Symbol6 Redux is a fast paced game that mixes shape matching with finger swiping, tapping and a lot of quick thinking. The game is extremely easy to learn but becomes challenging as you advance to higher levels. This is an ideal family game because it has three levels, one for children and then a normal [...]

Puzzle Planet is a free iPad app for the more advanced jigsaw puzzlers. Puzzles can be played in three difficulty levels and even the easiest level will be tricky enough for elementary school children. You will earn points for how quickly you place the pieces and you can compare your progress on leaderboards. Special “power [...]

My son has been telling me how much he likes A Monster Ate My Homework and once I had a chance to sit down and play the game I totally understood why. It’s one of those apps that grabs you and then you think I’ll just play one more level, okay no really, just one [...]

Rubik’s Slide is an app take on the classic Rubik’s cube. I remember having a Rubik’s cube as a child and getting really frustrated because I could not solve the darn thing. This may be my memory playing tricks on me but I’m pretty sure one of my brothers finally took the stickers off and [...]

My eleven year old daughter is a big fan of the “Dash” games from PlayFirst. I thought she’d be the perfect person in our family to review their newest app, Hotel Dash

Cannon Cadets reminds me of a take on Angry Birds. Here you’ll have a cannon loaded with a little cadet. Use your finger to aim the cannon at a blockade across the screen. Your goal is to launch your cadet into a blockade that’s guarded by robots. Inside the blockade is another cadet who has [...]

Hooray for the Symmetry Shuffle! This is an awesome app that feels like a giant puzzle game but is really all about honing Math skills. Symmetry Shuffle focuses on the creation of symmetrical images, using flipping, rotating and sliding. The game presents outlines in a puzzle and you must use one original image to create [...]

How have I not heard about the game Halli Galli before? Now it is an iPhone app but before that it was (and still is) a popular card game that involves ringing a bell. I’ve been playing the iPhone app and I think I’m going to have to ask Santa for the actual board game [...]

Stack the States is currently one of my girls (ages 11 & favorite apps and I think it is loads of fun too. Here’s how it works. First you answer geography questions about the United States of America. When you answer a question correctly you collect the state that was the answer. This state will [...]

Over the past week my family has fallen victim to an Angry Bird addiction. I bought the silly game and one by one we’ve been sucked in. Green pigs have stolen the birds eggs and they are angry and ready to wage battle. Using a slingshot you need to fling the birds against the pigs [...]