New Game / Retry / Hint spacing and overlay protections. Personal stats update immediately for pending wins and losses, then reconcile with the server.

Watch Ad for Hint receives about twice the flexible width of either of the other two buttons.

Bugs fixes Larger keyboard Dedicated Stats page Improved Help menu Report a Bug

Back to Bloomer now returns to the already-open board instead of reloading the game. Settings → How to Play preserves a single return path back to the board.

Smoother app opening Theme-matched startup Light/Dark navigation polish Improved new-player guidance

New first-launch How to Play welcome popup explaining six tries and tile colors. Smooth, gentle popup animation with reduced-motion support. Direct ? How to Play button on the main game screen. Brief color-guide reminder after a new player’s first guess. Top ← Back to Bloomer link on How to Play for an easy return to the board.

Reliable rewarded hints after longer live ads; hints no longer expire mid-ad. Prevents the brief light-screen flash while navigating in Dark theme. Improved completion popup actions, including clearer retry behavior after an unsuccessful game. Latest word-pool, definition, and repeat-protection safeguards remain included.

Reliable rewarded-hint lifecycle and touch recovery after an ad. Hint reward callback protection for delayed/stale ads.

Improves rewarded hint ads after returning to an older idle game. Includes the complete iPhone/iPad app-icon set required for App Store distribution.

Stronger repeat protection: the app keeps a 60-word local history, rejects duplicate offline rounds, and clears legacy queued rounds once after updating. Server requests now send that recent-word history so new online and offline rounds avoid those words. Definitions for every active word. Regression tests for repeat protection, plural-word exclusion, and definition coverage.

Standard mode won’t repeat a word until all 300 Standard words have been used. Hard mode won’t repeat a word until all 100 Hard words have been used. Duplicate words already stored in the mobile offline queue are removed automatically. Added automated tests for repeated queue refills and full Standard/Hard cycles.

Word definitions now appear instantly after a solve. New players now start with the Light theme. Reopening Bloomer after completing a puzzle now starts a fresh game.

Fixed an issue where Play Again could fail to start a fresh word after an unsuccessful round. Improved feedback while a new game is loading.

Bloomer now plays more smoothly when your connection is interrupted. Turns score instantly, your active round is saved on your device, and word definitions are more reliable.

What’s New in Bloomer 1.0.2 - Added Light and Dark themes, plus a new Settings page. - Added Standard and Hard difficulty options. - Expanded the word collection to 300 Standard words and 100 Hard words. - Added a How to Play guide for new players. - Improved score reliability: guesses now recover more gracefully from temporary connection issues and won’t duplicate after a retry. - Improved feedback for invalid words and successful solves. - Refined Light-theme buttons, finish popup tiles, layouts, and accessibility across phone screens.

• Clearer feedback after each guess • More reliable rewarded hints • Hints and word definitions stay visible longer • Improved layout for modern iPhone screens • General gameplay improvements and bug fixes