2026-10-29New game: Unbolted, a layered screw puzzle
Unbolted adds a different kind of puzzle to the catalogue: a stack of metal plates screwed together at overlapping points, where every screw clamps the plates beneath it and can only leave the board when nothing covers its head. Thirty levels ramp from flat boards to a dozen buried layers, the tray punishes the wrong order, and a fresh board is published every day - the same one for every player, with a streak counter. Every level, including the daily one, is verified solvable before it reaches the page.
2026-10-28The homepage now starts with three playable games
On a phone the first game used to sit almost a thousand pixels down the page, below the headline and an advert. The hero has been compressed and a Start here row now leads with the three games people played most this week, so something playable is on screen the moment the page opens. The full catalogue, daily puzzles and everything else are unchanged below.
2026-10-26Board and two-player games now live in one place
The old collection pages duplicated the games hub, so they have been retired. Connect Four, Reversi, Solitaire, Checkers, Mancala, Dots and Boxes, Battleship, Tic-Tac-Toe, Table Tennis, Air Hockey, Reaction Duel and Gearbloom now sit together in the classic games section, and every old link redirects to the right place.
2026-10-25Table Tennis and Air Hockey got a computer opponent
Both games can now be played against the computer, with two-player mode still available on a shared keyboard. The scoring bug in Connect Four was fixed in the same pass, and Checkers now highlights which pieces are actually allowed to move.
2026-10-25Printable Battleship and Checkers boards
Two new printable sheets are available in the printables section - a Battleship grid to play with a friend and a Checkers board that fits on a single sheet of paper. Both are free to print at home or in a classroom.
2026-10-25Minesweeper guide: deduce instead of guess
The Minesweeper page now has a full deduction guide - how to read a number, when to open a corner first, and how to use the minimum-information method on large boards. It is the longest guide we have written for a single game.
2026-10-24Fixed: Solitaire dealt duplicate cards
Moving a stack of cards in Solitaire left the extra cards behind and copied the whole stack to the destination, which meant a game could end up with more than 52 cards. The move logic now takes the whole stack, and every game is verified to deal a unique deck.
2026-10-24Mobile: the whole game now fits on one screen
On a phone the game used to start below the title and run past the bottom of the screen, so you had to scroll to see the board. The header is now compact on small screens and the player is sized to the viewport - the full game is visible before you scroll.
2026-10-22Rope Snack grew to 12 levels
Four new levels, a running star total and a badge for three-star clears. Every level was checked with a solver to confirm a three-star solution exists, and the swing levels were retuned so the timing window is fair on a phone.
2026-10-21Search and social housekeeping
Sitemap dates are now accurate per page, the embeddable game pages are marked as duplicates so they do not compete with the pages you actually read, and the site logo is available as a square image for anyone writing about PlayBolt.
2026-10-20New: Rope Snack and Life Replay
Rope Snack is a physics puzzle about cutting ropes to drop a sunberry into a hungry blob, with twelve levels and three stars each. Life Replay is a text life simulator: spend twenty points, draw a talent, then live one year per click through 113 events and a hidden cultivation path.
2026-10-20Printables, embed codes and a press kit
The printables section, a public embed directory with a copyable snippet for every game, a machine-readable game feed and a press page with screenshots and facts are all live. If you want to write about a game or embed one on your own site, start at the embed directory.
2026-10-19PlayBolt opens with its first browser games
The first version shipped six categories of browser games, every one playable with no account and no download. The catalogue has grown since, and this page keeps the record of what changed and when.