Support

Getting in touch

Email zidaanthebeast@gmail.com. Please include your watch model and watchOS version — Settings › General › About on the watch — as most problems turn out to be specific to a screen size.

How to play

Making a move

The pieces you can move carry a blue ring. Tap one to pick it up, and the squares it can reach appear as blue dots. Tap a dot to move there. Taps snap to the nearest legal square, so they do not have to be precise.

To put a piece back down, tap it again or use the Cancel button.

Jumping

Captures are compulsory in English draughts. If any jump is available anywhere on the board, it is the only kind of move allowed — this is why a piece sometimes refuses to pick up. The status line reads Must jump when this is happening, and a red × marks the piece a jump would take.

Multi-jumps

Tap out a chain one hop at a time. The piece moves to each landing square and waits for the next tap. A chain cannot be abandoned partway through — Cancel starts it over. The whole chain counts as a single move, so Undo takes all of it back at once.

Kings

A man reaching the far row is crowned and can then move and capture backwards as well as forwards. Being crowned ends the turn, even mid-chain.

Common questions

Nothing appeared on my iPhone.

That is expected. Wrist Checkers is a watch-only app. It installs on the watch and has no iPhone counterpart.

A piece will not pick up.

Almost always the forced-capture rule: if a jump exists somewhere, no other piece may move. Look for the red × marking a capture, or the Must jump status.

Can I undo the opponent's move?

Undo steps back to the start of your previous turn, taking the engine's reply with it. It is available whenever it is your move.

Will it lose my game if I close it?

No. The position is saved automatically after every move. Reopen the app and choose Resume.

The opponent is too strong or too weak.

Start a new game and pick a different level. Easy looks about one exchange ahead and will let things slip; Hard searches deep and punishes loose pieces. The difficulty applies to the game you start, not retroactively.

Is my data collected?

No. The app has no network access at all. See the privacy policy.