Free Fun Learning Games for Kids
Dad4Kids is a calm, ad-free home for learning games children actually enjoy. Every game is built around one clear skill, so the time your child spends here is time well spent. Pick a subject and start playing in the browser — nothing to install.
Built for kids across the United States: every game is in American English and organized by U.S. grade levels — from Pre-K and kindergarten through the elementary grades — so it fits right into what American families and classrooms are already learning.
Popular games
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Chess — 10 games
All our chess games in one place: classic, Chess960, antichess, atomic, duck chess and …
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Math Blaster
Math games for 5th graders: decimals, percent, fractions, area, perimeter, volume and solving for …
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Syllable Towers · English
Letter sounds games in the right order: hear a word, tap the letter tiles …
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Syllable Towers · Spanish
Spanish syllables in a real 3D tower defense: ma-me-mi-mo-mu on the tiles, and every …
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Treasure Grid · Map Directions
Cardinal directions on a treasure map: north, south, east and west, then grid squares, …
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Tank Raid · Block Coding
Coding games for kids in the browser: work out a safe route past the …
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Letter Sounds Game for Kids
Alphabet games for kids built like fruit slicing: a voice names the target — …
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Drone Commander · Block Coding
Coding for kids with real block programming: build a sequence, run it, watch it …
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Rocket Lab · Build and Launch
Free rocket games for kids: build 24 real rockets — from the V-2 to …
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Rescue Bot: Wild Station
Rescue Bot: puzzle games for kids, Sokoban-style — push, plan and rescue animals across …
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River Crossing
Play the river crossing puzzle online free: ferry the wolf, the goat and the …
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Chess — 10 games
All our chess games in one place: classic, Chess960, antichess, atomic, duck chess and …
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15 Puzzle
Play the 15 puzzle online free: slide numbered tiles into order, 80 levels from …
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Chaturanga
Play chaturanga chess online free — the Indian board game chess grew from, not …
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Chinese Chess
Play Chinese chess online free: 80 Xiangqi puzzles on a wooden board with a …
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Fox and Geese
Play the fox and geese board game online free: one fox against a wall …
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Go
Play the go board game online free: 80 puzzles with one solution each — …
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Hex
Play the Hex board game online free: connect your two sides with a chain …
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Mini Chess
Play mini chess online free in the browser: a 5×5 board and 80 levels, …
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Oware
Play the oware game online free: the African board game from Ghana, pits and …
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Russian Checkers
Play Russian checkers free online: captures backwards, compulsory takes and flying kings. 80 levels …
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Shatranj
Play shatranj online free — the Persian chess you actually play here, not just …
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Shogi
Play shogi online free: 80 levels of Japanese chess on 5×5 to 9×9 boards. …
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Soma Cube
Play the soma cube online free: seven pieces, 64 shapes to build in 3D, …
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Sungka
Play sungka online free in the browser — no carved boat board to buy. …
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Tablut
Play tablut online free: the Sámi board game on a 9×9 board, 80 levels …
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Anagram Forge · Forge the Word
Play anagram games online free: scrambled letters glow on a smith's forge and the …
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Area Model
Play the area model multiplication game free: split a garden plot into place-value strips, …
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Word Grid
Play Boggle online free: drag through neighbouring letter cubes on a 4×4 or 5×5 …
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Cryptarithm · Letters to Digits
Play cryptarithm puzzles online free: HE+BE=BEE letter addition where each letter hides a digit …
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Eight Queens · Queens & Knight
Play the eight queens puzzle game online free: place queens on a 4×4 to …
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Futoshiki · More or Less
Play futoshiki online free: place numbers so every row and column has each once …
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Hashi · Bridge Puzzles
Play the bridges puzzle (Hashi) online free: connect islands with straight bridges so each …
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Magic Squares · Number Grid
Play magic square puzzles online free: fill the empty cells so every row, column …
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Magnet Maze · Poles and Traps
Magnet games for kids, free online: drop bar magnets into the slots, turn them …
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Matchstick Puzzles · Move One
Play matchstick puzzles online free: every digit is built from lit matches, and moving …
Brain Games for Kids: Free Puzzles That Build Real Thinking Skills 74
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Chess — 10 games
All our chess games in one place: classic, Chess960, antichess, atomic, duck chess and …
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15 Puzzle
Play the 15 puzzle online free: slide numbered tiles into order, 80 levels from …
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Four Player Chess Online
4 player chess online, free in the browser: a cross-shaped board of 160 squares …
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Abalone · Ice Floe
Play the abalone game online free: move up to three penguins in a line, …
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Bimaru · Ship Logic Puzzle
A free battleship puzzle: the numbers at the edges say how many ship squares …
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Brain Kids
Brain games for 5 year olds: 50 quick picture puzzles — odd one out, …
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Brain Kids Pro
Brain games for 7 year olds: 50 mini-games of real grade 1-2 logic and …
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Treasure Grid · Map Directions
Cardinal directions on a treasure map: north, south, east and west, then grid squares, …
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Chaturanga
Play chaturanga chess online free — the Indian board game chess grew from, not …
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Checkers 3D · Knights vs Orcs
Play checkers online free in 3D: real American checkers rules on a fantasy board, …
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Chinese Checkers · star march
Play Chinese Checkers online free: a 3D fantasy star board, six clan armies and …
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Chinese Chess
Play Chinese chess online free: 80 Xiangqi puzzles on a wooden board with a …
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Tank Raid · Block Coding
Coding games for kids in the browser: work out a safe route past the …
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Drone Commander · Block Coding
Coding for kids with real block programming: build a sequence, run it, watch it …
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Four in a Row · Gem Mine
Play the connect four game online free: drop faceted gems down the shafts of …
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Corridor · wall strategy
Play Quoridor (Corridor) free online: race your knight to the far edge while the …
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Dots and Boxes · two farms
Play dots and boxes online free: the pencil-and-paper classic as a 3D farm valley. …
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Eight Queens · Queens & Knight
Play the eight queens puzzle game online free: place queens on a 4×4 to …
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Systems Engineer: Fix the World
Engineering games for kids about real infrastructure — pipes, cables, roads and rail. 100 …
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Fire Brigade
Fire truck game for kids: the engine drives to the call, parks by the …
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Five in a Row · with Captures
The pente game, free online: five in a row with a twist — surround …
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Four Towers · logic duel
One of the short games like chess you can play right now: your rival …
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Fox and Geese
Play the fox and geese board game online free: one fox against a wall …
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Futoshiki · More or Less
Play futoshiki online free: place numbers so every row and column has each once …
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Go
Play the go board game online free: 80 puzzles with one solution each — …
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Five in a Row in the Order of the Runes
Play gomoku (five in a row) free: two young mages lay glowing runes on …
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Hashi · Bridge Puzzles
Play the bridges puzzle (Hashi) online free: connect islands with straight bridges so each …
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Hex
Play the Hex board game online free: connect your two sides with a chain …
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Hidoku · Number Path Puzzle
Hidoku, a free number path puzzle: a few numbers are on the grid and …
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Sum Cages · KenKen
Play KenKen puzzles online free: fill the grid so each row and column has …
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Castle Commander
Castle Commander: listening games for kids where the child builds a castle by following …
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Space Commander
Thinking games for kids: command a starship by reading each situation and thinking a …
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Logic Grid · Detective
Solve logic grid puzzles online free: read the clues, mark ✗ and ✓ on …
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Command Post
Command Post: logic puzzles for kids dressed as a battlefield HQ — deduction, routes, …
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Magic Squares · Number Grid
Play magic square puzzles online free: fill the empty cells so every row, column …
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Magnet Maze · Poles and Traps
Magnet games for kids, free online: drop bar magnets into the slots, turn them …
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Mancala · counting strategy
Play the mancala game online free: the ancient sowing game on a handmade wooden …
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Rune Gates · deduction
Play the mastermind game online free: crack the secret rune code by deduction — …
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Matchstick Puzzles · Move One
Play matchstick puzzles online free: every digit is built from lit matches, and moving …
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Levers, Gates and One Way Through
Maze games where the walls are not the whole puzzle: pull the lever, open …
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Build It From Memory
Memory games that go past matching pairs: study the blueprint, watch it vanish, then …
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Mini Chess
Play mini chess online free in the browser: a 5×5 board and 80 levels, …
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Nim · Campfire Gems
Play the nim game online free: take gems from the campfires — any number, …
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Nine Men's Morris · Fortress Siege
Play nine men's morris online free: place nine warriors on the walls, line up …
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Nurikabe · Island Puzzles
Play nurikabe online free: fill in the water so every number becomes an island …
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Reversi · Dawn vs Dusk
Play the Othello game online free (also called Reversi): flip the 8×8 board from …
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Oware
Play the oware game online free: the African board game from Ghana, pits and …
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Peg Solitaire · firefly puzzle
Play peg solitaire online free: firefly lanterns on a night meadow, 30 solver-checked levels …
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Phases of the Moon
The phases of the moon game, free online: drag the Moon around its orbit …
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Pixel Nonogram · Picross
Play picross puzzles (nonograms) online free: use the numbers beside each row and column …
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Rescue Bot: Wild Station
Rescue Bot: puzzle games for kids, Sokoban-style — push, plan and rescue animals across …
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Riddles for Kids
The riddles for kids game, free online: picture riddles, number riddles and thinking puzzles …
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River Crossing
Play the river crossing puzzle online free: ferry the wolf, the goat and the …
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Cube 3D
Play a Rubik's cube online free in 3D: a glossy 2×2 or 3×3 cube …
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Russian Checkers
Play Russian checkers free online: captures backwards, compulsory takes and flying kings. 80 levels …
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Shatranj
Play shatranj online free — the Persian chess you actually play here, not just …
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Shikaku · Rectangle Fields
Play shikaku online free: cut the field into rectangles so each holds exactly one …
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Shogi
Play shogi online free: 80 levels of Japanese chess on 5×5 to 9×9 boards. …
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Klotski · Sliding Blocks
Play the classic sliding puzzle online free: slide wooden blocks to free the big …
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Slitherlink · Loop Puzzles
Play slitherlink online free: draw one closed loop so every numbered cell has exactly …
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Strategy Game for Kids
Strategy games for kids that are honestly turn-based: plan the route, spend two steps …
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Sokoban 3D
Play the sokoban game online free: push every crate onto its glowing target in …
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Soma Cube
Play the soma cube online free: seven pieces, 64 shapes to build in 3D, …
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Star Battle · Stars in Regions
Play the star battle puzzle online free: every row, column and coloured region holds …
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Modelverse Lab
Math games for 7th graders that tie one story to a table, a graph …
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Sungka
Play sungka online free in the browser — no carved boat board to buy. …
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Tablut
Play tablut online free: the Sámi board game on a 9×9 board, 80 levels …
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Takuzu · Sun & Moon Grid
Play the takuzu binary puzzle online free: no three of the same in a …
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3 Player Chess Online
Three player chess online, free in your browser: three armies on one wide board …
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Sky Engineer Puzzle
Tower of Hanoi game in 3D: move skyscraper modules with sky-cranes, one at a …
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Tower of Hanoi
Play Tower of Hanoi online free: 300 hand-checked puzzles from a classic 3-disc start …
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Traffic Jam · Logic Puzzle
Traffic jam game in a cozy 3D city: slide the cars and trucks along …
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Ultimate Tic Tac Toe · Nine Boards
Play ultimate tic tac toe online free: nine little boards inside one big one, …
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Viking Chess · Hnefatafl
Play viking chess online free — real hnefatafl rules: the king and his retinue …
Free Math Games for Kids — Play in Your Browser 44
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Area Model
Play the area model multiplication game free: split a garden plot into place-value strips, …
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Circle Defence · Circumference and Pi
The circumference of a circle is C = 2πr (or πd). See where pi …
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Cryptarithm · Letters to Digits
Play cryptarithm puzzles online free: HE+BE=BEE letter addition where each letter hides a digit …
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Proof Architects
Proof Architects: a proof math game where kids prove answers, not guess them. 10 …
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Trig Defence · Pythagoras
The Pythagorean theorem is a² + b² = c²: worked examples for the hypotenuse …
Evgenii Arsentev's Math — Arithmetic Games for Kids
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Road Arena · Math Racing
Car math games where answering fires the gun: solve the problem and your battle …
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Sky Guard
Logic games at a first-person flak gun: down the planes by solving 300 puzzles …
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Star Shield · Math Facts
Math facts games for kids in Earth orbit: solve addition, subtraction and times tables …
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Star Mech Fluency Drill
Math facts games with a real mastery rule: five right in a row retires …
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Sword of Sums
Math games for 1st graders: a knight walks ten 3D worlds and every monster …
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Moon Base · Math Defence
Math games for 2nd graders: monsters rush the moon base and only a correct …
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Firing Line
Math games for 3rd graders: short word problems, adding and subtracting past 100, times …
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Drone Patrol
Math games for 4th graders: multi-digit multiplication, division with remainder, factors, equivalent fractions and …
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Math Blaster
Math games for 5th graders: decimals, percent, fractions, area, perimeter, volume and solving for …
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Pirate Fort · Mental Math
Math games for kids on a pirate wall: solve addition, subtraction and more to …
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Math Archer 3D
Math games for 5 year olds that start at counting to 5: an elf …
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Wasteland Chase
Math racing game on a desert highway: compare numbers, spot patterns and solve to …
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Math Tanks
Mental math games in a 3D tank campaign: solve the problem, build the answer …
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Robot Brawl
Multiplication and division games as a full-contact brawl: every correct answer lands your robot's …
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World Rally · Math Racing
Number games for kids where solving is the accelerator: answer and your rally car …
Free Multiplication Games for Kids: Master Times Tables
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True Aim · Multiplication Facts
Practise multiplication facts one row at a time: 2s, 5s and 10s first, then …
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Math Artillery
Multiplication games where the times tables are battle calculations: load the cannons with equal …
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Bigfoot Arena
Times tables practice in a demolition derby: crush the car carrying the right answer …
Function Machine: The Easiest Way Into Algebra
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Sea Battle: Find X
Algebra games where solving is the trigger: work out the hidden enemy's position, type …
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Square Masons · Algebra Formulas
Difference of squares a² − b² = (a − b)(a + b) shown with …
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Function Forge Academy
Function tables made visible: drop an input into the machine, watch the output, fill …
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Parabola and Quadratic Equations
A parabola is the path of a thrown stone. Vertex, roots, the discriminant and …
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Order of Magnitude · Logarithms
Properties of logarithms in plain English: a logarithm counts how many times you multiplied. …
Types of Angles: Acute, Right, Obtuse — and How to Measure Them
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Geo Defense · Area & Perimeter
Area and perimeter on a building grid: fence the yard, floor the warehouse, then …
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Angle Assault
Geometry games for kids where the answer is the attack: measure angles, name shapes, …
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Mars Rover
Geometry for kids inside a Mars adventure: neon figures, cube builds and giant gears …
Reading Games for Kids: Free, Fun Ways to Build Confident Readers 22
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Anagram Forge · Forge the Word
Play anagram games online free: scrambled letters glow on a smith's forge and the …
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Body Quest · Human Body 3D
Human body systems in 3D: heart and blood, lungs, digestion, muscles and bones — …
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Fleet Captain · Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension games for kids: read the report, find the evidence and follow written …
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Rebus Puzzles · Picture Riddles
Play rebus puzzles online free: a picture, a few commas, a letter swap and …
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Word Ladder · One Letter at a Time
Play a word ladder game online free: turn the start word into the goal …
Learn to Read English: The Order That Works, Step by Step
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Letter Sounds Game for Kids
Alphabet games for kids built like fruit slicing: a voice names the target — …
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Reading Buddy · CVC Words
Free practice with CVC words — sun, ant, tap, mad, dog: letter sounds in …
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Find the Letter Game
Letter recognition games where the answer is never on screen: a voice names a …
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Fleet Captain · English
Free reading games for kids that go past sounding out: read a short written …
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Sight Word Games · Build the Word
Free sight word games in the browser: a voice says the word, coloured tiles …
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Find It, Hear It, Keep the Word
A free I spy game online: a voice asks for something — “find three …
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Big A Finds Little a
A free letter matching game: turn two cards and find the pair — capital …
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Syllable Towers · English
Letter sounds games in the right order: hear a word, tap the letter tiles …
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Odd One Out Game for Kids
A free odd one out game for kids: things stand on a carnival stage, …
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Word Wizard · English
Phonics games online free where blending is the only attack: letter sounds, onset and …
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Syllable Castle · English
Reading games online in the order schools teach: build the word from letter and …
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Word Tanks · English Reading
Reading games where reading is the controls: your child reads the word on screen …
The Spanish Alphabet: 27 Letters That Always Say the Same Thing
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Fleet Captain · Spanish
Spanish reading comprehension in a naval battle: read and understand a written Spanish order, …
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Syllable Castle · Spanish
Learn to read Spanish through play: Spanish is highly phonetic (ma-me-mi-mo-mu), so decoding clicks …
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Syllable Towers · Spanish
Spanish syllables in a real 3D tower defense: ma-me-mi-mo-mu on the tiles, and every …
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Word Tanks · Spanish
Spanish reading practice as a 3D tank campaign: build the word from its syllables …
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Word Wizard · Spanish
Spanish phonics as a magic duel: Spanish is highly phonetic (ma-me-mi-mo-mu), so build the …
STEM & Physics Games for Kids — Free Online 9
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Circuit Bastion
Electric circuit games for kids: wire real circuits with batteries, switches and resistors to …
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Eco Defense
A food web game for kids: build the web from producers, consumers and decomposers, …
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Force Forge
Physics games for kids where real forces decide: use levers, pulleys, gears and center …
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Siege Line · Physics in Battle
A physics puzzle game where a young engineer repels giant insect hordes with real …
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Hypothesis Lab
Hypothesis Lab: gentle science games for kids. Make a guess, test it with a …
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Space Explorer · Astronomy
Space games for kids with real astronomy: fly from Earth to the Moon, Mars, …
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Planetarium · Deep Space
Real space pictures for kids: 46 photos from Hubble, Webb and ESO — nebulas, …
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Solar System · Living Atlas
The eight planets in order from the Sun, their names, moons and sizes — …
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Storm Command
A water cycle game for kids where science is the shield: forecast the storm, …
Spanish for Kids: Fun, Free Ways to Start Learning 7
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Castle Siege
Spanish pronunciation practice out loud: see a picture, hear the Spanish word, say it …
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Planet Defense
Spanish games for beginners: hear the word, tap the right picture card and your …
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Spanish Academy
Learn Spanish for kids on pictures: thousands of words across 26 topics and 109 …
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Word Fortress
Spanish word games as tower defense: hear a Spanish word, tap the monster carrying …
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Space Amigo · First Words
Spanish games for kids with a real conversation: build Spanish sentences to talk with …
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Sticker Patrol
Spanish learning games with a chase: learn 12 words a level, then hear the …
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Spanish Tower · Word Defense
A free Spanish words game for kids: defend the castle by tapping the right …
Tangram & Block Puzzles for Kids — Free Online 6
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Castle Keep 3D
3D block puzzles for kids aged 6+: rotate polycube blocks in your mind, fill …
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Auto Factory 3D
Car building games for kids: assemble 500 cars, trucks, planes and tanks part by …
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Castle Keep
Pentomino puzzle for kids, 500 levels: drag, rotate and fit the shapes to fill …
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Rocket Lab · Build and Launch
Free rocket games for kids: build 24 real rockets — from the V-2 to …
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3D Tangram Puzzles
Free tangram game online: 500+ 3D tangram puzzles for kids. Build rockets, castles and …
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Castle Tangram
Tangram puzzles for kids inside a castle-defense adventure: build the silhouette from the 7 …
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By age
- Games for 1st Graders: What This Year Actually Covers
- Games for 2nd Graders: Regrouping, Arrays and the Clock
- Games for 3rd Graders: The Times Tables Year
- Games for 4 Year Olds: First Screen Learning That Actually Teaches
- Games for 5 Year Olds: From Letter Sounds to Real Words
- Games for 5th Graders: Decimals, Order of Operations, First Algebra
- Games for 6 Year Olds: Reading Sentences, Adding Past Ten
- Games for 7 Year Olds: Times Tables, Clocks and Coins
- Games for 8 Year Olds: Division, Fractions and Real Science
- Games for Kindergarteners: The Five Skills That Decide 1st Grade
- Games for Preschoolers: Twelve Minutes, One Skill, No Ads
- Learning Games for 4th Graders: Long Division and Fractions That Match
- Games for 9 Year Olds
FAQ
Are the games free?
Yes — every game is completely free to play in the browser, with no ads and nothing to download or install.
What ages are the games for?
Most games suit children from about 3 to 11, and many adapt to your child's level. Each game shows a suggested age.
What subjects do you cover?
Early math, reading, first Spanish words and logic / brain games — with more on the way.
Do the games work on a tablet or phone?
Yes. They're built tablet-first and also run on phones and computers, right in the browser — no app needed.
Are the games safe for children?
Yes — no ads, no third-party tracking and no personal data collected. No account is needed to play; an optional parent account only saves progress.