Grid is easier where easy is the point The easiest level is 4x4 again. It became 6x6 in the last update, and although the rules were simple the board was nearly empty, so you had to make more than twenty correct deductions in a row before it came out. That is not a warm up, it is an exam. Medium now starts you with more numbers filled in too. Hard and Expert are unchanged. They are meant to be hard. Marathon gives Grid the time it takes The Marathon clock assumed every puzzle type costs the same at the same level. A grid has the most cells to fill and two taps per cell, so it always lost that arithmetic. Grid now gets half again as long as before. A medium grid has gone from 140 to 210 seconds.

A seventh game: Pattern. A rack of pegs holding coloured rings, and above the board, the arrangement you are copying. Take the top ring off a peg, drop it on a peg that has room, and keep going until the two match. There are no wrong moves here, only longer ways round. The puzzle is the order. A ring cannot go home until the rings beneath it are home, so you have to dig in the right sequence with very little room to park anything. Rings already in place get a gold rim, so you can see what is finished. Par is the shortest possible number of moves, and it is proved for every board. Pattern joins the daily set, Marathon and Training alongside the other six. Dragging is smoother. Pathfinder no longer lags behind a fast finger, and a quick reverse cuts the whole tail at once. Flow has had the same treatment. Both boards redraw more calmly, and sweeping quickly past a cell you cannot use no longer costs you time.

All six games have been rebuilt. Every board now has to prove it has exactly one solution, with the extra rules counted as part of the proof. Difficulty is measured by what a board demands of you, not by how big it is. Grid asks for deeper techniques. Pathfinder gives you more real decisions. Flow is no longer a walk. Area no longer hands you one huge rectangle. The main screen is new. Your day is a path: what you solved, what is next, and the centerpiece waiting further down. The streak now holds at two thirds of the set. Seven puzzles out of eight used to count for nothing. The preview on the card no longer shows the real board, and the clock does not start until you do. Friends has been taken out. It never found its footing. Plus a long list of smaller repairs, including one that could quietly take a finished day away from your streak.

A new puzzle type: Areal. Divide the grid into rectangles. Each rectangle holds exactly one number, and that number is its area, meaning how many cells the rectangle covers. No overlaps, no gaps, and every board has a single solution. Areal is fully part of the daily round, Marathon and training, alongside the other five types. We also polished the rest of the app, including better readability on iPad.

A new app icon: a gold T on deep blue. Your statistics now reflect only your daily puzzles and Marathon. Training no longer counts toward them, so your records and history stay true to real attempts. Leaderboard ranking is now accurate even on the busiest days, when hundreds of players share the same puzzles. Quiet cleanup under the hood.

Marathon polish. A brief intro the first time you enter. Smoother transitions between puzzles. A quiet pulse at 5, 10, 20 and 50 completed.

Marathon. One attempt per day. One puzzle at a time with a timer. How long can you hold the line?

Minor improvements and bug fixes.

More puzzles each day. Between six and twelve, depending on the day, instead of five. The daily screen has been redrawn for the new sets.

The friend system has been properly reworked. • Friend requests now require acceptance - or a quiet decline. • Mutual invitation: if you both enter each other's codes, the friendship forms immediately. • Notification when new requests arrive - so you actually notice. • Better cross-device sync: friends you added now see you back. • Tap to copy your code, share via tenkt:// links that auto-fill. • Daily rank shown next to each friend. 102 marks total - 45 new, spread across Traces and Social (new categories) alongside Streak, Speed, Breadth, Mastery and Leaderboard. Mark notifications now stay longer and can be tapped to dismiss once you've read them.

Purchases and themes survive reinstall. Bought traces, unlocked themes, and symbol packs are now backed up to your own iCloud. Switch phones or reinstall Tenkt, and everything comes back. Lost something before this update? Settings, Purchases, "Lost purchases?" opens a pre-filled email so you can send us your receipt.

Streaks now grow rewards. Each day in a row gives a higher multiplier on the traces you earn - 1.2× from day one, up to 3× after thirty days. Planning a vacation? Streak freezes are now stackable up to 14. Buy them in advance, used automatically. Hints now cost time on every difficulty, including Easy. Theme prices rebalanced. The four cheapest are more reachable, the four premium ones are real goals. Smaller fixes: rank on the home screen, missing translations, and the leaderboard now follows your local day.

Friends. Add people with a six-character code. Anonymous — no accounts, no profiles, no notifications. Just the code, a share button, and a quiet list. A new segment on the leaderboard shows today's times next to your friends'. No scoreboard, no pressure — just a balanced comparison when you choose to see it. Also: the leaderboard now rolls over at your midnight, not a server time zone.

Two fixes in this update: The leaderboard pill on the home screen now shows today's rank reliably, instead of falling back to yesterday's while data was loading. In the Balance puzzle, cycling through symbols (empty → sun → moon) no longer triggers a time penalty during the natural transit through "sun" when "moon" is the correct answer.

This is the largest update since launch. Daily puzzle count is now variable. Some days you get five puzzles, other days up to ten. Marks. 57 achievements across speed, breadth, mastery, and rank. Traces. An internal currency earned through play. Used to unlock themes, symbol packs, replays, and pause time during a difficult puzzle. Tier. Six levels from Iron to Legend, computed locally from your rolling weekly median rank. Shown alongside the leaderboard. Daily Encounter. A small card on the home screen showing your streak, your tier, and your traces. New each day. Replay. Any puzzle you finished today can be replayed for 750 traces. Your original time stays on the leaderboard. New themes. Sand, Sea, Forest, Aurora, Ember, Lavender, Mountain, Bamboo. Most unlock via streak. Master is earned only by holding Legend tier for thirty days. New symbol packs. Hearts, Crystals, Leaves, Coins. Plus Year Keeper, locked behind a streak of 365 days. Better hints. Every puzzle type now offers more useful hints. Path reveals more than a single cell. Flow prioritizes colors with the most distance left to cover. Pause. For 100 traces, freeze the timer for 30 seconds. Once per puzzle. Reveal. For 120 traces, reveal a full row or column on Grid and Balance. Adds 30 seconds. Streak protection. A safeguard, earned weekly, that holds your streak through one missed day. Optional purchases. Remove ads (NOK 29), Daily traces doubled (NOK 19), Tenkt Pro Bundle (NOK 39, saves 9 NOK). Trace bundles for unlocking cosmetics faster.

Two issues found after launch are now fixed: Some Hard placement puzzles could not be completed even when the placement was correct. Pressing Reset cleared the timer. Time and hints are now kept through the round.