• Control Center buttons now open the app, straight into the daily rack, Fragments or Chain.

KNOW WHEN YOU'RE DONE • The daily rack now counts down to your streak: "5 more to keep your streak". • Reach it and the rack says "Done for today". Everything after that is for the higher tiers. • Home names the number before you start, so a daily fits a bus ride. A BIGGER WIDGET • On iOS 27, a tall widget shows all three daily games at once, with today's letters and the words each tier needs. • Every widget now shows how close today is to counting. ALSO NEW • The streak reminder says how many words today's rack needs. • Consent and tracking questions now come before your first game, never in the middle of one. • Light mode has clearer outlines on tiles, cards and buttons, and the rack's emblem is easier to read.

CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS • Every daily game now has a Game Center challenge, and so does Rush. Set how long it runs, invite friends, and the best score wins. • Everyone gets the same board each day, so a daily challenge is a fair fight. PLAY FROM THE GAMES APP • Today's Rack, Today's Fragments and Today's Chain open straight from Apple's Games app. • New leaderboards for your best score on each daily game. Only today's board counts toward a leaderboard or a challenge. Archive days stay practice. ALSO NEW • Practice days in Fragments and Chain can now show their answers. • Chain's par is now always reachable with words the board accepts.

ASK FOR IT BY NAME • "Play Wordslay", "Play Fragments in Wordslay", "Play Chain in Wordslay". Siri opens the day's board. • All three are Shortcuts actions, so you can put a game in any automation you like. • Three Control Center buttons, one per game. They work on the Lock Screen and the Action button too. • Spotlight finds all three games from the home screen. BETTER BOARDS • Every Chain board is rebuilt. No letter can strand you now, and the words that clear one are words you already know. • Every Fragments board needs all four tiles for each of the day's five words, on all 1,200 of them. • Another pass over the word lists. A few that had no business in a word game are gone. BIGGER TEXT • Every screen holds its shape at the largest accessibility text sizes, on iPhone and on iPad. • In Fragments and Chain, the little message after a word no longer sits on the board or on the words you have played.

Two new games, and both are daily. FRAGMENTS: twenty tiles, each a chunk of a word. Five of the day's words use exactly four tiles each, and anything else the dictionary knows is a bonus. CHAIN: twelve letters around a square. Every word starts where the last one ended, and no two letters in a row come from one side. Light all twelve to clear it. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE • Hints in Fragments and Chain. Fragments opens the first letter of one of the five; Chain opens one letter more of a word that works than you have already typed. Same few points as the daily rack, free on Plus, or watch a short video instead. • A streak for each game, and a sweep badge on the day you finish all three. • The widget can show all three games or any one of them, and each row opens its own game. • The archive now covers all three games. The last seven days are open to everyone; Plus opens every day back to the first daily. • Definitions open properly again. Also fixed: the slang toggle dropping words you had already found, a link opened mid round ending that round, ads still serving after consent was withdrawn, the Game Center dashboard not opening, and the streak after midnight.