✨ New Features
Versus
• Added Bonanza to Versus Mode — same head-to-head, shared-board rules you already know, now with glowing bonus tiles scattered across the board. Grab a Gold, Silver, or Bronze tile in a word for extra points, or risk a Mystery tile for a surprise swing either way. You can also now toggle Normal, Fast, Blitz, and Bonanza on or off independently.
• Normal, Fast, and Blitz now live together under one "Versus Classic" card instead of three separate lobbies — pick your speed right inside the lobby, same as Single Player's Classic mode. Your leaderboard standings and stats for each speed are exactly where you left them, just a tap away instead of a separate page.
• Your Versus stats on the My Stats page now clearly separate Classic (red) from Bonanza (purple) for Normal, Fast, and Blitz, instead of lumping all six into one unlabeled color.
🐛 Bug Fixes
Daily Challenge
• On a shaky connection, tiles could stop responding to taps mid-round (including during Time Attack) even though the timer kept counting down normally. Fixed — a brief connection blip should no longer leave the board stuck.
• If you got a word in right at the very last second before the timer ran out, the round immediately after could sometimes get skipped entirely — ending before you ever got a chance to play it. Fixed — a last-second submission no longer costs you the next round.
• In Time Attack, fully reconnecting after a dropped connection could leave the board looking normal but completely unresponsive to taps — flipping was the only thing that would bring it back. Fixed — the board now wakes back up correctly on its own once you're reconnected.
• If a word you submitted got lost to a connection hiccup right as its round ended, its points could stay stuck in your running score even though the word itself correctly didn't count. Fixed — your score now stays accurate even when a submission doesn't make it through.
Single Player
• Same connection-blip fix as Daily Challenge above — tiles could stop responding to taps after a brief network hiccup, even with the timer still running normally.
• Same last-second-submission fix as above — a word squeezed in right at the buzzer could sometimes skip the entire next round.
• Same interrupted-game fix as Daily Challenge above — Ranked, Time Attack, Survival, or Bonanza, an interrupted game now ends cleanly and keeps whatever score you'd actually earned, instead of disappearing.
• Same Time Attack reconnect-freeze fix as Daily Challenge above.
Face-Off
• Same last-second-submission fix as above — a word squeezed in right at the buzzer could sometimes skip the entire next round.
• Same interrupted-game fix as Daily Challenge and Single Player above — Classic, Bonanza, Time Attack, or Survival, an interrupted game now ends cleanly and keeps whatever score you'd actually earned, instead of disappearing.
Survival
• The main timer could pulse red like it was almost out of time right from the start of a Survival run if you'd just finished a close call in another mode. Fixed — it now always reflects your actual time left.
Party Mode
• In Bonanza Party games, bonus tiles were staying put on screen instead of moving up with the board like they do everywhere else. Fixed — they now rise with the board correctly on every mode.
• Leaving the game during a Challenge round could leave its music playing with nothing on screen. Fixed — leaving now stops the music every time.
• After the occasional mid-game ad break, regular music could keep playing over the Challenge round countdown that follows instead of staying quiet until the Challenge music kicks in. Fixed.
Landing Page
• The Live Activity feed could show a player as "Usernull" instead of a proper name for guest play. Fixed — shows "Guest" now.
• Signing up with Google or Microsoft never showed the usual "👋 [name] joined!" post in the Live Activity feed, even though the account itself was created just fine. Fixed — every new signup shows up now, however you sign up.
• The Word Spotlight card could occasionally show something like "plural of flirt" instead of an actual definition when the word of the moment was a plural or other word form. Fixed — the card now always shows a real definition.
Versus
• Leaving right after a match ended (during the "next game starts in..." countdown) incorrectly warned that you'd forfeit and lose the match. Fixed — that warning now only shows while a match is actually still being played.
• The countdown tick sound during the last 10 seconds of a round never played in Versus, and could even start ticking again after a match ended while you were looking at the results screen. Fixed on both counts.
