# NO_OP_ — A puzzle with nothing to lose

> A puzzle with nothing to lose (iPhone/iPad app by Matthew Mills.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/no-op/id6798889675 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Matthew Mills](https://appshunter.io/developer/6798889677)
- Category: Games, Puzzle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 33 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-17
- Data updated: 2026-09-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/no-op/id6798889675/reviews.md

## What is NO_OP_?

NO_OP_ is a quiet puzzle game about ones and zeroes.

The screen is a field of digits. Drag across neighbouring cells that share the same digit to build a sled, then lift your finger and it clears. The cells above fall in to fill the gap. That is the whole game.

There is no timer, no move limit, and no way to lose. Dragging onto a digit that doesn't match is simply ignored, never punished. Fingers are imprecise, and the game never treats that as a mistake. Put it down mid-run and it will be exactly where you left it.

THREE WAYS TO PLAY

ENDLESS is a minimum sled of two, and it never moves. No ending, no score to chase. Somewhere to put your hands.

ASCENT starts the minimum sled at three and climbs by one every forty cells you clear. That is the entire difficulty system. At three you glance, at six you scan, at nine you plan a route before touching the screen.

DAILY is a single board seeded from the date, so everyone plays the identical one. Nothing refills, so the board only shrinks. Clear as much as you can, share a picture of what you left behind, and come back tomorrow.

TWO COLOURS, ALWAYS

Every theme is exactly a background and an ink: light, dark, terminal green, amber, and DOS blue. A selected cell is a straight inversion with square corners and no gap, so a run merges into one solid shape. There is no third colour anywhere, including the icon.

IT SHOULD FEEL LIKE SOMETHING

A tick as each cell joins the sled, a heavier one when it clears, and nothing at all when a drag drifts onto a digit that doesn't match. The haptics are the point, not the polish.

NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE

No accounts. No analytics. No ads. No crash reporting. No network calls of any kind. It works in airplane mode, permanently. The daily board isn't handed out by a server. It's arithmetic from the date that happens to agree across every device.

A no-op is the instruction that does nothing. The trailing underscore is a terminal cursor.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-08-17

No release notes.

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All apps by Matthew Mills: https://appshunter.io/developer/6798889677

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