Blackbox vs Footies

So you think you understand this thing you’re holding? Think again. Stop tapping. Stop swiping. In fact, stop touching the screen at all. To crack Blackbox’s puzzles you’ll need to find solitude and stillness, climb mountains, call on friends, get in tune with the cosmos, and think outside the box. Minimalistic visual clues make for incredibly satisfying “Aha!” moments, while sonic interfaces provide an extra level of guidance and nuance that makes Blackbox accessible with or without vision. Thoughtful haptic feedback, Easter eggs on Easter eggs, and solutions that can’t be found beneath the glass of your screen redefine what a puzzle can be. You’ll never see your device the same way again. Think you’re clever? Prove it. (Blackbox is a living game under active development by Ryan McLeod. When not eating burritos or drinking coffee, he’s busy designing and developing new Blackbox challenges.) ■

Seventeen football games. A fresh set every morning. One rating that tells you exactly how much ball knowledge you actually have. Footies is a daily football games workout built on thousands of real players and clubs - career paths, classic line-ups, transfer trails and the questions that settle arguments. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ TODAY'S LINEUP Eleven daily games, reset every morning on your own calendar day: - Career Path - follow the clubs, name the player - The daily football word game - five letters, six shots - Connections - find four links of four - TenaBall - name 7 of the top 10 - Box2Box - fill the club x country grid - GoalLess - the more obscure your answer, the lower you score - Footy Quiz - answer questions, build the heat - Contextinho - track down the secret player - Pack 11 - is the hidden stat higher or lower - The Heatmap - link players, light the grid - The List - beat the clock, empty the list PLAY ANY TIME Six more modes with no daily fixture, ready whenever you are: - Missing XI - complete a classic starting XI - Tiki-Taka-Toe - football noughts and crosses on one phone - My Club - eight rounds built around the club you support - Possession Play - two players, one phone or online, thirty-one hexes - Champions League Nights - ten rounds on the finals, under the lights - 38-0 - spin a club and a decade, draft five, go unbeaten BALL KNOWLEDGE Every game you finish feeds one honest rating. Your profile tracks your streak, recent form, your best modes and the football moments you have earned. PICK YOUR CLUB Choose the club you support and hear its song. With Footies+, the whole app wears its colours. Kits are drawn by Footies from club colours - no badges, no borrowed artwork. BUILT ON REAL FOOTBALL Every player, club and career spell comes from a verified dataset, and anything the sources cannot support is left out rather than invented. Career totals and rankings carry the date they were taken from. Free to play. No ads. No account needed. Footies+ is an optional subscription for unlimited practice after the daily, a thirty-day archive, deeper Ball Knowledge stats, streak freezes and your club’s colours; it never touches the League table or your rating. Footies is not affiliated with, endorsed by or licensed by any club, league or competition. Club and player names are used descriptively to identify real football facts.