Grid Grab vs Cold Case Bureau
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grid Grab
Engage in a classic strategy game of drawing lines and capturing boxes. Compete against players worldwide on a real-time global leaderboard. Enjoy fast, fluid gameplay with multiple grid sizes for varied challenges.
- Real-time global leaderboard
- Classic Dots & Boxes strategy
- Fast, fluid gameplay
- Multiple grid sizes
- Free to play
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Grid Grab is the ultimate competitive dots and boxes experience. Draw lines, capture boxes, and outsmart your opponents in this classic strategy game — now with a real-time global leaderboard. HOW TO PLAY: - Take turns drawing lines between dots on the grid - Complete the fourth side of a box to claim it and earn a bonus turn - The player who captures the most boxes wins! FEATURES: - Live Global Leaderboard — see how you rank against players worldwide - Classic Dots & Boxes Strategy — easy to learn, hard to master - Fast, fluid gameplay built for iPhone - Multiple grid sizes to suit any skill level - Free to play Whether you're a casual player or a competitive strategist, Grid Grab is the dots and boxes game built for serious players. Download now and start climbing the ranks!
Cold Case Bureau
Engage in a slow-paced mystery game where you analyze case files, evidence, and suspect testimonies to uncover contradictions. Piece together clues on your investigation board to solve crimes and advance your detective career through increasingly challenging tiers.
- Analyze case files and evidence
- Identify contradictions in testimonies
- Use an investigation board
- Progress through difficulty tiers
- Offline play
- Reputation system
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One case a day. The same case for everyone. Nothing to buy, no ads, no account. Cold Case Bureau puts a case file on your desk: the victim, the suspects, the evidence, and somewhere inside it, one story that doesn't hold together. Read the file. Find the two statements that can't both be true. Pin them on the board and watch the string pull tight. Then build your theory, not a guess from a menu, but an argument, element by element. Get part of it right and that part locks in. Get part of it wrong and the case tells you exactly which part, and lets you keep working. THE DAILY CASE Every day the Bureau opens one case, and it's the same case for every player in the world. Solve it, keep your streak alive, and share your result. A spoiler-free grid that shows how you did without giving anything away. INVESTIGATE Four Case Hours, and a case that offers more than four hours of leads. Press a suspect with a piece of evidence and what they say depends on what you chose to show them. Pull records nobody asked for. Send evidence to the lab. Earn a warrant with proof from your board. A wasted half hour is on you, but the case can always be closed from the file alone. Nothing is ever locked behind a guess. THE INVESTIGATION BOARD Real red string. Connect two pieces of evidence that contradict each other and the connection is established permanently. The board is where you prove people are lying. THE ARCHIVE More than ninety past Daily cases, free to work in any order, from quick Rookie files to five-suspect Senior investigations with paper trails that close like a net. FAIR PLAY, GUARANTEED Every case is verified solvable from its own evidence before it ships. Every question has exactly one answer the file supports. If you reason correctly, you win - that's the whole promise. No ads. No purchases. No timers that want your money. Just cases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Grid Grab at 5.0 against Cold Case Bureau's 4.1. Grid Grab also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Cold Case Bureau's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Grid Grab holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cold Case Bureau has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Grid Grab ships an update every 2 days, Cold Case Bureau every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grid Grab | Cold Case Bureau |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.1 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | normank | Thomas Masters |
In-app purchases
Grid Grab
No in-app purchases
Cold Case Bureau
No in-app purchases









