Plain and Simple Games

30+ games. No ads, nothing to download after you install it. Sudoku, Solitaire, Free Cell, Spider, Mahjong, American Mahjong, Minesweeper, Crossword, Word Search, Five in Six, Bridges, Loop, Cross Sums, Five Dice, Colour Sort, Parking Lot, Nonogram, Connect, 2048, Block Fit, Stack, Echo, Twin, Span, Places, Four Up, Dots and Boxes, Match Up, Low Twelve, Navigating the USA, Cross Off, Three Streets, Fifty Plates, Depot, Pin Tray, Chess, Checkers, Paddle, Star Guard, Noodle. WHY THIS EXISTS The usual ways of making an app pay for itself are the same things that make apps unpleasant. Ads need your attention. Subscriptions need you locked in. So this one doesn't. No advertisements, no purchases, no subscription, no "watch a video for a hint", no account required, and nothing about you collected. No analytics, and no third-party code in it at all. NOTHING HERE NEEDS A LUCKY GUESS Minesweeper, nonograms and bridges are each worked through before you are given them, using only the moves a person actually makes. Any board that would come down to a coin flip is thrown away and another grown. If you are stuck, there is always a deduction to find. SUDOKU Four difficulties, and the labels mean something: each puzzle is solved the way a person would, technique by technique, and labelled by the work that took. Pencil marks, unlimited undo, an optional timer, and a hint that explains the next step in plain English. FIVE IN SIX Guess the five-letter word in six tries. Everyone gets the same word each day, worked out from the date on your own device, so it works with no signal. Tiles use colour and shape together, so the board reads if you can't tell green from yellow. CHESS The real game, with every rule: castling, en passant, promotion, check, checkmate, stalemate, and the drawn games. Play the device at one of four levels, share one device with a friend, or play on two devices, each person on their own. Nobody wins by losing their connection. No clocks. ARCADE Three quick games with a bit of speed. Paddle: keep the ball in play, two players or three speeds against the device, first to seven. Star Guard: slide your ship along the bottom and clear the rows of angular shapes before they reach you. Noodle: steer a growing noodle round a wide arena, eat the glowing pellets and keep clear of the bots. Each remembers your best. Short sounds play on these three only, they stay quiet when your phone is on Silent, and one switch in Settings turns them off. AND MORE Klondike solitaire and Free Cell, draw one or draw three where it applies, with an honest "no moves left". Spider with one, two or four suits. Loop and Cross Sums, each board proved to have exactly one answer. Echo, Twin and Span. A crossword a day, clues written by hand. Five dice, colour sort, a car park a day, nonograms, connect, 2048 and block fit. Mahjong with every board clearable, Word Search with hand-written grids, Bridges, Stack, where a shape falls down a well and a full row clears. American Mahjong for four, with three players run by the device. And nine two-player games that share one iPad. YOUR SHELF Hide any game you don’t play; stats stay. A scorecard sits behind all 30+ games: streaks, best and average times, and a calendar of the days you played. ON YOUR DEVICES Your stats and half-finished games follow you to your iPad on their own, through your own iCloud. They don't pass through a Plain and Simple server, because there isn't one. Four Up, Dots and Boxes, Low Twelve and Chess can also be played on two devices in the same room (iOS 26 or later). One person hosts and reads out four digits, the other types them in. The devices talk directly to each other; no account, no server, nothing goes to the internet. Sign in with Apple is optional and separate, and asks Apple for no name and no email. PLAIN AND SIMPLE Small apps that do one thing, and don't ask for anything. [email protected]