Try these apps and games to get you through self-isolation

Despite the fact that we’re now confined to the home with our mad toddlers, there is one upside: children these days have plenty of apps and games to keep us all occupied

Like many people, I’m now facing the possibility of several weeks confined with my four-year-old, a prospect only marginally less alarming than being cooped up with Frankenstein’s monster.

Thankfully, unlike actual prisoners, those of us self-isolating or marooned with children have plenty of entertainment on offer, with apps and games purpose-built to consume hours, days and weeks like my cat gulps down cans of tuna.

Threes!

My wife’s a helpless slave of Wordscapes (left), a crossword-style puzzle game where you’re tasked with finding increasingly obscure words of varying lengths on a grid. Personally, I’m still addicted to Threes! (right), a number-puzzle game where you slide tiles containing multiples of (you’ve guessed it) three

My wife’s a helpless slave of Wordscapes, a crossword-style puzzle game where you’re tasked with finding increasingly obscure words of varying lengths on a grid. For any word game fan, it’s incredibly compulsive – and almost too moreish.

Personally, I’m still addicted to Threes!, a number-puzzle game where you slide tiles containing multiples of (you’ve guessed it) three.

Another nifty word puzzle is Typeshift, where you shift letters up and down in a grid to form different words, with the goal of using every letter at least once (they turn green as you use them to help you keep track).

For a change of pace, June’s Journey offers fun picture puzzles where you’re shown a painting of a scene and asked to pick out slightly bizarre objects, such as an awl or a floral wreath, against the clock. Like all of the games here, it’s free and available on iOS and Android, but there are in-app purchases (so password-protect your app store if children are playing).

The good thing is, if you’ve got lots of time, you don’t need to buy anything. And time is one thing I (like many of us) now have in abundance.

 

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