Other Featured Apps
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Lemonade Tycoon – app for the older kid to stretch their business skills
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The Three Pigs – pop up book deluxe!
02 April 2011 10:40 PM | 3 Comments -
Scribblenauts – a great creative, problem solving game
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Trace – creative problem solving game
21 June 2010 3:19 AM | 1 Comment -
Math apps from McGraw Hill
14 April 2011 8:58 AM | No Comments
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logic Archive
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Star Wars Pit Droids – surprisingly educational puzzler
Posted on June 1, 2012 | 1 CommentThese pit droids are pretty mindless. They can only follow instructions via tiles printed on the ground. It’s your job to steer them in the right direction. Yup – it’s another algorithmic thinking puzzle in the guise of a game! I had come to think […] -
Cargo Bot – introduction to algorithmic thinking.
Posted on May 29, 2012 | No CommentsCargo Bot is a great little game that has generated some buzz because it was developed entirely on the iPad. We’ll be looking into that development environment and how it might be useful for a kid to get introduced to programming later on. For now, […] -
Scribblenauts – a great creative, problem solving game
Posted on March 21, 2012 | No CommentsScribblenauts was originally introduced to us via my brother’s Nintendo DS. When we saw it out for the iPad, we jumped on it. Maxwell, the main character, often finds himself in situations where he needs help. That’s where you come in. You create objects (by […] -
Casey’s Contraptions – physics game, geared towards kids with a iPad friendly UI
Posted on August 13, 2011 | 1 CommentUpdate:This game was bought out and renamed Amazing Alex by Rovio. But it’s still the same great game. It’s a physics, Rube Goldberg game, with a slant towards children. It is a lot like the previously reviewed Crazy Machines, but it has a much more intuitive […] -
Solitaire Chess – if chess and the peg puzzle had a baby
Posted on April 6, 2011 | No CommentsThe kind folks at ThinkFun let me know about this one after they saw how much we enjoyed RushHour. They were very sweet and provided a promo code so that we could try this one out too. Basically this is the peg game – but […] -
StackEm – great board game for two.
Posted on March 29, 2011 | 3 Comments* note – just got word that this game has been taken down due to conflict between Goblet and Stackem, I’ll keep an eye opened on this, but for now seems like the game has been removed* We’re at the point where the restaurant menus […] -
RushHour – popular puzzle game in app format
Posted on March 25, 2011 | 1 CommentThis is another popular crossover from puzzle game to app. Sal got this traffic game puzzle from ThinkFun from his grandfather and enjoyed trying to see how far he could go in the challenges. In the game you get a beginning layout that can vary […] -
Sticker Sudoku – fun intro for kids to logic puzzles
Posted on March 18, 2011 | No CommentsWe’re excited to announce our first app! We’ve been big fans of how intuitive iOS apps are to kids and have been impressed with how quickly they are being adopted in schools. Sal’s school has gotten a set of iPads that are very popular with […]
