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Preschool Maze 123
Review Excerpt: Following Toddler Maze 123, Preschool Maze offers 16 more mazes, each with different themes that include pirates, aliens and penguins and more that you must help to ...
Fairytale Maze 123
Review Excerpt: This is a collection of 20 mazes, each designed around a popular fairytale theme. In one maze, you lead the prince to Rapunzel; in another you help the three little ...
StoryToys Grimm’s Snow White
Review Excerpt: Available for both Android and Apple mobile devices, the $2 app features a solid design and playful 3D graphics. This particular story mixes a Snow White and the Seven ...
Pip and Posy: Fun and Games
Review Excerpt: These days you can find thousands of jigsaw puzzles, games of concentration and coloring books in the app store; but few are crafted this well. There are five games ...
Brave: Storybook Deluxe
Review Excerpt: This is a 36 screen interactive app adaptation of the now Academy Award winning movie. Each narrated page is sandwiched between nicely crafted animated transitions that ...
Marble Math
Review Excerpt: Following the age-old formula of pairing an addicting game with math facts practice, Marble Math (and it’s little sister, Marble Math Jr.) lets you solve math ...
Little Things Forever
Review Excerpt: This second edition of Little Things (called Little Things Forever) contains 10 fresh mosaic puzzles based on thousands of “little things” –clothing ...
Cutie Monsters Jigsaw Puzzles
Review Excerpt: Want to learn to count to ten? Each page of this ten screen storybook features a playful (non-scary) monster with a name like Blushy, Toothy, Golly, Taily, Blobby, ...
PHLIP
Review Excerpt: PHLIP is a spatial relations puzzle where you “flip” or turn your screen left or right, like a steering wheel, to change the orientation of a set of tiles, ...
Toddler Maze 123
Review Excerpt: Here’s a great starter app for introducing even young children to the mechanics of a multi-touch screen. Content consists of 20 simple mazes, shown in sequence ...
Maze Adventures
Review Excerpt: Offering six sets of themed mazes, this app is an exercise in spatial problem solving. To solve a maze, you use your finger to trace a path through the maze, guiding ...
Sort and Stack Toys 3D
Review Excerpt: Jigsaw puzzles apps — where you drag and drop the pieces into place– abound. But few are designed as well as Sort and Stack Toys 3D. Designed in Romania, ...
Shadow Move
Review Excerpt: We’ve all seen a shadow, but can you guess the shape behind the shadow? This collection of 50 spatial puzzles uses shadows as clues, and it really gives you a ...
LEGO Creationary Halloween
Review Excerpt: Here’s a game of LEGO Creationary with a haunted Halloween theme. Like the original title (see CTR August 2012) the timed guessing game lets you earn points by ...
Kids Preschool Puzzle
Review Excerpt: Designed to teach one of 14 languages through simple puzzles, this collection of 60 standard-variety touch and drop jigsaw puzzles are grouped into six common vocabulary ...
Apptivity Hot Wheels
Review Excerpt: Two special Hot Wheels cars (sold for $20) use a technology we first saw last fall (see Disney AppMates, CTR Nov. 2011). The cars are sold only in Apple stores, and ...
LEGO Creationary
Review Excerpt: This is a timed guessing game, that lets you earn points by correctly identifying which object is being constructed (out of Lego blocks, naturally) on the screen. The ...
Toca Train
Review Excerpt: Toca Train lets you take control of your very own short toy train. You can easily adjust the view, moving in or out of the cab to take a helicopter view of your train ...
Salt Water Fuel Cell Monster Truck
Review excerpt: Salt Water Fuel Cell Monster Truck ($26, www.owirobots.com) is a plastic model with a DUI battery. Inside the box you’ll find a tiny electric motor, stamp-sized ...
Touch My Katamari
Review excerpt: Katamari comes to the touch screen for the first time, due to the new capabilities of the PlayStation Vita. The idea is the same — roll a sticky ball around a ...
PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond
Review excerpt: A cross between a Pokémon game and Animal Crossing (with a bit of “Carnival Games” tossed in), PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond lets you play as one of four ...
Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions
Review excerpt: Back in the 1980s these six classic video games earned a lot of quarters. Today, all six come on a cartridge the size of a quarter. What’s more, they’re ...
Frogger 3D
Review excerpt: Those frogs can now jump right out of your 3DS screen, in this new edition of the classic arcade game. Content includes six worlds to hop through, including New York, ...
Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Review excerpt: In the story, an alien spaceship crashes in the otherwise peaceful realm of Planet Pop Star, and its pieces are scattered throughout the land. You must guide Kirby ...
Super Mario 3D Land
Review excerpt: Along with Mario Kart 7, this title marks Mario’s debut on the Nintendo 3DS. By combining the motion sensing abilities of the Nintendo 3DS with a 3D screen, you ...
Pirate Puzzles
Review excerpt: This app features two puzzle sets, each with nine puzzles that start easy (with six large pieces) and become more difficult. A hint system makes trial and error possible. ...
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Review excerpt: This one player Zelda game turns your Wii into a flying, sword-fighting puzzle solving adventure, complete with problem solving opportunities and reading. Note the ...
Big Kid Life: Firefighter
Review excerpt: This set of timed maze game challenges is embedded with multiple-choice problems. For example, in order to use a ladder to rescue a kitten, you must “find and ...
Tetris Axis
Review excerpt: The basic Tetris challenge is the same as always; to steer a falling block into place on a grid as quickly and efficiently as possible. Color and shape matches earn ...
Puzzingo
Review excerpt: Puzzingo was inspired by classic wooden puzzles for kids. As children play with the puzzles, they learn what the different pieces are, as well as the different sounds ...
Kirby Mass Attack
Review excerpt: In this one player game you navigate through the maze-like stages by learning a series of two-step swipes. For example, to get Kirby to float, you have to drag a star ...
Kid-Tough See Yourself Digital Camera
Review excerpt: The Kid-Tough See Yourself Digital Camera from Fisher-Price (in stores now, $70, www.fisher-price.com) features a swiveling lens. So your child can take a traditional ...
Helicopter Taxi
Review excerpt: In this app, your job is to run a helicopter taxi that picks up different characters that need to get to certain places. Your kids can fly the helicopter by walking ...
Toca Robot Lab
Review excerpt: This app designed for preschoolers mixes limited creativity with a maze type of flying game. You start by making a robot by selecting legs, a body, a head and arms using ...
Injini Child Development Game Suite
Review excerpt: Nine carefully crafted, multi-level learning games are designed for young children with special needs. But they could be used in regular ECE settings as well. Designed ...
Shape Builder — The Preschool Learning Game
Review excerpt: Shape Builder turns your iPod Touch or iPhone into a self-correcting set of 146 jigsaw puzzles.Now available in both English or Spanish and also for Android devices, ...
Legend of Zelda, The: Ocarina of Time 3D
Review excerpt: If you’ve played previous versions of Zelda, you’re in for few surprises in this 3D version, according to our well-Zeldafied testers, besides some nice 3D ...
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