Version 1.5, the ‘less is more’ version comes with plenty of optimizations, and therefore not much new; worse even, the app now actually has less. I cleaned up the start screen. The ‘how to play’ has changed from a big button to an questionmark icon (‘?’) in the top left. The ‘custom game’ option is completely gone. Three options remain: the adventure mode, the daily challenge, and the quick game option.
The daily challenge now gets a stamp once you’ve solved it; you can still play the challenge, but the daily challenge stays the same all day, so now you can see at a glance whether you’ve already done it.
Note: you can set the difficulty of a quick game yourself by clicking the stamp in front of the button. Click the stamp to make the game harder. Keep clicking to cycle back to the easiest level after the hardest one.
The leaderboards have been redesigned. The game now uses your total score to compare your results with the rest of the world. There is a leaderboard for your total score per mode (adventure, daily, quick) and a combined total score.
There are also a few new achievements, and a few bugs have been fixed.

Saturday we had another football match with Alan. Batan played against Viera, one of the best teams. The result: a very tough but brilliant win! We started badly with 0-1, then 0-2, but we fought our way back. 1-2, 2-2, 3-2 (Alan scored), 4-2. Halftime. Then 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5… and right after the equaliser, a goal straight from the kickoff: 6-5. Amazing. The spectators/parents went wild with joy. The kids even got a guard of honour as they left the pitch.
Also, highscores! Now your scores are tracked in the app. For each game type you’ll see the highest score, the number of games played, the win ratio, the time played, and your total score which is all the points added together.
We visited
On the third day we went to the island of La Graciosa, which we had already seen from the viewpoint on our first day. A half-hour boat ride took us there. We bought some sandwiches and rented bikes for a long ride across the island. Getting lost was impossible: there’s only one clear route. At one of the beaches, Alex and I found some salt. It looked surprisingly clean, so I took a little with me to experiment with later. We returned on the last boat of the day and headed back to the villa.
