Puzzle Moment

Puzzle Moment is a daily puzzle app made for e-readers with an e-ink screen, such as the Boox. On an ordinary phone or tablet you get the same puzzles.

The first time you open it, you pick your screen: black-and-white e-ink, colour e-ink or a normal colour screen. On e-ink, animations are off, because anything that moves there flickers. On a normal colour screen the board lies on the page like a sheet of paper, and what you fill in takes the game's colour. Under Look you choose New or Classic, the earlier look, and under Board games you can also pick Real material: wood, green felt, the blue frame of Connect Four or the water of Sea Battle. The clock runs for the leaderboard but only appears on screen if you want it to.

Number puzzles
Classic Sudoku comes in seventeen variants every day, from 4×4 to 12×12. There are also Sudoku X, Killer Sudoku, Binary Sudoku, Nonogram, Kakuro (sums in a grid), Number Search and Number Path.
- Futoshiki, with < and > signs between the squares.
- Hitori: shade squares until no number shows twice in a row or column.
- In Tectonic every block holds the digits 1 up to its size.
- Fleet Review is Sea Battle as a logic puzzle. In Rain Well you work out the height of the walls from the rainwater between them.
The computer has checked every logic puzzle in advance. You never need to guess.

Cards and board games
In Klondike Solitaire and FreeCell the computer has played every daily deal through beforehand, so each one can be won. In Crazy Eights you choose one to three computer opponents. Draughts (on a 10×10 board), Nine Men's Morris, Mancala, Connect Four, Reversi and Sea Battle are against the computer too, and the more stars, the stronger it plays.

Other games
Mahjong Solitaire, Peg Solitaire, Sliding Puzzle, Tents and Trees, Memory, Tower of Hanoi, Lights Out, Secret Code, Merge (2048), Pipes, Block Pop, the Dice Game and Chess Puzzle, with a mate in one or two every day. In Way Out you slide blocks aside until the marked one can leave. In Order is a game of our own: the numbers arrive one at a time and you place them in a grid that has to keep ascending.

Word puzzles
There are no English word puzzles at the moment. The puzzle language is a separate setting, though, so if you read Dutch, German, French, Spanish or Polish you can switch. Dutch has Word Search, Fill-In, Knight's Jump, Word Maker and Letter Grid; the other four have all of those except Fill-In. Word Maker and Letter Grid are free in full, leaderboard included.

What is free
Today's puzzles are always free. The Dice Game, Crazy Eights, Draughts, Nine Men's Morris, Mancala, Connect Four and Reversi are not tied to a day: start a new game as often as you like, no Extra needed.

Puzzle Moment Extra
Extra is a subscription. It opens the puzzles of earlier days, lets you practise with as many extra number puzzles and games as you like and puts you on the leaderboards. Anyone can look at those. My records keeps your best times and scores, and linked devices share your progress. The next two weeks of puzzles are stored on your device ahead of time, for days without internet.

Without a connection you carry on with whatever is already on your device, and your progress goes to the server once you are back online. You do not need an account or an email address, only a screen name. There are no ads in the app.

Text size goes from 85% to 175% and boards can be zoomed. If the selected square is hard to see, give it a thicker outline. TalkBack reads out squares and buttons.

Recent changes:
Improvements and bug fixes.

You can read exactly what is new in the app itself, under "New in this update".