✨ New Features
Survival Mode — a brand new way to play (Single Player, for now)
• The board starts nearly empty and tiles keep feeding in from the bottom, pushing everything upward — the longer you last, the higher the pressure. Let the stack reach the top row and you're in the danger zone.
• Three bonus tiles keep it from being pure survival: Wipe (an instant board-clear charge you bank and spend when things get hairy), Extra Flip (a free board flip), and Wildcard (pick your own letter, use it in a word for a bonus).
• Available now in Single Player, with its own mode-picker card and adjustable difficulty presets.
• Daily Challenge and Face-Off support are already built and on the way — we're starting with Single Player only so we can make sure it's rock solid before opening it up further. Once we're confident it's stable:
Face-Off (all modes)
• Accepting an invite or entering a private code now actually tells you which Face-Off mode you're joining and shows its real settings, instead of a blank or generic screen.
• Private invites list now shows 6 at a time instead of 4.
• A round of visual polish — Classic, Time Attack, and Bonanza each now show their own color on the Start Game/Create Private buttons and in the match feed, instead of one generic color for everything.
General
• Refreshed the game's letter mix based on real board data — R and U show up a little less often, E and S a bit more. Boards should feel slightly more natural as a result.
• Flying score after you submit a word. It's color-coded by how big the word was: green under 100, blue for 100-299, purple for 300-499, and gold for 500+.
Help Center
• Added Tiebreaker explanations for Face-Off, Versus, and Multiplayer Party, so it's clear how ties get broken in each.
Login
• Login sessions now last 30 days across every sign-in method (password, Google, Microsoft) — fewer surprise sign-outs during normal play.
🐛 Bug Fixes
Face-Off (general)
• Fixed a rare issue where an active game could show a false sign-out error and disconnect you mid-match. If this happened to you recently, we're sorry — reach out via Feedback if anything from that game still looks off and we'll sort it out directly.
• Fixed the challenge details popup for a 2-player private match sometimes showing only one of the two players, with the other folded into a vague "+1 more player" line instead of showing both head-to-head.
• Fixed that same popup sometimes listing two tied players in the wrong order — it now breaks ties correctly, matching the same rule the final results always used.
Survival
• Fixed an issue where news you'd already read — articles and the "What's New" popup — could show up as unread again after logging out and back in.
🐞 Found a problem? Tell us
Survival is brand new this release, and Face-Off got a round of fixes too — if anything looks wrong, feels off, or doesn't behave the way you'd expect, please send us a feedback ticket rather than letting it slide.
You'll find it under Feedback in your user menu. A couple of things that make a report far quicker for us to act on:
• Attach a screenshot — there's a button right in the form.
• Tell us which difficulty preset you were playing.
• Roughly when it happened, so we can find it in the logs.
Once you've sent it, you can follow it under "My Reports" in the same place — you'll see the status change as we work on it, along with a reply from us. No GitHub account needed.
Survival reports go straight to the top of the pile this week.
— LexiLayers Team
