Perfect Pour is still the same game: hold to pour, let go at the line, one miss ends the run. Everything around the pour is new. You can see who you're about to pass, wear a crown for your city, and take on the person on the next stool without them making an account first.
Why we built it
We looked hard at our own screenshots. A new personal best got one small purple line, and a ranking like "#3 of 3" read like last place. The bottom of the screen was mostly an empty counter. Challenging a friend meant finishing a run, being signed in, and sending a line of plain text, and the person beside you had to install the app and sign up before they could answer. The pour was fun. The rest needed work.
Every pour gets a moment
PERFECT! now slams onto the shell. A row of perfects fills a streak meter, with HOT POUR at three and bigger stamps after that. Under it, a ticker always shows the next score to beat: your best, a friend, the top of your city today. Pass one and a banner drops without stopping your run. A new best gets confetti and a proper count-up.
There are new rules for solo runs too. Five perfects in a row starts Bula Time, and the next three shells score double. A golden shell turns up now and then and is worth 250 extra for a perfect. And once a run, from shell 11, the kavatender catches a pour that only just ran over.
Boards and crowns
The boards now go Friends, My bar, City, State and Everywhere, for Today, This week or All time. Number one on a bar, city or state board wears the crown, and if someone takes yours you'll get a heads-up to come take it back. Quiet boards aren't empty either: the game's kavatenders put up house pours, marked with a little tiki, so there's always someone to beat. They never take a rank or a crown.
Challenge anyone
One Challenge button now gives you three ways in. Right here puts a QR code on your screen for the person next to you: five shells each, higher score wins. They can join as a guest with just a first name, and when everyone taps I'm ready, both phones start together. Send it sends your score as a picture and a link, and the loser buys the next shell. Find a rival pairs you with a real run of about your level from another city, so you can pour against it right away. Only one phone between you? Pass the phone still works too.
Don't want strangers pouring against your runs? Turn off "Let strangers find my runs" on the boards screen.
Where to find it
Open Play and tap Perfect Pour. Challenge, Scan to join and Have a code? are on the game's first screen, and See the boards is further down. You'll need the latest version of the app.
Also improved
- A run that earned confetti no longer ends on an error screen.
- A face-off can take up to six players, and a rematch keeps the same group.
- Your record against each person you've played shows on the boards, like "You 4 – 3 Keisha".
- Guest face-offs move to your account when you sign in.
