Match Blitz
© 2013 Shiny Things
This fast-paced multiplayer (two to four players at once) iPad app lets you race against your friends to try to spot the matching symbols, scattered around the screen. It is a classic "huddleware" activity. After you select the number of players you start the game. Each player is given a corner of the iPad. The idea is that you sit around, each watching your corner. The first person to touch the object that appears in all the quadrants wins the point. Wrong answers are penalized. There's a lot of fast-paced visual discrimination involved. The app detects the speed of answers and adjusts the difficulty of the game accordingly. This self-adapting features is useful. This would be an excellent app for long car ride with multiple players. There are no hidden purchase options; parent options and external links are behind a firewall that requires reading. Created by Ben Tengrove of Shiny Things. Note that the free Android version of this app uses TapContext to place ads and collect device information. It also forces you to share the game with other players on Facebook before you can unlock the three and four player options.
iPad, iPhone, Android
Teaches: memory, visual perception, logic
CTR Rating: 92%