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Glow Puzzle

Mindprint Rating

Tags

All Ages iOS App

Skills

Flexible Thinking Working Memory Abstract Reasoning Spatial Perception

Mindprint Expert Review

Pros

  • Students will practice visual reasoning and planning skills along with working memory while playing this app.
  • The app has no timer and unlimited replays for students who enjoy it and want to work at being successful.
  • The app includes over 700 puzzles.

Considerations

  • Students may find the app insufficiently engaging.
  • The hints solve the puzzle rather than assisting the player in solving the puzzle.

Mindprint Expert Review

Glow Puzzle is a slow-paced visual puzzle game with over 700 puzzles to provide plenty of practice for students who enjoy it, but many may not find it sufficiently interesting to keep playing. In each round students are shown a different arrangement of dots with lines connecting them. The goal is to connect all the dots in the pattern shown without re-tracing any lines. Students must progress through the puzzles in order, and they can start a puzzle over at any time. There are five hints included and students can pay for additional hints. Unfortunately, the hints completely solve the puzzle rather than providing incremental help. To be successful, students will need to rely on visual reasoning skills as well as working memory as they plan their paths and try not to repeat their mistakes. Overall, this can be a good app to practice skills with no timer, unlimited "do overs" and plenty of puzzles but not all students will find it enjoyable.

Fun

Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
  • Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
  • Visually appealing to children in the target age range
  • Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
  • Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
  • Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
  • Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

Easy to Use

Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Has a free or trial version
  • Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
  • Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
  • Student should be able to use independently after first use
  • Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
  • Multiple users can save a profile
  • Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
  • Can play without sound and not distract others
  • Students can save work between sessions
  • Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
  • Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
  • Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
  • Overall - Easy to use

Cognitive Concerns

May not be advisable for students with the following cognitive needs

  • Attention
    • Promotes purchases or upgrades to students
    • Problems or examples are not interesting for the target age range
  • Working Memory
    • Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps

Manufacturer Description

Bored & looking for puzzles to pass time? Glow Puzzle is casual puzzle game that is made for everyone. The logic of the game is to connect all of the lines given in each puzzle using the dots as a connection. It may sound simple but it's a challenging and extremely addictive brain teaser.

• Over 6 million copies downloaded!
• Featured by Apple in What's Hot, Staff Favorites and New & Noteworthy
• Top Free Puzzle Game in US, UK, Canada, Australia and 14 other countries
• As seen on iPhone Life magazine

"Perfect time-waster for the train ride home." - Mac|Life

"Fun and easy to like; definitely worth the download." - App Advice

"perfect blend of simplicity, challenge, and appealing visuals" - AppDiscover

"A fun app that will captivate you for hours on end." - AppPicker

Features:
• Over 950 brain teaser puzzles
• Solution for each puzzle level
• Two control to play the puzzle (dots selection or lines dragging)
• iCloud progress sync
• Various puzzle theme color
• Game Center achievements
• Optimized for iOS 7 & Universal app (iPhone, iPad & iPod touch)

This Eulerian path puzzle is recommended for fans of classic puzzle games such as sudoku, connect the dots, brain teasers, etc.

Developed and published by Nexx Studio. In collaboration with Glosculptor.

Follow Glow Puzzle on Facebook and Twitter for the latest updates and news:
Facebook: facebook.com/GlowPuzzle
Twitter: @GlowPuzzleGame