you earned, how far off first you were, and what it pays. Almost nobody is ever number one. Nearly anyone can be ranked. KNOW WHERE YOU STAND Every mode card now shows your own rank on that board, not just the name of whoever is beating you. Locked modes tell you what they are and how close you are to opening them. INSIGHTS A new screen under Settings: which modes you actually play, how far you get, and how long a run lasts. It never leaves your device. FIXES • The memory modes no longer flash NICE at you when you have just lost • Leaderboards are steadier — a score that fails to send is retried, and the daily now runs on one shared day boundary worldwide • Reduce Motion now turns off confetti as well as screen shake • The continue price is readable instead of looking like a second level number

See where you stand against the crown. Finish an Iron Man run and it now tells you how you did against the day's best — whether you took it, or exactly how far short you fell and who is holding it. Take the crown and you will know about it. Fixes. • Iron Man's briefing said "three lives" directly under a paragraph promising one. • The crown could take a few launches to appear after a winning run; it updates as soon as the score lands. • Choosing Relaxed memory speed was quietly keeping every score off the leaderboards, including modes with no memory board at all. • The daily mode could land a day out around a daylight-saving change, putting players on different runs on the same date. • The daily crown no longer says the throne is vacant when Game Center is switched off. • The daily purse is a little lighter: 8,000 gold for first.

IRON MAN — a new daily event. One life. One miss ends the run, however far you got. No checkpoint, no continues. A different mode every day, the same for every player on earth. The top ten each day share the gold, and whoever leads holds the crown on the menu until somebody takes it. SLEIGHT — a new mode. A key goes under one card, they all turn face down, and then they shuffle. Follow it. Not memory — tracking, which is a different thing entirely. MEMORY SPEED Relaxed, Normal or Sharp. How long the tiles stay lit is now your choice rather than ours. ALSO • Eight new dot skins, including four that cost more than the rest of the shop put together • Colour schemes reorganised, with a Gameday section • Memory games unlock much earlier — Recall is now your third mode • Sift marks its greens and reds with shapes as well as colour • Records set before leaderboards existed now appear on the boards • Fixed impacts being clipped mid-air, and a shuffle that was too fast to follow

Leaderboards are here — and there's one for every mode. • 20 global boards: one for each of the 18 mini-games, plus Gauntlet and the Daily Challenge. Each has a Today and an All-time cut, so there are lots of ways to be first. • See who holds each mode right on the game-select screen. Being number one should be something other people can see. • Your own rank is pinned to the board, so you can always find yourself without scrolling. The memory games now unlock far earlier. Recall is your third mode instead of your seventh, and the whole memory family — plus Reel — arrives in the first stretch rather than hours in. They're too good to be hidden. Long streaks sound better. The rising tone used to stop climbing and repeat one note; now it opens into a figure that keeps building. Also: 22 new colour schemes in the shop. Country flags and team colours that take over the whole screen instead of just tinting it. No account, no sign-up. Leaderboards use the Game Center already on your iPhone.

REEL — a new mini-game. Hold to lift, let go to drop, and keep the catch inside your bar until the meter fills. FAIRER TAPS — a tap is now judged against the frame you actually reacted to, not where the dot had moved on to. If you were on the target, it counts. GOLD THAT ADDS UP — every lock you crack pays now, not just the modes that happened to drop coins. The rate climbs the longer you survive, and checkpoints pay a bonus on top. POINTER SKINS — spend that gold on the dot itself, alongside the backdrops. Plus a moment to see what went wrong when a run ends, instead of cutting straight to the score.