New Features - A brand new Story Mode has been added to the game! Play through 45+ handcrafted levels and uncover the strange mystery of a fridge haunting someone’s dreams. - Alongside Story Mode, we’ve also added a brand new Story Mode Theme together with additional theme settings. - A new ‘Letter Count’ feature has been added that instantly shows the total letter count for created words. This feature can be toggled in the Settings. Optimisation and Fixes - We’ve implemented several under-the-hood fixes and optimisations that improve word lookup functionality as well as overall game performance. Wordlist Changes - Words requested by players have been reviewed and, if found to be safe and valid, added to their wordlists

Bug fixes

New Features ● We’ve got a shiny new icon! We hope it better reflects what our players would expect from a word game. ● We’ve also given the default theme a refresh: now it’s got that classic, tiled word game vibe. ● For all the fans of the old-school Words in Progress default theme, don’t worry! We’ve added it back as the 'Classic Red' theme. Enjoy! Wordlist Changes ● All words requested by players have been reviewed and, if found to be suitable for all ages and valid, added to our word lists. Thank you to everyone who gave us feedback! Quality of Life Improvements ● Added a highlight state to the drop box for keyboard and controller interaction for specific drop box states. This way the player has a better indication of where their interaction is in those states. Bug Fixes ● Fixed an edge case bug where the drop box could get ‘stuck’ in a highlighted state when combining mouse with touch and keyboard or controller interaction methods. ● Fixed an issue with theme bars not coloring properly when changing the game language in the theme overlay.

New Features ● In Game Function Menu: we’ve added a new 'In-Game Function Menu' to the gameplay view! This menu includes extra features such as our new 'Word Lookup' and 'Shuffle,' making your gameplay experience even better. ● Word Lookup: a new 'Word Lookup' function has been added to the in-game function menu! This feature allows players to check and validate words before using them in the game. ● Shuffle Mode: a new ‘Shuffle' function has been added to the in-game function menu! This feature allows players to shuffle their tiles in an active game. ● Haptics: You can now toggle haptics in the Settings and experience the game with some playful vibrations during your word creation. Note that haptics are only available for iOS. ● Keep track of what's new: a new information feature is added to the Support Overlay. This allows you to quickly view the latest updates, as well as previous ones. ● Improved APN Integration: we’ve added a new event: the 24h versus game timeout warning as well as new badge integration. ● New Language Support: the game now has full game translations for Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. UI ● Removed the desync iCloud-warning from tvOS builds. ● Themes within the ThemeOverlay now show a preview of their in-game look-and-feel ● Tweaked the cup icon for the challenge bars in the Multiplayer ‘finished’ tab: ○ Added a new ‘draw’ cup icon when a game resulted in a draw / tie ○ Removed the cup icon when a game is canceled ● Added AM/PM support for Arabic and US English ClientLanguages ● Added an additional explanation pop-up before requesting access to the players’ Game Center Friends ● Tweaked the localisation for the last (15 tile) challenge of Endless Mode. Optimisation ● A version-check is now implemented that allows us to improve and future proof our client-server communications. ● Result Tiles are now batched and pooled, which should greatly increase the performance of the Endless Pause screen as well as the end Result, Running and Highscore Overviews of large Endless games Wordlist Changes ● All words requested by players have been reviewed and, if found to be safe and valid, added to their wordlists. Thank you to everyone who requested a change! ● We've expanded our German wordlist once again through user input as well as by adding a new data set. We hope that our German players can now enjoy the game even more. ● Because we have added many new German words in this new update, we've had to tweak the letter values in some cases when playing levels in German from now on (because some letters occur more than others now in German). This is most likely a one-time change, and languages other than German will not be affected.   Bug Fixes ● Fixed a bug where the in DropBox would retain its color when pressing pause or when the game loses focus ● Fixed a bug where the Endless music wouldn’t go back to the previous range when new tiles would spawn in ● Fixed a bug where the audio was able to trigger twice on game start ● Fixed a bug where UK English wouldn’t show timestamps in Endless and SaveData ● Fixed a bug where the Endless high score tiles would not spawn when switching resolutions ● Fixed a small navigation bug with the Refresh button in the Account screen ● Fixed multiple minor navigation bugs where Controller / Keyboard could conflict with Mouse / Touch input ● Fixed multiple minor navigation bugs where Controller / Keyboard navigation could lock in some edge cases ● Fixed the ‘jitter’ pre-merge bug where we would always pre-merge on the right side before pre-merging on the left side on Controller / Keyboard navigation (if left side merge is active during game) ● Fixed various minor UI-related bugs ● Fixed server side bug that would hide Timed Out games from the client

New Features ● Merge Confirmation: this new setting lets you toggle a ‘safety’ mode, where merges will require an additional input from the player before a merge is final. ● Streamlined Info: the ‘Game Language’ button on the main menu has been replaced with a new ‘Information and Rules’ button: all the relevant information and support regarding Words in Progress in a single place! Endless ● We’ve fixed an issue where exceptionally long games would break our Endless mode in English, Spanish or Portuguese. ● We’ve fixed an issue where large amounts of words created (400+) in Endless mode would break the rendering of the Endless screen/mode. ● Endless leaderboard cap increased from 5,000 to 20,000. Optimisation ● The tutorial got an overhaul with some additional information both in the tutorial itself and on the pause and end screens. ● We’ve adjusted the ‘i’ letter within our font, so the ‘i’ and ‘l’ are now more distinguishable from one another. UI ● An ‘are you sure’ prompt will now be displayed when quitting the game on macOS. ● All GameCenter Access Points are now navigable using controller or keyboard input. ● We overhauled the Friends overlay and the Random Game overlay. ● All scrollbars have been redesigned to be less intrusive. ● Increased the font size in the tutorial, so all tutorial text is more readable. ● The Daily screen now shows the time until the next daily challenge when you’ve finished your current daily challenge. ● Some in-menu texts have been revised so that they are more descriptive. ● Some icons have received a redesign. Wordlist Changes ● The German game language now converts umlauts: ‘ä’ is converted into ‘ae’ (mädchen > maedchen), ‘ö’ is converted into ‘oe’ (schön > schoen), ‘ü’ is converted into ‘ue’ (glücklich > gluecklich) ● Words requested by players have been reviewed and, if found to be safe and valid, added to their respective wordlists. Bug Fixes ● Fixed a problematic bug that would cause an infinite reboot loop. ● Fixed a bug where tiles wouldn’t scale properly when merging with a tile that was animating in. ● Fixed a bug where frame-perfect input would displace tiles during gameplay. ● Fixed a bug where simultaneous controller/keyboard and touch input would interfere with a draggable tile. ● Fixed a server bug where a game would sometimes be deleted when being cancelled. ● Fixed a server bug where the wrong response code would sometimes be returned when a game was cancelled. ● Fixed a mouse-based input delay issue on macOS.

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Version for release

Version for release

- RC fixes