Rob the Phone: Safe Cracker

Now on iPad too. One heist, six nights: crack safes by ear, freeze when the guard looks, force a jammed door, shake off the police. On iPhone Duo the hinge is the dial.

The phone is the dial. Open and close it to turn, listen as the dial gets louder, and hold still on the click. Three numbers open a safe. The alarm is counting.

Made for iPhone Duo. On any other iPhone, or on iPad, tilt it instead: lay it flat and lift the top edge.

• The story: one heist over six nights, room by room. Beat a keypad and a lock, crack the safe, slip through the lasers, freeze in the guard's torch, lever a jammed door, grab the loot, then lose the patrol car on the way out. • The first safe shows its numbers. From the second on they are hidden: you find them by ear, and by the tumblers you feel in the last ten degrees. • Fourteen more ways in, each a heist of its own. With the hinge: the job, by ear, no way back, the big job, lasers, the guard, from memory, set your watches, on tiptoe, the crowbar. Steered by tilting, like a wheel: the getaway. With your fingers: the lockpick, the keypad, the loot. • Try before you pay: the first night is free, as often as you like, and every other way in has one free go. A single purchase opens the rest for good. No subscription. • A ledger of every job: the combination and the loot of each safe. • Close the phone to lie low, or tap pause. The alarm waits until you are back. • Best with headphones, at night. • Leaves no trace: no ads, no sign-in. Scores and progress stay on the phone; only a purchase is checked online.

The safe opens with the hinge, not with your fingers.