Detective Holmes is a poorly designed hidden picture app with a detective theme. The goal is to help Detective Holmes find a stolen painting by identifying the hidden objects found in the room. While hidden picture games can be a very useful tool for helping students improve visual detail and discrimination skills, this app may be more frustrating than helpful. The introduction and explanation comic in the beginning passes too quickly for some students to read and absorb, and it uses improper grammar. The pictures students need to find will not always be obvious to them (e.g. weights are the metal weights one would use to balance a scale not exercise weights). An imprecise tap can lead to a student mistakenly thinking that the correct item was not found. When a student repeatedly taps a wrong object thinking it may be right, the police officer appears to chastise the player. Furthermore, all the items a student needs to find are not visible in the beginning. As a student finds an object another is added which can be demoralizing as a student does not know how many objects need to be found. While students who love detective stories may like this app, there are much better designed apps to choose.

• 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

• 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

• Abstract Reasoning
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Students might need support with navigation
• Attention
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Fine Motor Skills
• Requires challenging finger movements, motor precision or physical manipulation
• Self-regulation
• Gives negative feedback (red X's, buzzer)
• Verbal Reasoning
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Visual Discrimination
• Visually distracting with too many pictures, problems or moving objects
• Students might need support with navigation
• Visual Memory
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Students might need support with navigation
• Visual Motor Speed
• Requires challenging finger movements, motor precision or physical manipulation
• Working Memory
• Directions may be confusing for students using independently
• Requires remembering and completing a sequence of visual steps
• Students might need support with navigation

NEW ADVENTURES OF FAMOUS SHERLOCK HOLMES ARE WAITING FOR YOU
If you love detective stories, adventures, unexpected turns of a plot – this game is for you. The valuable exhibit is stolen from a collection of Lord Crowley. Traces of malefactors lead to India.

SCANDALOUS ROBBERY IN THE CITY OF LONDON
Be the best detective and help open one of the most complex cases and unravel the identity of a thief.

ONE MINOR DETAIL CAN BE THE KEY TO SOLVING THE MYSTERY
Test your powers of observation during a search for clues in the most unexpected places.

UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY TO INDIA
Secret life of Indian temples conceals many mysteries.
Explore Holmes from England to India to reveal the mysterious crime.

Attractive locations, intriguing mini-games and hidden object puzzles will not let you be bored.
Solve the puzzle based on the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle.