BATTLE UP TO SIX PLAYERS NEARBY Nearby Battle is now a party. Two to six phones in the same room link up under the battle names you choose, race to pick the battle together, and start once everyone is ready. Every player keeps their own color on every screen, the live board shows each rival's characters as you type, and the finish flows straight into ranked standings, ties included. KEEP THE ROOM TOGETHER • SAME THEME plays another round on a fresh passage. NEW SETUP goes back to the battle picker. Nobody has to search again. • A dropped connection doesn't stop the race. Typing and the clock keep going while a player has fifteen seconds to reconnect, and if the host drops out, another phone takes over. • Screens stay awake while the group is together, so an idle phone doesn't drop out. • If a nearby phone needs an update to join, the search screen says so. PICK YOUR BATTLE ON THE CARDS Home is cleaner. 1 PLAYER, Online and Invite a Friend now open illustrated Words, Numbers and Glyphs cards, so you choose what you'll type right before the fight. Online, the host's pick is played, and the lobby tells you when it differs from yours. SHUFFLED GLYPH KEYBOARDS, SHARED Every Glyphs battle deals a freshly shuffled keyboard, and in multiplayer every player gets the exact same layout, so nobody starts with an advantage. A CLEARER BATTLE SCREEN • TOTAL BONUS sits beside the clock and names what you've earned: PUNCTUATION, CAPS, NUM and SYM. • A slimmer TYPE TO BATTLE prompt gives the passage more room. • The battle header shows the era and the time you picked. • Sound effects have their own SFX switch. FIXES AND POLISH • When every rival leaves mid-race, you take a forfeit win that doesn't count toward wins or badges. • Home fits iPhone SE at full size, and larger text sizes fit Home, the channel screen and standings. • Online Glyphs lobbies no longer stall on the keyboard check. • VoiceOver reads the SFX switch as a switch.

FRESH TEXT, EVERY SINGLE MATCH Words battles now pull a live passage from Wikipedia, matched to the era and category you chose credited on screen, and never the same text twice. Speeches come from real transcripts on Wikisource instead of prose about them. A SCORE THAT SAYS WHAT YOU DID Every correct keystroke is exactly one character. The extra reach some characters take is paid separately as BONUS: punctuation and capitals are worth +1, numbers and symbols +2. The battle screen names each category and what it pays while you type, so you always know what a stretch of text is worth. ONE LADDER DECIDES EVERY MATCH Characters, then total bonus, then errors. That is what settles a battle, what sets your personal best, and what promotes a run to your ghost, one rule everywhere instead of three different ones. A REBUILT FINISH SCREEN Results now open with the battle you just played: outcome, grade, character score, match time and category in a single card, with the replay button built into it. Head-to-head reads as the ladder itself, whichever side won a rung lights up, and the pace chart draws both runs, yours and theirs. BATTLE PEOPLE YOU KNOW • Game Center invites finally arrive. Send one from the channel screen or the lobby, and accept one straight into a match. • SEARCH FOR ANYONE now runs inside Battle Type instead of a full-screen sheet, and tells you how many players are actually queued. • RUN IT BACK rematches the opponent you just faced, online or nearby, instead of dropping you back in the queue with a stranger. SHARPER EVERYWHERE • The home type selector shows what you would be typing and reads as swipeable. • Both progress meters in a battle now measure the same thing at the same scale. • Timed matches size their passage properly and always end on a whole word. • Live typing rides a faster channel, so a lossy connection cannot stall your opponent's progress bar. • Leaving a match tells your opponent immediately, instead of leaving them on a countdown that was always going to end in MATCH ABANDONED.