Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Passport to Adventure
© 2013 Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Imagine a very simplified "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego" type of adventure on your iPad, and you have the idea of this geography app. It presents plenty of logic-related challenges, along with some reading practice. After you create one of the two available player profiles, you touch a world map to visit a country where you are presented with a challenge. Content includes eight adventures which are unlocked. Each takes 10 to 20 minutes. The puzzles consists of coded messages, riddles, tile puzzles and search and finds. When you find a treasure, you earn a passport stamp; when you collect all eight passport stamps you receive a free Jack Stalwart prize download at the end. The ultimate prize is a GPF Gadget Trading Card highlighting one of the gadgets featured in the Jack Stalwart chapter books. Content comes from the Secret Agent Jack Stalwart chapter book series for younger readers, by Elizabeth Singer Hunt. The app lets you become a secret agent and travel the world in search of stolen treasures. NEED TO KNOW: While the design isn't flashy (by any stretch) the puzzles follow tried-and-trued play patterns, and are fun to solve. The hint features and leveling aren't perfect, either. But this is still a solid, playable app.
$0.99, iPad
Teaches: geography, history, language, reading
CTR Rating: 82%