Invite links now open the app. A challenge texted to you used to land in a web browser where you weren't signed in. Tap it now and TrickMate opens straight to that game. Better still, you may not need the link at all: the people you've already played are now listed on your Games screen. Tap Challenge and the game appears in their app immediately — no code, no text message. Also in this version: - Pawn Up moves your pawn twice; it is no longer mistaken for an opening double step, so your pawn can't be taken in passing on a square it crossed. - Every step of playing a Trick now lights up the squares you can actually tap, including placing a Queen with Queens Gambit. - Refusals explain themselves — including why a King can't take a defended piece even with Kings Gambit.

Take a Trick back. A Trick you've played but not yet used can now be handed straight back to your hand — on your phone and on your Apple Watch, which until now had no way out of one. Your Watch also tells you which Trick is in force and what it can't do. Also fixed: - Playing against the computer: it could cancel its own Trick before you got the chance to answer it. Your Cancel now always gets its turn. - Checkmate, stalemate and draws now take account of the Tricks you're holding and the Trick in force, so games no longer end while you still have a move. - A card can no longer promote a pawn — it promotes by reaching the last rank under its own power. - Challenge anyone straight from the Rankings table. - Fewer taps to play a Trick.

Play on your Apple Watch. TrickMate now has a watch app: see whose move it is, play a move, and play a Trick from your wrist. Pair it with the code your phone shows under Play on another device. Also in this update: - Play the computer, without waiting for an opponent. - A Trick can no longer deliver checkmate outright. - The app now tells you when a new version is waiting in the App Store, instead of saying you are up to date. - Nudges, slaps and punches make a sound.

Nudges, slaps and punches now make a sound. Also in this update: - Connects on networks that block WebSockets, including some hotel and guest Wi-Fi. - Falls back to a second route if the first is unreachable, and retries when you switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data. - No longer stalls on the loading screen when the network is refusing it. - A Trick can no longer deliver checkmate outright. - Fixes a duplicate alert when someone poked you.