What’s new

If you play on the iPhone app, you signed in with Apple, and until today that account could not be used on this website at all. It has no username and no password, so there was nothing to type into the sign-in form. Most people playing Six Hunches are in exactly that position.

The sign-in page now has a Sign in with Apple button. It opens the same account you play on your phone — the same ranked history, the same streak, and Pro if you have it. It is not a copy and not a second account: play on your phone or in a browser, and you are one player on the leaderboard either way.

Accounts created here with a username and password are unchanged, and still sign in with the form underneath. The two are separate doors to separate accounts. If you happen to have both, the Apple button opens the phone one, and it does not join the two together — a finished round belongs to the account that played it, and stays there.

The button is Apple’s own now rather than a plain outline, and the page remembers how you came in: whichever of the two ways you used last is marked the next time you visit. It is only a reminder. Both ways in stay exactly where they are, and that note never leaves your own browser.

If you signed in with Apple, My account still offered you Change password, Replace recovery codes, and Add or change email. An account created by signing in with Apple has none of those. It has no password, and all three of those ask you to confirm with the password you do not have, so every one of them was a dead end. The line above them told you to keep recovery codes you were never issued.

It says what is true now. Signing in with Apple again is how you get back in, on this or any other device. There is no password to change, no recovery codes to keep, and no email to add — an address there is only ever used to reset a password, and this kind of account does not have one. Apple sends us an address when you sign in and we do not store it.

Accounts created on this website with a username and password are unchanged and keep all three.

A new Friends page compares today’s card with the people you know, question by question. You see both scores side by side for each of the six, which questions you took off them, and a line saying how it went: “You beat Alice on 3 of 6.” A tie counts for neither of you.

Nobody’s scores appear until you have played today. That is deliberate, not a delay: a friend’s score on a question tells you roughly how close they got, and on a map question that narrows the world to a continent. Play your six first and the comparison is waiting.

You add each other with an eight-character invite code, which you can share from the Friends page or replace at any time. Replacing it stops the old one working. There is no search and no friend-of-a-friend suggestion: the only way to be added is to hand somebody your code.

Later the same day, invite links started carrying the code, so tapping one fills it in for you — and holds onto it while you create an account, instead of leaving you to find the code again afterwards. Nobody is added until you confirm.

Friends is on this website now. It is not in the iPhone app yet; it will arrive in a future version rather than on a date we can promise.

Answering a question used to move straight to the next one. Now the score lands with a reaction scaled to how close you were, the points count up rather than appearing, and a short aside reads underneath — “Close enough for a pub argument,” “An ocean or two out.” The asides are keyed to how close the answer was and to the kind of question, so a near miss is never congratulated and a wrong answer is never scolded.

The aside is also read out by screen readers, which it was not when it first appeared.

The form on Delete your account ran together on one line: each label sat beside its box instead of above it, and the button overlapped the last field. That page had never loaded the stylesheet that lays the form out. On a phone it was worse.

Confirming was almost as quiet. One plain sentence appeared among instructions that still asked you to fill the form in, so it was possible to delete your account and not be sure anything had happened.

Both are fixed. The form reads properly at any width, and once the account is gone the page says so plainly and clears away everything that was asking you to act.

Support said there is no Android app yet, then explained further down how to cancel a subscription bought in one. Terms gave its prices and said payment would be charged to your Google account. Privacy described Google taking the payment and holding your card details, and a Delete account route inside the app.

There is no Android app, so none of that could happen to anybody. It has been taken out. What is left describes this website and the iPhone app, which is all there is. If an Android app arrives, it goes back.

Opening a page drew a thin gold outline around its heading. That is a focus indicator — meant for somebody moving through a page by keyboard, to show where they are — and it was being drawn for everyone, including after an ordinary click.

The heading still takes focus, because that is what tells a screen reader it has arrived somewhere new rather than leaving it on the page you just left. Only the box is gone.

The app stopped rushing you between questions. After each answer the result, the fact and the source stay on screen until you move on yourself, and the finished score card waits for See my card rather than appearing over the question you were still reading.

Shared scores lost the website preview panel that some apps were adding underneath every post, matching what sharing from this website already did.

Six Hunches arrived on the App Store, free, for iPhone and iPad. It needs iOS 26 or later. You can play without an account, sign in with your Apple Account for ranked play and a streak, and subscribe to Pro through the App Store.

Ninety backdated cards were published, covering 1 August to 29 October 2026. They are what Six Hunches Pro opens, alongside every daily card since. Today and the previous seven days stay free for everyone.

Archive cards are scored the same way as the daily one but never count toward rankings or your streak, so you can play an old card without putting anything at risk.

Six Hunches Pro on this website had been limited to a short list of countries. That limit is gone: it is now available anywhere the payment goes through.

Past daily cards became playable. Everyone gets today and the previous seven days; Pro opens the rest. An archive round is scored by the server and clearly marked as unranked.

Subscriptions opened on this website, at $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year, with the first seven days free. You can cancel from the Pro page at any time.

Three screens had been telling people to join a leaderboard they could not see. It is now on the site, readable without an account so you can tell what signing in would be worth, and you can report a display name or hide a player from your own board.

A stats page for signed-in players: completed rounds, average score, personal best, current and best streak, how you do by category, and the last seven days. The server had been keeping all of it and never showed it to anyone.

Streaks follow New York dates, and an unfinished today does not break a streak that ended yesterday.

Finishing the sixth question now produces a result card: your score out of 6,000, the six coloured squares, and a share button that copies a spoiler-free grid. It carries no answers and no prompts, so posting it cannot ruin the card for whoever reads it.

Account deletion moved out of email and into the product. It signs out every device, takes your display name off the leaderboard and removes your stored email addresses.

Pro prices are shown to everyone rather than hidden behind signing in; the sign-in prompt now comes when you tap a plan. The question card’s main button and the year label were corrected.

Shared scores lost the website link that some apps were turning into a large preview panel underneath every post. The world map can be panned at its starting zoom, which it previously refused to do. Heading outlines were brought into the gold palette so keyboard focus is visible without looking out of place.

The difference between a ranked round and a guest round is now stated where it matters rather than left to be discovered. Guest rounds are scored by the server but do not count toward rankings, and signing in afterwards does not import them.

Every revealed answer has a way to report it, with the edition and question already filled in. Reporting does not change a locked answer or a past score; it informs future questions.

The number steppers and the map gestures were made deliberate rather than twitchy, the daily entry buttons were balanced, and their labels centre properly. The sample round moved out of the main navigation into Help, where it stops competing with the real card.

One card a day, six questions, up to 1,000 points each. Place a pin on a map, pick a year, or estimate a number; close counts for partial credit. The daily date follows New York time.

Optional, and only needed for ranked play, a streak and history across devices. Accounts use a username and password rather than an email address, with one-time recovery codes, so you can play without handing over an inbox.