Pettson's Inventions 3
© 2016 Filimundus
This is the third collection of Rube Goldberg-style puzzles, featuring Pettson, the silly farmer by Swedish author Sven Nordqvist. The books feature an old farmer and his cat who live in a small ramshackle farmhouse in the countryside. The illustration style is playful, and there's a nice range of machines to assemble, that must be unlocked in sequence. Content includes 36inventions divided into 6 themed areas (woodshed, create an egg-painting machine and so on). You can build a wake-up invention by combining an apple, a dog and some paint or using missing bike parts to fix Pettson’s bike. This app looks better than it plays, in terms of interactive design. We didn't see any hint system, and the drag and drop format doesn't allow for experimentation (parts placed in the wrong place just fall off the screen). In other words, the problem solving process feels rigid. But once you get used to the controls, you can have a good time because there is a nice range of challenges.
$2.99, iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle
Teaches: logic, spatial relations, problem solving
CTR Rating: 86%