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The Trading Post used to sell twelve things: four Skyline paints and a few touches for the reading room. It now sells ninety two, and they reach every corner of the cottage. Everything in it is bought with acorns earned by playing, nothing in it changes how a puzzle plays, and no
Hello everyone, A big tidying-up. Everything the game already knew but never told you, said out loud; a way out of a board you cannot finish; and a Skyline that behaves the way it looks. Your daily puzzles, your streak, your town and your rewards are exactly as you left them. The
Hello everyone, A tidying update. Your daily puzzles, your streak, your town and your rewards are exactly as you left them. Leaderboards You are on every board now. The fastest players are listed as always, and if you are not among them your own row is added at the end, under a s
A fix update. Your daily puzzles, your streak, your town and your rewards are exactly as you left them. Leaderboards - You are on every board now. The list shows the fastest players as it always did, and if you are not among them your own row is added at the end, under a small br
Hello everyone, Update 1.7.0 is live, and it is the biggest one since launch: three new things to play in three different places, and a game that grows a town. Your daily puzzles, your streak and your backyard are exactly as you left them. The Shore, a new door Walk down from the
Three new things to play in three different places, and a game that grows a town. Your daily puzzles, your streak and your backyard are exactly as you left them. The Shore, a new door Walk down from the backyard to the water: a beach with a pier, gulls, weather, and the cottage s
Hello everyone, Update 1.6.1 is live. Many of you joined in a language we only started announcing in recently, so this post opens with a short tour of everything the cottage has gained since launch, then the details of this update. Thank you to everyone who wrote in. Since launch
Content - Verse and Wheel word lists re-screened for family-safe play. A small number of words no longer appear as answers. - The Wheel no longer accepts those words as bonus words. - Several dictionary hints reworded. Challenges - The Challenge button on a leaderboard row now op
Challenges Solve a board, then tap Challenge a friend . You get a ten-character code that carries the day, the puzzle, the difficulty and your time: paste it into any chat app and your friend's game rebuilds exactly your board. On Steam you can skip the code and send it straight
One player-facing change: the Wheel daily cycle. What was wrong. Wheel's pool keeps several grids per set of letters. The daily cycle shuffled grids, not letter sets, and the offline stagger that ordered them only looked across the three difficulties on one day, never at the day
A new puzzle, every day, in a ring Wheel gives you a circle of letters and a grid waiting to be filled. Drag across the ring to spell a word and let go. If it belongs in the grid it drops into place, and every letter it shares with a word you have not found yet appears too, so ea
Achievements, and you have already earned some The demo never had achievements. It does now, nine of them, and they are not starting from zero. The first time you open this update, the cottage looks back through everything you have already done and gives you what you earned along
Warren: race your rabbit home, or grow a hedge in the way There is a fifth chair on the porch. Warren is a race across a garden, and on your turn you do one of two things: move your rabbit one square, or plant a hedge to send somebody else the long way round. That is the whole ga
Pick the size of the board You can now choose how big the board is before a match starts. It's in the same setup sheet where you pick the players and the opponent. Fences : 4, 5 or 6 boxes a side. The small one is quick enough for a young child. The big one will happily eat an ev
The streak freeze, when you can actually see it If you skipped a day, you would open Puzzle Cottage the next morning and find your freeze still sitting in the streak pill — and then it would quietly disappear later, in the middle of a puzzle. Now the bank settles the moment you o
Puzzle Cottage has always been something you do alone with a coffee. Now there is a second chair. Out on the porch A new place, reached the moment you open the game: a covered veranda with two seats facing each other across a low table, and four games meant to be played across it
Version 1.1.1 Completes the 27-language coverage (164 strings) Deterministic script fonts
The cottage now speaks 27 languages The whole game is translated: every menu, all fourteen rule sheets, every hint, win message and live status line. Pick yours in Settings. French, German, Dutch, Italian Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal) Polish,