Comparison

Papaya Peg vs Tricky Triangle

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Papaya Peg

A cheerful peg solitaire puzzle game offering various board types and challenges. Enjoy classic and variant layouts, daily and weekly puzzles, and quests with helpful features like move guides and undo/redo. Play at your own pace, with optional Game Center integration for score sharing.

Highlights
  • Classic and variant peg solitaire boards
  • Daily and Weekly Challenges
  • Quest mode with unlockable paths
  • Move guides and undo/redo functionality
  • Local high scores and saved progress
  • Optional Game Center integration
  • Offline play support
Features
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Can you leave just one peg standing? Papaya Peg is a cheerful peg solitaire puzzle game for iPhone and iPad. Jump pegs or marbles over their neighbors, clear the board, and chase the satisfying one-piece finish. Free to play, works offline, and never asks you to make an account. Browse Classic Boards, Today's Challenges, Variant Boards, and Quests from a swipeable card chooser, then jump straight into the puzzle that fits your mood. Play classic peg solitaire boards, larger variants, and calendar challenges: - Triangle - a compact triangular board with quick rounds that fit nicely into short play sessions. - English - the classic cross-shaped board. Jump horizontally or vertically and try to finish with one marble in the center. - European - a wider expert-style board with more holes and a roomier challenge. - Triangle: Six-Row and Triangle: Seven-Row - larger triangle boards that unlock as you solve. - Daily Challenge - a shared board each day, with saved progress, a solve streak, and Papaya rewards for solving. - Weekly Challenge - a harder solver-verified puzzle released each week. - Quests - unlock opening challenge paths, replay cleared stages, and try for extra-satisfying one-peg finishes. New in 1.10: build a daily habit. Solving the Daily Challenge on back-to-back days builds a solve streak and earns you Papayas for every solve. A new Streak Calendar (open it from the Daily lobby) shows your solved and missed days, with milestone badges at 7, 30, 100, and 365 days. Miss a day? Buy a Streak Freeze in the Store and it's spent automatically so your streak keeps going. Stuck on a Daily, Weekly, or Quest puzzle? Tap the lightbulb Hint button for a free check that your position can still be solved, then reveal the recommended move when you want it. Hints and undos run on Papayas, which you earn free by watching a short video whenever you like. Ask for it and it opens. Say the word to Siri, or use Spotlight or the Action Button, and Papaya Peg jumps straight to the Daily Challenge, a classic board, a Quest, High Scores, or the Store. Your progress can follow you across devices. Papaya Peg uses your own private iCloud account to keep results, streaks, and Quest progress in sync - no new account, just the iCloud you're already signed into. Offline play still works everywhere; sync catches up once you're back online. Papaya Peg includes optional move guides and available-move highlighting, first-play tips, undo and redo, an in-game Pause, local high scores, saved progress, optional notifications for new Daily and Weekly boards, sound effects, and haptic feedback. Game Center is optional. Enable it to share eligible scores and earned achievements, including progress earned offline. Daily and Weekly leaderboards celebrate the solves you work out yourself. Prefer to play without ads? One purchase removes them permanently and makes hints and undos unlimited, and it works with Family Sharing. If you'd simply like to say thanks, optional supporter trophies go on display in your High Scores - and drift gently in the background too. Download Papaya Peg and see how close you can get to the perfect finish.

About

Tricky Triangle

This classic peg-jumping puzzle challenges players to remove pegs by jumping over neighbors into empty holes. Progress through increasingly difficult boards across four unique shapes, with a single life per climb. Utilize hints or undo moves, but know that clean runs without them are required for leaderboard rankings.

Highlights
  • Peg-jumping puzzle mechanics
  • Four shapes and twenty boards
  • Single life per climb challenge
  • Built-in hint and undo system
  • Global leaderboard for clean runs
  • Offline play
  • Customizable themes and skins
Features
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Tricky Triangle is the classic peg-jumping puzzle, rebuilt for "just one more board" obsession. The rule is simple: jump one peg over a neighbor into an empty hole, like a capture in checkers, and the jumped peg is removed. Keep going until a single peg remains. Easy to learn, brutal to master. But clearing one board is only the beginning. FIVE SHAPES, TWENTY-FIVE BOARDS Climb Triangle, Diamond, Hourglass, Hexagon, and Star boards, each with five tiers: Easy, Normal, Hard, Extreme, and the white-knuckle Insane. THREE SHAPES FREE Triangle, Diamond, and the new Hourglass are yours from the first tap — fifteen boards, no purchase, no unlock. The Hourglass narrows to a single waist, so every plan has to squeeze through the middle, and each tier stands taller than the last: five rows up to thirteen. Clear your way onward to earn the Hexagon and the Star. ONE LIFE PER CLIMB Here is the twist: a climb is a single run. Win and you advance with your score intact. Hit a dead end with no legal jumps left, and the run is over. Every move matters. STUCK? TAKE A HINT A built-in solver finds a winning move whenever one exists. Double-tap Hint to auto-jump out of trouble. But pride has a price: lean on hints or undo, and your run will not rank. CLIMB THE GLOBAL LEADERBOARD Clean runs, no hints and no undo, battle for the worldwide top 10. Drop your three initials, arcade-style, and defend your spot. Earn Speedster, Flawless, and No-Hints badges along the way. FEATURES - Pure logic, no luck: every board is solvable - 25 hand-tuned boards across five shapes and five difficulties - A time bonus rewards speed, but the clock never ends your run - Score multipliers and 1-3 star ratings on every board - Global leaderboard for clean runs, with collectible badges - Themes, peg skins, and dark mode - Play offline, no account and no sign-up - Free to play; remove ads forever with a single one-time unlock KNOW IT BY ANOTHER NAME? Peg solitaire goes by many names: marble solitaire, solo noble, Brainvita, Senku — or simply the triangle peg board game from restaurant tables. If you have ever left one peg standing and felt like a genius, this is that puzzle, with somewhere to go next. There is always one more board to clear. How far can you climb?

Screenshots

Papaya Peg4 screens
Tricky Triangle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Papaya Peg at ad-supported against Tricky Triangle's free with in-app purchases. Tricky Triangle's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Papaya Peg sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Tricky Triangle sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Papaya Peg against 5.0 for Tricky Triangle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Papaya Peg ships an update every 10 days, Tricky Triangle fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Papaya Peg versus Tricky Triangle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPapaya PegTricky Triangle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew Fadoulxo9 LLC

Customer experience

Papaya Peg

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tricky Triangle

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Papaya Peg

One-time7
  • Papaya Cup$0.99
  • Bronze Supporter$1.99
  • Papaya Basket$2.99
Show 4 more
  • Papaya Crate$4.99
  • Silver Supporter$4.99
  • Remove Ads Forever$9.99
  • Gold Supporter$9.99
4 purchases

Tricky Triangle

One-time4
  • Unlock Level$0.99
  • Unlock Hexagons$1.99
  • Unlock Stars$1.99
Show 1 more
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Papaya Peg free?
Papaya Peg is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tricky Triangle free?
Tricky Triangle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Papaya Peg or Tricky Triangle?
Papaya Peg and Tricky Triangle are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Papaya Peg or Tricky Triangle have ads?
Both Papaya Peg and Tricky Triangle show ads.
Which is updated more often, Papaya Peg or Tricky Triangle?
Papaya Peg ships an update every 10 days, and Tricky Triangle fortnightly. Most recently, Papaya Peg was updated on September 26, 2026 and Tricky Triangle on September 25, 2026.

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