Sports games live or die on the feel of a swipe. Puzzles live or die on whether the logic is fair. Game Collection now has five new sports games, six new puzzles and two new word games, and every one of them plays with no internet.
Here is how each one works, including the small details that decide whether you win.
Sports games
Pool Hall
Eight-ball with the proper rules. Drag on the table to aim, and the guide shows the ghost ball at first contact and where each ball will go. Pull the power slider down and let go. Pot a ball to claim solids or stripes, clear your group, then pot the 8. Each shot must hit your group first and send a ball to a rail or a pocket. A foul hands the other player the cue ball anywhere on the table, and potting the 8 early, or scratching on it, loses the game.
Tap the spin ball by the slider: top rolls on, bottom draws back, and sides change the angle off the rails. Play Lumi AI on three levels, or a friend.
Penalty Shootout
Five kicks each, alternating, with sudden death if it stays level. Swipe up from the ball to shoot. The line of your swipe sets the direction, a faster flick goes higher and harder, and too hard flies over the bar. Bend the swipe to curve it. When you keep goal, swipe or tap as the taker strikes the ball. Go too early and Lumi AI can place it the other way. There is also a practice mode, and a two-player mode where you pass the phone.
Strike Lane
Ten-pin bowling with real scoring: 10 frames, up to 2 balls a frame, a strike worth 10 plus your next 2 balls, a spare worth 10 plus your next ball, and fill balls in the 10th. Drag sideways to set your position on the foul line, then swipe up. A swipe that bows out to one side puts hook on the ball so it curves back late. Aim just to one side of the head pin. Play solo, against Lumi AI, or with a friend.
Hoop Shots
Swipe up and let go inside the green band on the power bar. Your swipe’s height sets the arc and its direction sets the aim. A swish scores 3, a bank shot or a rim-in scores 2, and three makes in a row raises your multiplier. Timed gives you 60 seconds with a hoop that starts sliding as you score. Three Lives ends after three misses, and the green band shrinks with every make. Duel is five rounds of three shots against Lumi AI.
Archery
Drag to pull the bow to full draw, keep your finger down to move the sight, and lift to release. Your breathing moves the sight, so shoot when the breath ring turns green. Hold too long and your arms start to shake. Check the flag and the wind number and aim into the wind: the further the target, the more it pushes the arrow.
Tournament is 24 arrows at 18, 30, 50 and 70 metres. Duel is sets of 3 at 70 metres against Lumi AI, first to 6 set points, and at 5-5 one arrow decides it. There is a Daily Wind Challenge as well.
Puzzles
Mahjong Solitaire
Tap two matching free tiles to remove them and clear all 144. A tile is free when nothing sits on it and its left or right side is open. Free tiles look bright and blocked ones dim, so you can read the board at a glance. Any season matches any season, and any flower matches any flower. Eight layouts run from Easy to Expert, among them Stepping Stones, Bamboo Grove, Twin Gates and Cloud Summit. If you get stuck, Hint shows a good pair and Shuffle re-deals the tiles so you can still finish.
Killer Sudoku
Normal Sudoku rules, plus dashed cages with a total in the corner. The digits in a cage must add up to that total, and no digit can repeat inside it. The bar under the board lists the digit sets that still fit the selected cage. The most useful trick is that every row, column and box adds up to 45, so a cell poking out of a group of cages can often be worked out by subtraction. Levels run up to Expert, and a new Daily arrives every day.
Kakuro
A crossword made of sums. Fill every white cell with 1 to 9. Each black cell gives the total of the run going across, upper right, and the run going down, lower left. A digit can appear only once in a run. Every puzzle has exactly one solution and can be solved without guessing. Start with runs that have only one possible set, like 3 in 2 or 4 in 2. Grids grow from 7 by 7 on Easy to 11 by 11 on Hard, and there is a Daily.
Bridges
Each island shows how many bridges it needs. Bridges run straight between neighbouring islands, up to two between any pair, and they cannot cross. Drag from island to island to add one. An island turns green when its count is right and red when it has too many. To win, every island must be satisfied and all of them joined into one network.
Tangram
Drag seven pieces from the tray to fill a dark shape exactly, using all of them with no overlaps. Tap a piece to turn it 45 degrees, and flip the parallelogram with the Flip button or a double tap. Place the two large triangles first, because they settle most of the shape. Finish fast for up to three stars. Each hint shows one piece’s outline and costs a star.
Pipe Connect
Every tile is fixed in place, and tapping one turns it clockwise. Water runs from the amber source through every joined pipe, and red dots show where it spills. You finish when every tile sits in one network with no open ends and no loops. Hold a tile to lock it. In Wrap mode, pipes can leave one edge and come back on the opposite one. Choose levels, a Daily or free play, and start from the edges and corners, which have the fewest ways to fit.
Word games
Crossword
Tap a square to select it and tap again to switch between across and down. The clue bar shows the current clue and the cursor moves on by itself as you type. Check tells you whether a letter is right, and Letter or Word reveals the answer. Pick a 5 by 5 mini, a 7 by 7 midi or a 9 by 9 grid. A new Daily arrives each date, and solving it without a reveal grows your streak.
Word Ladder
Turn the start word into the target word, one letter at a time, and every step must be a real word. Tap a letter, then pick its replacement. Ladders come in 3, 4 and 5 letters, and letters that already match the target turn green. Par is the shortest possible route. Match it with no hints for three stars.
Quick guide
| If you have… | Try | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Two minutes | Hoop Shots on Timed | A 60-second round |
| A friend next to you | Penalty Shootout or Strike Lane | Both have a two-player mode on one phone |
| Your morning coffee | Crossword or Word Ladder Daily | One new puzzle each date |
| A long flight | Mahjong Solitaire or Kakuro | Deep, calm and fully offline |
| A taste for pure logic | Killer Sudoku or Bridges | Pure reasoning from clue to clue |
For Chess, Bagh-Chal and the card games, read the strategy and cards guide. For the arcade additions and the whole catalogue, see the full tour, or go straight to the Game Collection page.
Keep reading: Chess, Bagh-Chal, Hearts and Rummy, offline · What 106 games in one app looks like · Every game, category by category · How the app picks your next game
Game Collection is made by Lacspace Game Studio, part of Lacspace Corporation Pvt Ltd. It has no ads and no in-app purchases. Games and features change with updates.
Frequently asked questions
Can I play pool offline in Game Collection?
Yes. Pool Hall plays eight-ball with no internet, against Lumi AI on Easy, Medium or Hard, or against a friend on the same phone.
Which puzzles have a new Daily?
Killer Sudoku, Kakuro, Bridges, Pipe Connect, Crossword and Word Ladder all have a Daily puzzle. Archery has a Daily Wind Challenge too.
How hard is Killer Sudoku compared with Sudoku?
It adds dashed cages with a total in the corner. The digits in a cage must add up to that total, with no repeats, on top of the normal row, column and box rules. Levels run up to Expert.
What sizes of Crossword are there?
A 5 by 5 mini on Easy, a 7 by 7 midi on Medium and a 9 by 9 grid on Hard, plus a Daily that arrives each date.
Do the sports games need internet?
No. All of them play offline. An internet connection is only needed for leaderboards, cloud save and online Ludo.
Can two people play the sports games?
Pool Hall, Penalty Shootout and Strike Lane all have a two-player mode on one phone. Hoop Shots and Archery have a Duel against Lumi AI.
