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Faction: Puzzlepages · Type: Digital · Price: €4.95 (excl tax) · Same Spell As: Rainbow Express · Snakepaint · Direction Digger · Candy Island (Bundle)

Direction Digger

Move your digger left and right In underground spaces tight, dark as night Tap the arrows wisely to collect all the gold But beware special cells like the freezing ice cold

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.

REMARK! Many other puzzle games in this topic ask the player to swipe in a certain direction to move something. This can be harder for young kids to learn because they have to perform the entire movement themselves (“from scratch”). Tapping an existing arrow to move that way is often slightly simpler to understand.

This product is part of the Puzzle Game charm. 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. Check out How To Install Our Games for help.

Product Contents

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  • The puzzle game for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Browsers.