Pairnic

A quiet puzzle with a clever twist

Pairnic is a brain-teasing puzzle game about sliding blocks into place. Every level is a small playfield of walls and colored blocks. You slide blocks left and right — gravity does the rest, pulling them down until they land on a wall, another block, or the floor. Get two or more blocks of the same symbol touching, and they vanish. Clear every block on the board to win the level, before your timer runs out.

The signature twist: some levels hide an odd number of a given symbol — three lightning bolts, say, with no way to pair them off two at a time. The only way to clear them is to engineer a moment where all three touch at once. It's a puzzle within the puzzle, and it's the heart of what makes Pairnic click.

Learn it in a minute

Objective

Clear every block on the board before the timer runs out. Slide blocks left or right; gravity pulls them down onto whatever's beneath — a wall, another block, or the floor.

Controls

Star rating

Tips & tricks

1. Watch for odd counts. If a symbol shows up three times on a board, pairing two of them off first strands the last one — plan a moment where all three can touch at once instead.
2. Undo is for experiments, not just mistakes. Three undos per level fully restores the board (except the clock), so use one to try a risky idea and see what happens.
3. The +30s button saves itself for when you need it. It's locked until the timer hits 30 seconds, so there's no reason to hold back — it can't be banked for later.
4. Platforms move on their own schedule. Matching a block riding a platform is often about timing your slide to when it arrives, not just where it sits right now.
5. Think a few moves ahead. You only ever slide left or right — gravity handles the falling. Plan for where a block will land, not just where you're pushing it from.
6. Not your style? Switch it up. Cursor control and four block themes are both free to try anytime in Settings — even mid-level.

FAQ

Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 2026 · Published by Frank Neumann

What we collect

Nothing that identifies you, directly from us. Pairnic has no user accounts, no login, and no registration of any kind. The app includes no analytics SDKs, no advertising frameworks, no crash reporters, and no third-party tracking code — only first-party Apple frameworks (SpriteKit, SwiftUI, AVFoundation, GameKit). Pairnic itself has no backend server of its own; the only network activity is with Apple's own iCloud and Game Center services, described below.

Your game progress

Which levels you've cleared, your stars, and your best scores are stored locally on your device as a small file. That same data is mirrored through Apple's iCloud key-value store so it follows you across your own devices signed into the same iCloud account. This data is never transmitted to the developer or any third party.

Level of the Day & worldwide leaderboard

If you play Level of the Day and are signed in to Game Center, Pairnic submits your score for that day's puzzle to Apple's Game Center service so it can appear on the worldwide leaderboard, and Apple's standard Game Center interface is used to display standings. This uses your Game Center identity (not your real name or Apple ID) and is governed by Apple's own Game Center privacy terms, not ours — the developer never receives or stores this data. If you don't use Level of the Day, or aren't signed in to Game Center, none of this happens.

This website

This page uses no cookies, no tracking pixels, and no third-party scripts. No personal data is collected by visiting it.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email support@pairnic-game.fneumann.com — we'll respond promptly.

Support

Found a bug? Stuck on a level that seems impossible? Got a question not answered above? Pairnic is a small indie project — every message gets read, and your reports genuinely shape what gets fixed next.