Description
Direction Digger is a digital puzzle game teaching directions, spatial reasoning, and logical problem solving.
On the easiest difficulty,
- You get a tiny map. Your cute little digging robot starts somewhere.
- Around the map are arrows. Tapping one will move your machine one space in that direction.
- Your goal is to collect all the gold in the ground in the given number of moves!
Because gameplay is just a single tap on an arrow, this puzzle is already playable by the youngest kids. The game has no other text, numbers, or complex actions. At the same time, every map is different and not all arrows are available, so you really need to puzzle to find the one path to grab everything.
This is one of the rare puzzle games that allows playing with multiple people! In the settings you can pick how many digging machines it should place. You still click a single arrow each time, but now you need each player to figure out the path for their own machine, and to collaborate on helping each other when needed.
The puzzle contains 5 difficulty levels. Later difficulties add,
- More directions
- Larger grids with larger solutions
- Arrows that you still need to unlock, or which destroy themselves after using them once
- Blocks that force you to go around them or go through them multiple times
- And maybe some more special things to collect or find underground …
This is probably our best all-round puzzle game for directions. The objective and rules are extremely simple, digging for gold/treasure is a generally appealing theme, and each move is nothing more than tapping one of the big arrows. Because these arrows are clearly visible, and you hear the right word upon clicking it (“Left!”), they reinforce the educational content with every move.
Details
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Product Contents
- The puzzle game for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Browsers.
Fine Details
| Detail | Value |
| Age | 4 |
| Interactive Media | true |
| Language | en |
| Level | 1, 2 |
| Player Count | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Subject | skills |
| Textless | true |
Subject: Skills
The curriculum is split into six main subjects that align with your typical school subjects.
This resource is part of the Skills subject. Below is a summary:
This subject teaches practical and physical skills. It starts with core skills like pencil control or doing the dishes, then moves into preparing for specific jobs and tasks later on.
Faction: Puzzlepages
This resource is part of the Puzzlepages Faction.
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Charm: Puzzle Game
This product is part of the Puzzle Game charm.
Visit its main page to learn more about what that means. Below is a summary:
These are digital games that offer fun little challenges for Apprentices to solve, letting them explore and practice a topic all on their own. Most games do not require reading, counting, or computer skills (unless they specifically teach those things), and always offer endless puzzles at five different difficulty levels.
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Spell: My First Directions
This resource is part of the My First Directions topic (or "spell").
We live in a physical world where everything has a certain place. It’s pretty useful to learn the right words to tell people where things are or where they should go. This topic helps with that!
This resource also covers other topics. To keep things simple, the curriculum always considers the first topic listed to be the most important.
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