Fixed an issue that was causing a lot of continuous lag on launch for some users --- This is a huge update for Bullpen! NEW: Battle Arena Go head-to-head in live puzzle battles, climb the rankings, and challenge your friends. Battles open at selected times throughout the week, so keep an eye out and jump in when the arena is live. Also included: • New Axes Lock setting in Advanced Gameplay Settings • Performance improvements to reduce battery drain, especially on iPad • More reliable iCloud syncing • Fixed the Daily Challenge timer continuing in the background • Fixed some hint generation issues, mainly in Extreme levels • Lots of smaller bug fixes and polish As always, thanks for playing Bullpen!

This is a huge update for Bullpen! NEW: Battle Arena Go head-to-head in live puzzle battles, climb the rankings, and challenge your friends. Battles open at selected times throughout the week, so keep an eye out and jump in when the arena is live. Also included: • New Axes Lock setting in Advanced Gameplay Settings • Performance improvements to reduce battery drain, especially on iPad • More reliable iCloud syncing • Fixed the Daily Challenge timer continuing in the background • Fixed some hint generation issues, mainly in Extreme levels • Lots of smaller bug fixes and polish

• Improved iCloud level sync for Pro users — should be more reliable now • Fixed Hide Hint Button not consistently carrying over between levels • Share message now includes your rank percentage • Fixed bull placements (long-press / single-tap via Advanced Settings) not counting toward Bulls Placed stats and achievements • If Placement vibrations is off, the game won’t trigger haptics anywhere (including buttons/menus) • Fixed the Game Center profile icon covering the “Send” button when emailing feedback via Apple Mail • Level selector filters now affect the in-level Next/Previous arrows • Added an indicator dot on the filter button when filters are active • Leaderboards now show better loading states when results take a while • Added a new Developer Note shown the first time you view the Upgrade to Pro screen As always, thanks for playing Bullpen!

The 'Advanced Gameplay Settings' should now actually be available in the Settings menu. --- NEW – Advanced Gameplay Settings • Choose how to place bulls: single tap, double tap, or long press (for all difficulties, or per difficulty) • Set separate volumes for sound effects and background music • Turn Angry Bull sounds off if they’re stressing you out • Hide the Hint button to avoid accidentally tapping it NEW – Look & Feel Upgrades • Theme selector now has a “Follow system” option for light/dark mode • Level Selector filters: hide solved levels, or only show levels without 2 stars • Unlocked the secret Extreme levels? You’ll now see an Extreme option in Free Play – plus a new “Best Extreme Free Play Time” leaderboard FIXED – A Few Pesky Bugs • Newspaper theme no longer blocks you from using the Share or Email sheets • Overall leaderboard rank now stays in sync with your total stars • Buttons now correctly update when you change themes

NEW – Advanced gameplay settings • Choose how to place bulls: single tap, double tap, or long press (for all difficulties, or per difficulty) • Set separate volumes for sound effects and background music • Turn Angry Bull sounds off if they’re stressing you out • Hide the Hint button to avoid accidentally tapping it NEW – Look & feel upgrades • Theme selector now has a “Follow system” option for light/dark mode • Level Selector filters: hide solved levels, or only show levels without 2 stars • Unlocked the secret Extreme levels? You’ll now see an Extreme option in Free Play – plus a new “Best Extreme Free Play Time” leaderboard FIXED – A few pesky bugs • Newspaper theme no longer blocks you from using the Share or Email sheets • Overall leaderboard rank now stays in sync with your total stars • Buttons now correctly update when you change themes

The option to change the Theme within Settings should now be visible. Oops, that was an embarrassing bug.

• NEW: Dark mode, along with a few other themes • Fixed an issue where it would sometimes display "Anonymous" as the player name when viewing the leaderboard • iOS 26 support – including a new app icon to support dark or clear mode • Fixed a few more issues with iCloud syncing to try and make it more reliable • Optimizations to make launching the game a little faster

• Secret Extreme Levels now unlock after completing 1,000 puzzles. • New Extreme Levels drop every week—can you keep up?

• Hopefully the bug that keeps causing some crashes when 'Sound effects' was enabled is now squashed!! • A few other minor bug fixes

• Squashed the pesky crash bugs from the last release — puzzles should now run smoothly. • Improved iCloud syncing so your progress follows you more reliably across devices.

• Fixed an issue where some Medium levels accidentally shared the same Puzzle ID — completing one would mark the others as done. Don’t worry, any progress you’ve already made is safe. • The app will now stay awake while you’re in the middle of solving a puzzle, even if you don't make a move for a while. • Squashed a few more crashes related to sound effects. If you still experience crashes, please report them or try turning sound effects off. • Added a link to the new Bullpen Subreddit: r/BullpenGame

• Some achievements were acting up, they should work better now • New achievement available called 'All-rounder', fixed the logic for the 'Platinum' achievement • Reduced the Daily Challenge 365-day streak Achievement to just 250 days • Fixed some crashes that could occur due to the Sound Effects • Fixed some levels where the Hint System couldn't generate a hint

• Fixed issues in Daily Challenge where pausing mid-game could stop “Remaining Bulls,” undo/redo, or the timer from working correctly. • Replaced secret Extreme level 8 so it now works properly with the Hint system. • Made small improvements to the detailed Graph Views. • Fixed a crash when completing a Random Free Play puzzle. • Fixed an issue where some solved level times were wiped, allowing those levels to be completed again.

• You can now override the app’s language in Settings — a popular request based on recent feedback. • Fixed a bug where Leaderboard labels incorrectly referred to “global” scores when viewing friends’ results. • In the Secret Extreme difficulty, Level 37 and 41 were previously identical — Level 41 has now been updated with a new challenge.

Localization support for over 20 new languages!

This is a pretty beefy update... New • iCloud progress sync for Pro users has been completely rebuilt for greater reliability. • App settings now sync automatically across all devices via iCloud. • Added a “Random” difficulty option in Free Play. • Daily Challenge results now display percentile badges (e.g. “Top 1 %”, “Top 25 %”). • Level resets are now reversible—tap Undo to restore the puzzle progress. • A secret bonus for players who have completed a bunch of levels. Fixed • Stopping a daily challenge during its countdown could crash the app or make the timer start at a couple of minutes • Scrolling in the level selector is noticeably smoother. • Hard-difficulty puzzles now render at a readable size on iPhone SE. • Music from other apps continues playing when Bullpen launches. • Hint arrows clear correctly when starting a new Free Play puzzle. • Hints now generate consistently; the “Well this is awkward…” error should no longer appear — report it as a bug if it does.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue where sometimes it wasn't possible to generate a hint for a puzzle — it would say "Well this is awkward..." • Fixed an issue where the Daily challenge countdown and the Game Center Daily challenge leaderboards would overlap by an hour. This was an issue due to daylight savings — yay, Time Zones are fun. • Fixed an issue where tapping "Done" whilst starting the Daily Challenge used to crash the app

• New "Auto-place Dots" setting — if enabled, it will automatically place Dots around placed Bulls, and completed columns, rows and paddocks. It will not be applied in Daily Challenges. • Reduced the amount of Stars required to unlock levels • Fixed a bug where Music or Picture in Picture video would pause when launching the app • Fixed a couple of other little bugs and improvements

• New: For those without the "Pro version", I've increased the amount of levels for each difficulty from 30 to 50. • New: ‘Rocks’ now appear in early levels for some difficulties to help with getting started. • New: Added some 8x8 boards to the first few Hard levels to ease players into the difficulty. • New: ‘Zen Mode’ is now available in settings—hide all timers for a more relaxed experience. • Fixed: A bug where pressing ‘Undo’ sometimes didn’t correctly revert random squares. Plus, a few other optimisations and bug fixes!

Fixed a bug where sometimes the game would freeze after making the bulls angry.

A few minor bug fixes

A few small bugs fixes