Games, streaks and family scores

Every Qbit game lives together on one page. You’ll find daily puzzles to play on your own, a board game against Qbit, and a few games she hosts for you right in chat.

1. Tap "Games" in the bar along the bottom of the screen.
2. The hub opens with three sections: "Self-Play & Compete Against Qbit", "Play with Qbit", and "Qbit Creates You Host".
3. Tap any game card to start playing.
4. When you’re done, tap the back arrow at the top left of the game to head back to the hub.

• Got "Play Games" as one of the folders on your Home page? Tap that card and you’ll land here too.
• Everyone in the family finds the Games tab in the same spot along the bottom.

Four of the games hand the whole family the exact same board each day. So you can compare scores over dinner and have a friendly argument about who got it fastest.

1. Open "Games" and tap "Category-Connect", "Word Ladder", "Memory Match" or "Sudoku".
2. Play today’s board.
3. Come back tomorrow for a brand new one. Today’s board stays put all day.

• Even the tile shuffle matches for everybody, so nobody gets an easier layout.
• It makes a lovely little family ritual. One puzzle, four people, one winner.

Good to know: Good to know: each of these four is one round a day. Open it again after you finish and you’ll see the same puzzle waiting. Tic-Tac-Toe is the one with a "Play Again" button.

Sixteen tiles are hiding four secret groups of four, and your job is to work out what belongs with what. It’s the kind of puzzle that looks obvious right up until it isn’t.

1. Open "Games" and tap "Category-Connect".
2. Tap four tiles you think belong together. Tap a tile again to unpick it.
3. Tap "Submit group".
4. If you’re right, the four tiles lock into a coloured band at the top with the category name.
5. Find all four groups to win. Four wrong guesses ends the round and reveals the groups you missed.

• Start with the group you’re surest about. The tiles left behind get easier to read.
• Scores run from 0 to 130. Fewer mistakes and less time score higher.
• Run out of guesses and you still keep 10 points for every group you found.

You get a start word, an end word, and a few blank rungs in between. Each rung changes exactly one letter from the word above it, and every blank comes with its own clue to help you along.

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1. Open "Games" and tap "Word Ladder".
2. Read the clue under a blank rung and type your word into the box.
3. Fill in as many rungs as you can work out.
4. Tap "Check answers".
5. Right answers lock in as solid words. Wrong ones flash, clear themselves and add to your mistake count.
6. Keep going until every rung is filled and the ladder is complete.

• Blanks don’t count against you, so check a couple of rungs and come back for the rest whenever you like.
• Working from both ends towards the middle often cracks it faster than going top to bottom.
• Only filled-in wrong answers count as mistakes, and there’s no way to lose. The worst that happens is a lower score.

Flip two cards, find the pair, repeat until the board is clear. The deck gets a fresh theme every day, so it feels new each time you sit down to play.

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1. Open "Games" and tap "Memory Match".
2. Tap a card to flip it over, then tap a second card.
3. If the two match, they stay face up. If they don’t, both flip back after a moment.
4. Match every pair to finish the board.

• Your moves and pairs found sit right above the grid, so you can see how you’re doing as you go.
• This one is genuinely lovely for younger children, and quietly ruthless for the rest of us.
• The score rewards fewer moves and a quicker finish, so a steady memory beats wild tapping.

You play as X, and Qbit answers with her little creature mark. She plays a proper game, taking a win when she sees one and blocking yours, and yes, she can be beaten.

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1. Open "Games" and tap "Tic-Tac-Toe".
2. Tap an empty square to place your X. Qbit plays back straight away.
3. Keep going until somebody wins or the board fills up.
4. On the results screen, tap "Play Again" for a rematch.

• She likes the centre and the corners, so grab them before she does.
• It’s the one game you can play over and over in a day, which makes it perfect for a long car journey.

Good to know: Good to know: a win scores 130, a draw 75 and a loss 40. A draw or a loss still counts as a day played, it just won’t push your win streak any higher.

A full 9x9 Sudoku, with one fresh puzzle every day. A wrong number turns red the moment you enter it, so you always know exactly where to look.

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1. Open "Games" and tap "Sudoku".
2. Tap an empty square to select it. The numbers printed at the start are locked, so they can’t be tapped.
3. Tap a number from 1 to 9 on the keypad under the grid.
4. To clear the square you’re on, tap the backspace key.
5. Keep filling squares until the whole grid is right. The mistake counter under the grid keeps track of wrong entries.

• A red number is a nudge, not a wall. Fix it and carry on.
• Because wrong numbers show up straight away, this makes a lovely first Sudoku for anyone who’s never tried one, kids included.
• Mistakes cost points but never stop you. Each one takes off 7 points, up to a limit of 12, and the clock takes off 3 points a minute, up to 12 minutes. The puzzle completes the moment every square is correct.

That little flame with a number on a game card is your run of days in a row solving that game. Each game keeps its own flame, and it’s surprisingly motivating to watch them climb.

1. Open "Games".
2. Look at the right side of any game card. The flame and number is your current run for that game.
3. Solve that game today to add another day.
4. At the end of a round, the results screen shows "Score" and "Day streak" side by side.

• Miss a day and the flame starts again at 1 the next time you solve it, so a fresh start is always one puzzle away.
• Five games means five separate flames. Some households find one game everybody keeps going together.

Good to know: Good to know: flames live on the device you played on, so a phone and a laptop each keep their own. And since the flame counts solves, a Tic-Tac-Toe draw or loss won’t add to it.

One glance at the Games page shows you what’s still waiting. Finished games wear a star and today’s score, and everything else still says "Play".

1. Open "Games".
2. Any card showing a star and a number is a game you’ve already finished today, and the number is today’s score.
3. Any card still showing "Play" is one you haven’t done yet.

• Stars live on the device you played on, so what you see is your own round, not your child’s.
• Once every card shows a star, the day’s puzzles are done and tomorrow brings new ones.

Finish any Self-Play game and you get a little celebration: your score, your streak, a bit of encouragement, and buttons to share it or go again.

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1. Finish any game in the Self-Play section.
2. Read the "Score" and "Day streak" tiles at the top.
3. Tap "Share" to send your score to someone, "Play Again" for another go (Tic-Tac-Toe only), or "Back to Games" to return to the hub.

• Scores are out of 130 across every game, so a Sudoku and a Word Ladder compare fairly.
• The encouragement line changes every time, a small touch that kids really notice.

Beaten your own record, or your teenager’s? The share button writes the message for you, with the game, your score and your streak already in it.

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1. Finish a game.
2. Tap "Share" on the results screen.
3. Pick "Messages", "Mail" or "Copy" in the share sheet that appears.
4. Send it wherever you like from there.

• "Copy" is handy if your family chat lives somewhere else. Paste it straight in.
• Because the message is written for you, sharing a score takes no typing at all.
• No share sheet on your device? Qbit copies the message to your clipboard and lets you know on screen.

One page shows how you’re doing across all five games: your best score ever, your current run, how many days you’ve played, and whether you’re getting better.

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1. Open "Games".
2. Tap "My progress", the button under the "Self-Play & Compete Against Qbit" heading.
3. Read the card for each of the five games.
4. Tap the back arrow at the top left to head back to the hub.

• Once you’ve played a game four rounds or more, you’ll get a small chip saying "Improving", "Steady" or "A bit off lately".
• The line at the foot of the page tells you what you’re looking at: "Synced across your devices" or "Tracked on this device". The page appears instantly from your device, then quietly pulls in your scores from anywhere else you play.

Good to know: Good to know: the "Streak" number here counts every day you played, whatever the result. That’s on purpose, and it’s why it can differ from the win streak flame on the game cards.

Some games need nothing but a good conversation. Qbit runs these with you right in chat, and she kicks things off the moment you tap the card.

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1. Open "Games" and scroll down to "Play with Qbit".
2. Tap "20 Questions", "Trivia by Topic", "Riddles" or "Story-Building".
3. Qbit takes you into the chat and asks the first question herself.
4. Just keep replying in the chat. There’s no board and no score to keep track of, just the game.

• Story-Building is a lovely one to do out loud together at bedtime, taking turns to answer.
• You can steer any of them mid-game. Ask for harder trivia or a different topic, and she’ll follow your lead.

Good to know: Good to know: these are regular chat conversations, so there’s no streak, score or "Play Again" button. On a child account, they get the same child protection checks as every other question your child asks.

Here’s a game where Qbit does the writing and you get to be the host. Tap the card and she starts building a ten clue scavenger hunt out of things already around your house.

1. Open "Games" and scroll to the bottom section, "Qbit Creates You Host".
2. Tap "Scavenger Hunt".
3. Qbit opens the chat and starts writing the hunt for you.
4. Ask for changes right there in the chat until it suits your family. Harder clues, outdoors, more clues, whatever you need.

• Tell her how old the children are and she’ll pitch the clues just right.
• It’s a rainy Saturday rescued in about thirty seconds, which is the whole point.
• Copy the hunt out, or keep the chat open while you run it.