How fair play works in Fair Square
Short answer
Fair Square deals pieces from a random seed and the board, never from your score, spending, ads, device or country. Before a score reaches a leaderboard, the server replays every move of that game.
What decides your pieces
Each game starts from a seed, a number that sets up its random sequence. In Chill and Blast, the game also looks at the board. In the Daily board, pieces come from the day’s seed alone. Nothing else goes in.
| Input | Used? |
|---|---|
| Random seed | Yes |
| The board | Yes, in Chill and Blast |
| Your score or how close you are to a record | No |
| Money you’ve spent | No |
| Ads you’ve watched | No |
| Your device or country | No |
What each mode guarantees
The guarantee differs by mode, because a preview can only be honest if the next pieces can’t change.
| Mode | Guarantee | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| Chill | Every tray can be fully placed | The game checks each tray fits in some order. If it doesn’t, it redraws. After 50 tries it falls back to the smallest pieces that fit. |
| Blast | Your preview is true | A tray is chosen when it enters the preview and never changes after that, so a tray can still fail to fit. |
| Daily board | Same pieces for everyone | The list is fixed from the day’s seed, whatever you play. Only skill separates scores. |
| Journey | Every level can be won | A test bot beats every level before it ships. |
Helpful pieces in Chill
Chill has an optional Helpful pieces slider with four levels: Off, Light, Balanced and Strong. Higher levels choose trays that flow better and include bigger pieces. It uses only the random seed, the board and your chosen level, so it stays the same for the whole game and never reacts to your score. Leaderboards are kept separately for each level.
Was this solvable?
After a game of Chill ends, you can tap “Was this solvable?”. The game replays the board from when your last tray was dealt and shows one way all three pieces could have fit. It never shows hints during play.
How leaderboard scores are checked
- You start a game online, and the server gives it a seed.
- When you finish, your moves are sent to the server.
- The server replays every move on its own copy of the game.
- If the replayed score doesn’t match, the score is rejected.
- Only a verified score reaches the leaderboard.
There are no bots and no filler players. If you revive, only your score from before the revive counts. Games played offline count for your Personal Records only.
Learn more
See the rules and scoring or the Fair Square page.
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