Questions
Answers, in plain language
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What leaves your device
Your data and crash reports
- Do your games track me?
- Not to build a profile of you, and nothing about you is sold to anyone. Poker and Scramble send non-user-identifiable analytics. Squish carries none today, and if that ever changes it will be to count how the game is played, not who is playing it. None of them carry advertising either. There is no ad network in any of them and no advertising ID, so nothing here is building a picture of you in order to sell you something.
- What does Syrious Squish send?
- Two things, and nothing else. A crash report if the game crashes, so we can find out why — it carries the device model, the operating system and app version, and a short record of what happened just before. And a feedback report, only if you press the feedback button yourself — that one carries the screenshot you drew on, the note you wrote, your email address if you chose to type one in, and what the game was doing at the time, including the level you were on and your settings. Nothing goes out on its own: your scores, your progress and your settings live on the device, and they only ever leave it inside one of those two reports.
- What does Syrious Poker send?
- Poker is a live game against real people, so it is talking to a server the whole time you are at a table. If you make an account, it stores your chips and your friends list. If you buy chips, the purchase goes through Google Play, not through us.
- What does Syrious Scramble send?
- Scores from timed rounds, to the leaderboard this site has kept for it since it launched. That is all.
- Can I have my data deleted?
- Yes. Ask, and we will delete it. The address is on the support page, and the formal route is in the privacy policy.
Where you can play
Platforms and availability
- Where can I get Syrious Squish?
- On Google Play, free, right now. The iOS version is not out yet — when it is, the App Store button on its page turns into a real link, and until then it says "coming soon" rather than pretending. There is also a free version you can play in a desktop browser.
- Why can I not play the browser version on my phone?
- It wants a keyboard-and-mouse computer and a bigger screen than a phone has. On a phone the store version is the one you want, which is why that page shows you store buttons instead.
- Which games are on iPhone?
- Syrious Squish is coming to iOS. Syrious Poker and Syrious Scramble are Android games and always have been.
- There are two versions of Syrious Scramble. Which one?
- Start with the free one. If you want the full version it is a single $2.99 purchase on Google Play — bought once, not a subscription and not a currency.
- What happened to Syrious Blasts?
- It is no longer available and is no longer supported. It was a fireworks puzzle game, it had a good run, and it is not coming back. Its name still appears in our trademark notice, which is why you may see it there.
Rules and scoring
Playing the games
- How does scoring work in Syrious Squish?
- Every monster you add to a group is worth more than the one before it, and the effect builds quickly: one group of ten is worth well over twice what two groups of five are worth. So the game is about growing a group as large as you can stand to before you take it, not about spotting a match.
- Why did I lose points in Syrious Squish?
- You squished a monster that was on its own. That costs 100 points, every time. It is legal, and sometimes it is the right move — but tidying up has a price, and that one rule is what turns the end of a round into a real decision.
- Who is Gus?
- The big one hanging over the board. He comments on your run, he is not entirely on your side about it, and if you clear something enormous he comes down off his perch and stomps the group flat himself.
- Do I lose my progress in Syrious Squish if I stop playing?
- No. There is no last level and you never lose your place. Put it down for a week and you come back to the deepest level you ever reached. Close the app mid-round and it comes back on the same board, still paused.
- How long are the words in Syrious Scramble?
- Three to six letters, all made out of the same six scrambled letters. At the end of a round you get the words you missed, with their definitions.
- Do the chips in Syrious Poker cost real money?
- You get 100,000 free when you start and more the next day, and you never have to spend anything. You can buy more if you want to. Chips are the only thing on sale, and nothing in the game is locked behind them.
Still stuck?
There is no support queue and no ticket number, because there is no one here but us.