Pick something to play today

Number recognition & sequence — pop floating numbers.

1-to-1 correspondence — drag exact amounts of food to a plate.

Logic & sorting by color and size.

Naming feelings from character expressions.

Slow, deep breathing to calm down — Beary is asleep, and his tummy rises and sinks with the breath.

Rhythm and listening — tap the notes as they land; the tune plays on whatever you miss.

Cause and effect in colour — pour two pots and a new one comes out, and it says its own name.

Drawing together from one prompt, each on their own device, then handing out hearts.

The same questions for both of you, half a screen each — and the round waits for everybody.

Keeping your eyes on your own water while somebody else is fishing in theirs.

Choosing without being read — and finding out that varying your hand is the skill, not winning.

Judging force and direction at once, and seeing that things which touch each other change the result.

Reading a number off its dots without counting, and adding what landed in the ring.

Choosing between scoring your own small one and knocking the other end’s nine out.

Addition & subtraction — drop physics blocks on a scale. (6–7)

Time & money — act as a cashier. (6–7)

Multiplication & division — steer into the right answer. (8–9)

Slice pizzas to learn fractions. (8–9)

Ordering and swapping along a trail — alone, or two of you on half a screen each.

Real situations with nothing to score — choose, then see what happens next.

Holding several clues at once, then naming the thing they all point at.

Answering quickly and accurately at once, with somebody sitting right beside you.

The question is on the television and the buttons are in everybody’s hand — no clock, so the youngest is not chased.

Hand and eye together, and reading where the ball will land before it gets there.

A slower beat and a heavier ball — waiting for the moment instead of swinging at it.

Reading something that keeps slowing down — a shuttle never arrives at the speed it left.

Force, direction and one bag knocking another — the last throw can still change everything.

Adding one to nine under a little pressure, with the same nine at both ends.

Solve multi-step equations to hack digital vaults.

Turn negative self-talk into growth-mindset statements.

Attention under interference — the word says one colour, the ink is another, the ink wins.

Media literacy — spot the line that is working on you before deciding to pass it on.

Deduction in three forms — liars and truth-tellers, a safe from its clues, and sixty case files.

Eight questions, two players, one screen — finishing first and being most right are two separate honours.

A room answering together from their own phones, and a score that belongs to the house.

Two of you across one screen, or one of you against a computer that says how hard it plays.

Daily Sudoku, memory matching, and visual sequence puzzles.

Crosswords and word games to keep neural pathways firing.

Sudoku with no numbers in it — every row, column and box gets one of each.

Three stones each on the tea-house board — against an opponent who says how hard it plays.

The seven days in their Thai colours, the day either side of any day, and the twelve months.

Half a proverb and half a screen — play it with a grandchild, at the same table.

The grandchildren hold the phones; the questions are on the screen where they can be read comfortably.

A game you already know how to play, with a bigger bat if you want one — and a grandchild at the other end.