💡 Logic & thinking
Logic & thinking games
Spot the pattern, crack the code, plan three moves ahead: sorting and patterns for little ones, sudoku and nonograms for older kids, board games against a fair computer, and a robot to program.
42 gamesAges 4–10No sign-up
Logic & thinking games
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Questions parents ask
Which logic games suit a four- or five-year-old?
Shape Sorter, Pattern Maker, Big or Small and Robot Factory — picture-based, untimed.
Is Robot Coder real coding?
It teaches the ideas — commands in order, predicting the result, fixing mistakes — with arrows instead of text. A good step before Scratch.
Are the computer opponents fair?
Yes. They play at a child's level and don't cheat; Tic-Tac-Toe has an unbeatable mode if a child wants to test that.
Is there anything to buy?
No — no pop-ups, no sign-up, no hints to buy.
About these games
What they practise and where to go next
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“Logic games” covers a lot, so this page runs from Shape Sorter and Pattern Maker (four years old: which comes next?) to Sudoku and Tower of Hanoi (ten years old: think it through). In the middle are the puzzles most children know from apps — Unblock the Car — and the pen-and-paper classics: Checkers, Tic-Tac-Toe, Four in a Row. Every one rewards planning over speed; nothing here is timed unless the game says so.
Two are worth pointing out. Robot Coder is a first programming game — build a program from arrow commands to get the robot to the star — and teaches sequencing and debugging without a line of text. And the strategy games (Checkers and Four in a Row) have a computer opponent that plays fairly at a child's level, plus a two-player mode on one screen.
What they practise
- Patterns, sorting and sequencing
- Deduction: sudoku, Minesweeper-style, nonograms
- Planning ahead in sliding and pushing puzzles
- Strategy against an opponent, and losing gracefully
- Sequencing and debugging in Robot Coder
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About each game
A line on every game here
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- Tic-Tac-Toe Get three in a row before the friendly panda does!
- 2048 Slide the animals on a stone board by the creek.
- Sliding Puzzle Slide the picture pieces into the gap to fix the picture, and your animal friend comes to life with a wave!
- Shape Sorter Drag the chunky shapes into the smiling toy box's matching holes.
- Checkers Hop over the wombats with your team of koalas, crown a king, and win to take the board somewhere new.
- Pattern Maker What comes next?
- Unblock the Car Slide the cute cars, trucks and logs out of the way so Koala's little red car can drive out.
- Tower of Hanoi Move the smiling cake to the gold star plate, one layer at a time, and never put a big layer on a small one.
- Take the Last One Take 1, 2 or 3 carrots, shells or cupcakes, then it's Echidna's turn.
- Big or Small Which one is BIG?
- Robot Factory Sort the robot parts from the conveyor belt into the right boxes by colour, shape and size, then build a robot from the order card and watch it wake up!
- Robot Coder Tap arrow cards into a row, press Go, and help the cute robot roll along the grid to its battery friend.
- Simple Machines Help Quokka lift heavy things with Wombat the inventor: pick a gentler ramp, move the see-saw pivot, add a pulley or a bigger wheel, and watch the machine work.
- Place Value Build numbers with cute tens and ones blocks!
- Graph Builder Help Galah count!
- Garden Guard Munching bug friends are wandering down the garden path to the veggie patch!
- Treasure Island Follow Galah the guide's clues across a little island and help Koala dig up treasure: arrows, counting steps, grid squares and compass letters, one gentle step at a time.
- Puzzle Trail Hop Quokka along a treasure trail by solving little picture puzzles: spot the different one, count, match shadows, finish patterns, build paths and find what changed.
- Minesweeper Uncover the garden without waking the sleepy hedgehogs.
- Sudoku Picture sudoku with smiling fruit: tap a square, then the fruit that fits.
- Four in a Row Drop cute animal counters into the frame and get four in a row before the friendly wombat.
- Odd One Out Tap the one that doesn't belong!
- Blockade Step, then block!
- Cup Shuffle Watch the ball!
- Tidy Up Help Raccoon tidy the house!
- Tangram Zoo Build animals from the seven tangram shapes!
- Nonogram Garden Plant the clues and grow a picture!
- Dot to Dot Join the dots and wake up the picture!
- Car Parking Draw a path and park the cars!
- Halloween Dot to Dot Join the dots from 1 upwards to draw a smiling pumpkin, a sleepy bat or a friendly ghost, then watch your picture come to life.
- Halloween Sudoku Picture sudoku with pumpkins, bats, ghosts and moons: every row and column gets one of each.
- Halloween Tic-Tac-Toe Smiling pumpkins against friendly ghosts: get three in a row to win.
- Hide and Seek Toys and animals are hiding all over Owl's places: behind bushes, under snowdrifts, even in the dark.
- Rock Paper Scissors Rock, paper, scissors… go!
- Dots and Boxes Draw a line between two dots.
- Christmas Dot to Dot Join the dots in order to draw a Christmas tree, a star, a bell and a snowman.
- Christmas Sudoku Picture sudoku with trees, stars, bells and presents: each picture once in every row and column.
- Christmas Tic-Tac-Toe Trees against snowmen: get three in a row!
- Thanksgiving Dot to Dot Join the dots in order to draw a turkey, a pumpkin, an apple and an autumn leaf.
- Thanksgiving Sudoku Picture sudoku with turkeys, pumpkins, pies and apples: each picture once in every row and column.
- Thanksgiving Tic-Tac-Toe Turkeys against pumpkin pies: get three in a row!
- Fruit Merge Drop fruits into the jar!