Parents' Guide to

Bluster!

By Amanda Bindel, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 6+

Competitive play gives word-matching game a fun boost.

App iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad Free Education
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What’s It About?

Choose from three levels of play. A list of words appears across the screen, and kids follow the instructions to drag three words into place. For example, "Match 3 words that rhyme," or "Match 3 words that have the same prefix or suffix." Play is timed and can be paused by tapping the sun. Kids can play solo against the clock, cooperatively with a partner, or against another player. Kids race against time and weather to match as many words as possible. Fun play with more than 800 words.

Is It Any Good?

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BLUSTER! includes many levels of play to match kids' current skills. Level 2 includes rhyming words, prefixes, and synonyms. Level 3 includes prefixes and suffixes, word roots, and homophones. Level 4 includes rhyming words, prefixes and suffixes, and adjectives. Oddly, there's no Level 1. In solo mode, kids only make word matches. In the competitive mode, bad weather comes through to slow players down, which is frustrating for the affected player but exhilarating for the other player. Getting the words to drag properly or scrolling through the list gets a bit tricky when kids are going for speed. In the team and competitive modes, the iPad screen works beautifully as a table-top game.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Since Bluster! has both cooperative and competitive options, play with your kid in both modes.

  • Play word games verbally. Take turns naming different rhyming words, words that begin with the same prefix, or words that are homophones.

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