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Updates

Every release for Word Board, newest first.

  • v1.1.0 October 17, 2026

    1.1.0

    • Recover from a blocked board with Undo before deciding to keep the score. Daily assistance still requires an explicit choice.
    • Continue directly into another practice board, a daily retry or the next learning board.
    • Add four optional, replayable learning boards covering diagonals, falling letters, planning and a small complete clear.
    • Add a short, skippable clear celebration after committing the result; reload preserves the result without granting progress twice.
    • Introduce two-stage hints: outline a starting tile, then reveal the word. Prefer a verified route to a clear; fallback hints favour familiar words that avoid isolating tiny groups and explicitly do not promise a clear.
    • Make recognised-word feedback explicit, improve supporting text and contrast, and place short phone-dialog decisions near the bottom.
    • Improve keyboard focus and navigation on sparse/diagonal boards, secondary-pointer handling and cancellation during rotation or resizing.
    • Reserve space for the arcade's right-edge menu handle in hosted phone layouts, including short-landscape hint controls.
    • Give Finish board a distinct sage background and olive border.
    • Show current and best daily streaks, today's status and seven paper stamps in the menu, with clear signed-out and unavailable states.
    • Adopt GameKit 0.8.0 scopes, presentation timing, sampled effects, surfaces and isolated previews. Pause reasons remain independent; samples retry and use a bounded voice pool.
    • Migrate sessions and profiles to separate v2 slots while preserving released saves and unknown future versions. Keep the published dictionary, 730 daily boards, scoring and 3:51 soundtrack unchanged.

    1.0.4

    • Balanced confirmation-dialog buttons: equal widths side by side, stacked at narrow phone widths.

    • Made diagonal swipes more forgiving: passing through a side tile's corner no longer immediately adds that letter.

    • Re-evaluate direction from each newly selected tile throughout the word, while keeping straight moves, deliberate turns and retracing available.

    • Read the final release position for active drags. Tap and keyboard selection retain their existing behaviour.

    1.0.3

    • Expanded accepted vocabulary from 113,947 to 201,393 words using current ESDB and ENABLE, preserving all previously accepted words.
    • Added familiar missing words and source-backed regular and irregular plurals; kept existing daily boards and hint seeds unchanged.
    • Added muted botanical tile colours by letter value; one-point tiles retain their cream colour.
    • Enlarged and darkened corner scores, with letter values included in accessible labels.
    • Replaced the music with Paper Garden, a new 3-minute-51-second acoustic loop. The original track exceeded the extension service input limit.

    1.0.2

    • Replaced the short background loop with Quiet Corners, a new 2-minute-21-second acoustic instrumental with felt piano, nylon guitar and soft marimba.
    • Kept the gentle paper-garden mood and separate sound/music controls.

    1.0.1

    First playable Word Board build.

    • Trace words through a 7×7 board of paper tiles, including diagonal turns.
    • Found words lift away; remaining letters fall straight down.
    • Score longer words and rare letters, with 500 bonus points for a clear board.
    • 730 verified clearable boards, daily challenges and unlimited practice.
    • Tap, drag and keyboard controls; undo and hints in assisted play.
    • Automatic local resume, synced preferences and daily best scores.
    • Spoiler-free score sharing, daily leaderboard and four achievements.
    • Original fal.ai soundtrack and paper-tile effects, with separate switches.
  • v1.0.4 October 15, 2026

    Word Board 1.0.4

    • Expanded the dictionary to 201,393 accepted words, including regular and irregular plurals.
    • Added gentle tile colours by letter value and larger, clearer corner scores; one-point tiles remain cream.
    • Added Paper Garden, a new 3-minute-51-second acoustic soundtrack.
    • Improved diagonal swipes throughout a word, preserving deliberate turns and backtracking.
    • Balanced confirmation-dialog buttons on desktop and phones.
    • Preserved existing daily boards and saved-game compatibility.
    • Restricted solution and near-win development commands to local development builds.
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