$3.99/$2.99
Toy Balls! HD for the iPad (get ToyBalls for the iPhone here) serves up eight different kinds of balls with unique properties. Pool balls are heavy, super balls are bouncy, wooden balls are slippery, and so on.
It’s your job—or your kid’s job—to swipe them away in matching groups of three or more as they drop onto the game board. If you don’t hustle, they’ll pile up and be toasted by electro-zappers. This ends the game.
Why we like it:
Probably our favorite thing about this app is the option to change the music theme. Choices include Feel Good, Ball Magic, Wonderland and others—fun! Graphics are great and vanquishing the balls as they bounce, hop, and slide across the screen is a pleasure for anyone.
There are unique challenges as you advance. Don’t let the scales tip one way or another. Don’t let the balls spill off the curved ramp. Don’t let the waterwheel spit your balls at the zapper.
If you’re obsessive about getting the higher scores, here are two tips: 1) Be patient (zapping three balls at a time isn’t as good as zapping six), and 2) Be quick (your best moves often present themselves before the balls settle.
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We tested version 1.0, which is compatible with the iPad. Requires IOS 3.2 or later (there’s an iPhone version too). Cazual Games. Read our disclosure policy.
Toy Balls totally rocks! My preschooler loves it. He also loves the Mobile MUM App. He can watch Sid the Science Kid (his favorite) whenever he wants. I love that Mobile MUM is entertaining as well as educational – guilt free Apps rock!
Herein lies the problem with computer games. At this age a child should be experiencing these very qualities though his/ her hands. If they have not held a pool ball then he would not really ” know”. That a pool ball is heavy or that another ball is bouncy. They are all just balls unless it is told by the parent but then they still would not ” know” what it really is like. I had student that perfectly described a computer ” design your own” pinball game. I asked him where the ball went . He gave me a funny look and walked away . A few days later the parent mentioned that it was on the computer. Now it made sense. It LOOKED and rolled like a ball but the child did not know it was a ball in the game. It was just a moving ” thing”