Safety and setup
What a puzzle game asks permission for, and what to grant
A game that moves coloured tiles around does not need your contacts. Most of these prompts can be declined.
Last checked · 8 min readHarvest board notes · Dunedin
Fruit and harvest boards, and how to keep them harmless
Drakoniquand covers the fruit-and-farm corner of mobile puzzles, and the practical questions that come with it: what these games ask permission for, how to set up a phone that a child also uses, and why the same game is not quite the same on the two stores.
How this site works
Three rules, which explain the content and the omissions equally.
Checked on a real device
Every setting described here was found and used on a current phone. Where Android and iOS differ, both are written out separately rather than one being presented as the general case.
Official listings only
Game links open the developer's own New Zealand store page. Nothing is hosted here, and no modified build or third-party client is linked from any page.
Nothing from inside a game is traded
Drakoniquand cannot add coins, stars or lives to any game and will never ask you to sign in to one. One PDF written here is sold; every guide stays free.
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What a puzzle game asks permission for, and what to grant
A puzzle game needs almost nothing from your phone: a screen, a touch input and somewhere to save. Everything it asks for beyond that serves the parts around the game, and nearly all of it can be declined without affecting a single level. This guide goes through the prompts one by one.
All guides
Four guides. Two about setting the phone up sensibly, two about the games themselves.
Safety and setup
Setting up a shared device so a game cannot spend money
Ten minutes of setup removes the entire category of accidental spending, permanently.
Last checked · 8 min read
Board types
Fruit boards, block boards and hidden-object rooms
Similar art, three different games underneath. The habits do not transfer between them.
Last checked · 7 min read
Platforms
Same game, two stores: what actually differs
The board is the same. The price, the update timing and the refund process are not.
Last checked · 7 min readGames referred to in these guides
Free to install in New Zealand, each with optional in-app purchases. Links open the studio's own store listing.
| Game | Studio | What the board asks for | Board style | Official listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Farm Heroes Super Saga |
King | Gather crops against a target, with a scoring twist on the original | Square grid, collect goals | Google Play App Store |
 Homescapes |
Playrix | Win levels for stars, then spend stars on a renovation storyline | Square grid, swap two neighbours | Google Play App Store |
 Manor Matters |
Playrix | Find hidden objects and clear match levels to restore a house | Hidden object plus match levels | Google Play App Store |
 Fruit Ninja Classic |
Halfbrick | Slice what is thrown and avoid the hazards | No grid, timing arcade | Google Play App Store |
Ratings and prices are not reproduced here because they change too often to stay accurate. The listing shows the current New Zealand figures.
From the same desk · NZ$14
The Safe Play Handbook
The setup material from this site as one printable file: permissions explained line by line, family controls for both platforms with the screens named, and a page on spotting a scam site that promises free currency. Requested by form, paid by transfer off the site.
Common questions
Is Drakoniquand an official site for any of these games?
No. It is written by one person in Dunedin and has no connection to King, Playrix, Halfbrick, Apple or Google. Nothing here can change anything inside a game.
Do you give away coins, stars or lives?
No, and nobody outside the studio can. Currency is created inside the game and issued by it alone. Anywhere offering you some in return for signing in is collecting logins, and the currency at the end of it does not exist.
Why is there no ratings column in the table?
A rating printed in August describes August. By spring it is decoration that looks like data, which is worse than an empty column, so the table sends you to the listing where the live figure sits.
Do these guides apply to both platforms?
Both, and the differences are the subject of one of the guides. Where Android and iOS behave differently, each is described separately.
Are these games free in New Zealand?
Installing costs nothing for any of the four, and all four have things to sell you once you are in. Advertising appears in some of them. Both facts sit on the store page, above the install button, before you commit to anything.
What is the handbook you sell?
A PDF I wrote, NZ$14, requested through a form and emailed after a bank transfer. It is the only thing sold from this site, and it contains writing rather than anything that exists inside a game.