Shut the Duo press kit
Shut the Duo is Shut the Box, the old pub dice game, made for iPhone Duo. The phone is the box. Shut it to pick up the dice, shake it to rattle them, and open it to see what you rolled. Stand it half open, like a laptop, and the tiles hang on the upright half while the dice land on the flat one.
The wood, the felt and the dice are drawn on the phone, each throw is worked out by a small physics simulation, and every sound is synthesized. Nothing is a photo or a recording.
Download the press kit (zip, 36 MB): the icon, sixteen screenshots, two pictures, the preview video and a fact sheet.
Facts
- Launch: October 22, 2026, the day before iPhone Duo goes on sale.
- Price: free to play. One $3.99 purchase unlocks two-player matches after the first, and the other woods, felts, dice and icons. No subscription, no ads, no accounts, no data collected.
- Platform: iPhone and iPad, iOS 27 or later. Made for iPhone Duo. On other iPhones and on iPad you tap Roll.
- Languages: English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.
- Developer: Aaron Peabody, an independent developer.
What's in it
- Shut the phone to pick up the dice, shake it, and open it to roll.
- A stood-up box when the Duo is half open.
- Dice that tumble by a physics simulation, with synthesized sound.
- A daily box: the same dice for everyone in the world, and one go at them.
- Two players across one phone, lowest total after three rounds.
- A hint that points at the best tiles to shut.
- Three woods, four felts and three sets of dice.
- A Game Center leaderboard and achievements, a home screen widget and a daily reminder.
- VoiceOver, large text and Reduce Motion support.
Video
18 seconds, with sound. On an iPhone Duo the lid is the phone itself; here the simulator shuts it. The full-quality file is in the press kit.
Pictures
The screenshots and video were captured in Apple's iPhone and iPhone Duo simulators. You are welcome to use anything here in coverage of Shut the Duo.
Contact
Email aaron@aaronpeabody.dev.