Block Chess vs Duplikat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Block Chess
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Block Chess is a chess-like board game. It has a 8x8 board and each side has five different types of four-block pieces. The player is to place one piece on the board without side-by-side connecting his own pieces. The player who places the final piece wins the game!
Duplikat
Enhance your word game skills by finding the highest scoring words from a set of letters. Offers timed games, saved progress, and support for multiple languages and board types. Includes an anagram finder to discover words from your current letters.
- Find highest scoring words
- Timed game modes
- Save and replay games
- Multi-language support
- Multiple board types
- Anagram finder
- Dark mode
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With Duplikat you will have fun developing your skills in all those word games where you have to combine letters to form crosswords. At the beginning of the game, the app displays 7 letters drawn from the "bag". You then try to find the highest scoring word and place it on the game board. When you have decided or at the end of the thinking time (when you are playing a timed game), you tap "Validate" to enter your move. At this point the app announces the "max score", i. e. the word that gives the highest score in context and places it on the board. You only score the number of points corresponding to the word that you have found. The app then draws the new letters from the bag, and the game continues. There must be at least two vowels and two consonants up to the 15th move then one vowel and one consonnant from the 16th move. If the seven letters selected do not respect these constaints, they are put back in the bag and seven new letters are chosen. If there are no more consonants or no more vowels in the bag, the game ends. - The app comes with a small number of prepared games that you can replay in full. But you can also start random games and play them until the 8th move. With Duplikat Pro, this limit disappears and you can continue the game until the end. - All games can be saved for replay or sent by email (in csv or txt format) - The app supports several languages: French, English, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Greek and Romanian. - Several types of board are available: Scrabble, Words With Friends, Wordfeud, Lexulous - three dictionaries available in English (Enable, CSW and TWL) - Display of the current max score on option - Timed game (15 seconds to 10 minutes) - Joker game - Topping mode - Dark mode support - The Anagram tab allows you to search for words that can be formed from letters in the current rack, taking into account the constraints specified in the "Filter" area. With Duplikat Pro, you can enter the letters of your choice in the ‘Selection’ field, or even clear this field to extend the search to the entire dictionary.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Duplikat at Free against Block Chess's $0.99. Duplikat also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 15 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Block Chess's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Duplikat is free to download; Block Chess costs $0.99 up front. Duplikat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Block Chess asks for nothing beyond the download.
Block Chess ships an update every 15 months, Duplikat every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Block Chess | Duplikat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 92.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ZHONGYUAN SHEN | TablEdit |
In-app purchases
Block Chess
No in-app purchases
Duplikat
- Duplikat Pro$3.99









