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Each ship shows its code on a plate above the mast. Tap anywhere on the screen for a short flash (a dot, under 0.2 seconds) and hold for a long beam (a dash). Send the whole code before the ship reaches the rocks.

You can replay the lesson at any time in Settings › Replay tutorial, and the Ship guide in Settings explains every ship and signal you've met.

You have five lifebuoys. On a Voyage night you lose one only if the night is lost (leaving or restarting a night part-way also costs one), and one comes back every 20 minutes. Night Watch never costs a lifebuoy.

Run out? Wait a little, watch an optional ad for one more, top up with pearls in the Shop, or light the Golden Lantern for unlimited lifebuoys.

You earn pearls by bringing ships home: for every ship in Night Watch, and for every ship plus a star bonus on Voyage nights. Telegram words pay extra, and after a night you can watch an optional ad to multiply what you earned. You can also buy pearl packs.

Spend pearls in the Shop on skies, ships and lifebuoys, or on renaming your ship. Pearls are saved on your device and have no cash value, so they're lost if you delete the app.

Yes. Every signal is also shown as light, so the game plays exactly the same with sound and vibration off. Settings has switches for sound effects, sea ambience and vibration, along with letter captions and a choice of colour for the red signal.

The Golden Lantern, Remove Ads and premium skies and ships are linked to the Apple ID or Google account you bought them with. In the game, open Settings › Restore purchases while signed in to the App Store or Google Play with that account.

Pearl packs are added to your balance when you buy them and can't be restored.

The store you subscribed through manages your subscription. On your iPhone or iPad, open Settings › your name › Subscriptions, choose Blinkhouse and tap Cancel Subscription (Apple's guide).

On Android, open the Google Play app, tap your profile icon, then Payments & subscriptions › Subscriptions, choose Blinkhouse and tap Cancel subscription (Google's guide).

Cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends to avoid the next charge. You keep the Golden Lantern until the end of the period you've paid for. Deleting the app doesn't cancel the subscription.

First make sure you're online, then try Settings › Restore purchases. If the charge went through but the item or pearls still didn't arrive, email us your keeper name, ship name and the order ID from your Apple or Google Play receipt, and we'll sort it out.

For a refund, use Apple's process at reportaproblem.apple.com for App Store purchases, or Google Play's refund process for Google Play purchases.

The game asks before turning notifications on, for example when your lifebuoys run out, and never when you first open it. With notifications on, we can tell you when your lifebuoys are full again.

Change your answer at any time in the game's Settings › Notifications, in Settings › Notifications › Blinkhouse on your iPhone or iPad, or in Settings › Apps › Blinkhouse › Notifications on Android (the exact path can vary by phone).

On iPhone and iPad, Blinkhouse asks whether it may track you (Apple's App Tracking Transparency). To change your answer, open Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking on your device.

On Android there's no tracking prompt. You can reset or delete your advertising ID at any time in your phone's settings (on most phones, Settings › Privacy › Ads or Settings › Google › Ads).

In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, review or change your ad consent at any time in the game's Settings › Ad privacy options.

To turn off the banner and the ads between runs altogether, get Remove Ads or the Golden Lantern. More in the Privacy Policy.

Your progress is saved on your device, not on our servers, so we can't restore it if the app was deleted or you've moved to a new device. Purchases, except pearl packs, come back with Settings › Restore purchases.