Tideword

The biggest update since launch. New ways for the sea to behave, sound for the first time, and a long list of fixes from what players hit on device. NEW WAYS TO PLAY • Charted Waters — levels now have a silhouette. A narrow chimney can drown while the bay beside it is still open water, so you read the shape instead of the same rectangle every time. • Neap Tide — levels where the sea only brings a handful of letters. The question stops being "what showed up" and becomes "what can I still make from these seven". • Salvage Chunks — driftwood carrying whole syllables. TH, ING, QU, EST and PRE arrive as single tiles and join straight into your word. • Beachcomber's Album — four pages, forty-eight words to find, and finishing a page pays out. Every mode counts toward it. • Tide Streak — clean runs now build something. SOUND, FINALLY Settings has offered Sound effects and Haptics since 1.0 with nothing behind them. That promise is kept. Every letter you add plays the next note up a pentatonic scale, so a long word climbs as you trace it — you hear the length before you see the score. THE SEA ITSELF • The waterline is a real surface now: a curve across the tops of the stacks that rises with the tide and dips into every column you've cleared. • Water rises visibly up the board instead of a flat line marking the top. • Redesigned home screen — the empty space is now the water column you're descending, with your depth marked on it. FIXES • The bottom row lets you trace properly. Words that started or ended on the last row could be cut short if your finger drifted below the board. Fixed. • Clear the board to the floor and new rows arrive immediately instead of leaving you waiting on the tide timer. Playing well is no longer punished with waiting. • An invalid word no longer shakes the whole board — the trace just goes slack. Reaching for a word that might not exist is the game; it shouldn't feel like a penalty. • Coin packs grant up to 3.5x more than before. The old amounts were not worth their price. • Buttons are properly outlined, bolder and better spaced throughout. • Rewarded-ad failures now say what went wrong instead of silently doing nothing. OPTIONAL REMINDERS The Notifications toggle in Settings finally does something. Two reminders a day at most, scheduled entirely on your device — no account, no server, nothing leaves your phone. Ignore them three times and they stop on their own.