How-To
Zol's Game World The hamburger menu.
Three stacked lines in the corner of the screen — ☰ — and tapping them slides the side menu out. It's called a hamburger because the shape is two buns and a patty, interface slang from the 1980s that somehow never went away. Nearly everything that isn't a game lives behind it, so it's worth two minutes to know what's in there.
Who's signed in
The top of the menu shows your gamer tag with your name underneath. It's there so you can tell at a glance whose account you're playing on — handy if a tablet gets passed around a household.
Ask ZolAi
Sitting on its own above everything else, because it's the fastest way to get an answer about anything here. Strategy, how a game works, what your subscription covers — just ask.
There's a full page on ZolAi covering what it can and can't do.
Getting around
Home takes you back to the game screen.
Stats is your own record — how you've been doing, game by game, and where your streaks stand.
Leaderboard is the same question pointed outward: where you land against everyone else.
Where the people are
Four entries cover everything social, and the difference between the first two is the one worth knowing.
A Room can contain more than two people — a group conversation. Messages go directly to one other player. If you're not sure which you want: talking to a person, use Messages; talking to a few, use Rooms.
Friends is your list and where you add people. Notifications is anything waiting on you — a challenge, a result, someone getting back to you.
Your account
Subscription shows which plan you're on and what upgrades are available.
Profile is your details, including the display name everyone else sees.
Legal Documents holds the current published versions — terms, privacy, and the rest. They're always there to read, not just at signup.
Making it yours
Colour Scheme gives you five themes — Midnight, Slate, Forest, Plum and Cobalt. Pick one and the whole site follows.
Keyboard switches the on-screen keyboard between QWERTY and Alphabetical. If you don't touch-type, alphabetical order is genuinely faster to scan, and it costs you nothing to try.
Game Skin chooses between Modern and 8-Bit. The retro skin is entirely optional, and a few games sit it out — the ones built on continuous movement don't translate to it.
Game settings
Some games have preferences of their own, and they collect here. Right now that's Zol's Suds, where you can have notes clear themselves automatically once a move makes them impossible.
Expect this section to grow. As games pick up their own options, this is where they'll land.
Telling us something's wrong
Report an Issue is for anything broken — a game misbehaving, a score that looks wrong, something that won't load.
Report a Name is different, and it's there for a reason: display names are visible to everyone on the leaderboards, and if someone picks one that shouldn't be there, this is how you tell us.
At the very bottom of the menu is a version number. Include it when you report something — it tells us exactly which build you were on.
Starting the instructions over
Reset Instruction Screens brings back the how-to popups you've dismissed. Easy to overlook, and the one people wish they'd known about — if you skipped past a game's instructions on the first go and never worked out what you were doing, this is the way back.
Sign Out
Exactly what it says. Worth using rather than just closing the tab if you're on a shared or borrowed device.