Best Hit&Blow Ever

Version 2.0 is fully in English and adds 16 achievements, an illustrated how-to, and shapes for telling planets apart without color. Your clear history carries over.

Guess the line-up of planets. 8 tries.

A hidden code of planets is waiting. Pick a planet for each slot, submit, and the only thing you get back is a row of stars. Everything else you work out yourself.

HOW THE STARS WORK

• A filled star means one planet is in the right place • An outlined star means one planet is in the code but somewhere else • The stars never tell you which planet they refer to

That last point is the whole game. Two stars can mean several different things, and narrowing it down is the work.

3 SIZES OF PROBLEM

• Easy — 5 planets, 3 slots • Medium — 6 planets, 4 slots • Hard — 7 planets, 5 slots

8 guesses on all three. There is also a switch for repeats: turn it on and the same planet can appear more than once in the code, which takes away the assumption most people lean on without noticing.

7 PLANETS

Mars, Neptune, Earth, Saturn, Pluto, Jupiter and Uranus.

16 ACHIEVEMENTS

Clear your first game, then 10, then 100. Clear every difficulty. Solve in 4 guesses, then in 3. Beat the clock — under 45 seconds on Easy, 75 on Medium, 120 on Hard. Win with repeats turned on. Beat your own best time.

IF COLORS ARE HARD TO TELL APART

Each planet can carry its own shape — triangle, square, diamond, star, hexagon, pentagon, drop — so you never have to rely on color. The illustrated how-to updates the moment you switch it on, so you learn the game the way you are going to play it.

LEARN IT IN 8 PAGES

The how-to walks through a real board: what a hit looks like, what a blow looks like, and a worked example with the counts explained. The figures are drawn with the same pieces the game uses and the counts come from the same rules, so what you see there is what you get in play.

WHAT THE APP REMEMBERS

Every clear is kept with its difficulty, time and number of guesses. Your best time for each difficulty and your total number of clears are shown in Settings, and the full list is there too.

A NUDGE EACH MORNING

An optional reminder at 8:00. Turn it off with one tap.

NO ACCOUNT

No sign-in, no sync service, no server. Your records are stored on your device.

ALREADY PLAYING?

Your clear history carries over untouched, and achievements unlock retroactively from games you have already won — so if you have cleared thirty, several unlock the first time you open this version.

The app is free and shows a banner ad. A full-screen ad appears when you leave a result screen, though not every time.