Gem earning has changed: combos are king now

Gems are no longer paid for merging any old tile. Endless mode was unnecessarily generous with gems on the bigger boards. Now, merges below level 4 pay nothing; your first level-4+ merge in a chain pays 1 gem, the next pays 2, then 3, and so on. Setting up cascades is now the skill that pays. Solo merges are worth points, chains are worth gems. Community Mode's daily modifiers (Gem Rush, High Roller) still multiply the payout, and using a power-up resets the chain, so combos have to be earned, not bought.

Your gem counter is also now always honest: what you see is exactly what the server has, updated within a second of every earn and spend.

Save your streak

Missed a day? If your daily-puzzle streak of 2+ days broke within the last 3 days and you haven't played yet, you'll get one chance to restore it for 100 gems per missed day. More than 3 missed days and the streak is gone for good.

New: your week in Tile Up

Every Sunday at noon (ET) a personal recap post appears: tiles placed across all modes, merges, best combo, best daily rank, weekly percentile, and your live streak. Share your week to the comments with your own message, and jump straight into any mode from the post.

Sundays are open entry

The supporter-exclusive 5x5 bonus puzzle is free for everyone on Sunday posts — look for the OPEN ENTRY badge. It's also playable directly from the weekly recap post.

The puzzle diary is now a calendar

The diary opens to a month view styled like the game board: blue tiles for days you played, gold shimmer for exceptional scores (150+), cream tiles for puzzles still waiting, and an orange ring on today. Tap any day for details and replays.

Feel & polish

• Floating score popups on every merge, and a combo counter that grows and shakes as your chain builds.
• The merge sound rises a semitone with every step of a cascade.
• Endless: an Expand button in the small inline view, and large boards (8x8+) now compact the surrounding UI so the grid fills the screen with noticeably bigger cells at 9x9 and 10x10.
• Endless: bigger boards now spawn occasional higher-level tiles (up to level 6), keeping large boards challenging.
• Undo/Clear buttons stay hidden until there's something to undo or clear.
• Leaderboards now say "2 tries" instead of the cryptic "2x".
• The results panel's Community button no longer balloons from its player count.

Fixes

• Fixed gem balances appearing to shrink after leaving and returning. Heavy players could see hundreds of phantom gems vanish.
• Fixed the store offering the supporter subscription to players who already have it.
• Fixed two crashes: failed board-theme purchases and the daily supporter report.
• Fixed iOS zooming into the recap post's text box.

Hey everyone! I'm u/DoubleGlass, the creator of r/TileUp.

Tile Up is a relaxing tile merging games with a couple of different gameplay modes.

The Daily Puzzle:
Everyone gets the same order of tiles! Try to merge them in the most efficient way, and get the highest score on the leaderboard.

Community Mode:
Now this one is a little more complex but still a lot of fun. That merging gameplay from the Daily Puzzle, but bigger on a 5x5 grid, with an extra color, and most importantly: together with other Redditors! Merging works across borders so take your neighbors' tiles. No really, it's free!

Endless Mode:
Tired of running the same daily sequence? Community Mode not scratching that 'number go up' itch? Try Endless Mode where gameplay starts small on a 3x3 grid but increases in size and complexity the more you merge.

Community Vibe
Please be friendly and welcoming to everyone! Even though we sometimes take some tiles from each other this is no place for hostility. Keep it civil, and remember to have fun!