Fair Square questions

Fair Square is a block puzzle game for Android and iOS, made by Windowseat Games, an independent studio in Pakistan. You drag pieces onto an 8×8 board and clear full rows and columns. It has four modes: Chill, Blast, Daily board and Journey.

You get three pieces at a time and place each one on empty cells. Pieces can’t be rotated. Any full row or column clears, and three new pieces arrive once all three are placed. The game ends when none of your pieces fit.

Yes, Fair Square is free to play. It shows ads at the end of a run or between levels, and a one-time Remove Ads purchase takes away interstitial and banner ads.

Yes. All solo modes play fully offline. You only need a connection for online features such as leaderboards. If you play the Daily board offline, it’s practice and isn’t ranked.

No email or password is needed. The game creates an anonymous player account with an automatic display name, which you can change once a week.

Fair Square has four themes: Candy Arcade, Cozy Paper, Minimal and Wooden Zen. It also has a colorblind mode, a reduce motion setting and text size settings.

No. Pieces come only from a random seed and the board. Your score, your spending, the ads you watch, your device and your country play no part.

In Chill, yes: every tray dealt can be fully placed in some order. Blast and Daily board work differently. Each tray is locked in and shown ahead of time, so a tray can fail to fit, but you can see it coming and plan with the hold slot.

After a game of Chill ends, one tap replays your last tray and shows a way all three pieces could have fit. The game never gives hints during play.

Yes. There are no bots or filler players. When you finish a game, the server replays every move from that game’s seed, and a score that doesn’t match is rejected.

Only the score you had before reviving counts for leaderboards. Anything you score after a revive is for fun and your personal records, and the game tells you this when you revive.

Chill is the classic endless game with no power-ups. Blast adds gems, same-colour line bonuses, Fever Blasts, the Golden Round and a preview of your next tray.

Everyone gets the same pieces each day, for up to 20 trays. You get one counted attempt with no revives, and your score is compared with a par score.

Journey is the story mode. Each level you win paints part of a famous public-domain masterpiece, across 10 worlds and 163 levels. Finishing a painting plays its animated story and adds it to your gallery.

You can retry for free as many times as you like, and after five failed attempts you can skip that tile. You can also watch an ad to continue a level, which limits that win to one star.

Only at the end of a run or between levels, never during play. There’s no ad after the Daily board.

No. Nothing limits how much you play or makes you wait.

No. Purchases and ads have no effect on which pieces you’re dealt.

An anonymous player account, your scores, game runs and replays for leaderboards, and anonymous gameplay events on our own server. Ads are served by Google AdMob, and purchases are handled by Google Play or Apple, so we never see your card details.

Open Settings in the game and choose “Delete my online data”. This removes your account, profile, runs and events.

No. Fair Square is not directed at children.