Bubble Guppies Play House Combines Sandbox Gaming and Math

Splash screen for Bubble Guppies Playhouse educational game in the Noggin app
Education, Games

In Bubble Guppies: Play House!, pre-school players have the ability to decorate the Guppy household as they please. With a massive selection of furniture, appliances, decorations, and toys to use, players can place, rearrange, and interact with them all in a robust sandbox experience.

A screenshot of Bubble Guppies: Play house showing the sandbox gameplay

To earn new items for their home, players are tasked with completing a set of math-pattern puzzles that scale with their abilities, adapting to their skill level. The math activities are carefully designed to hone player sorting and pattern recognition skills, giving them little hints as they go. For each set of puzzles they complete, they get a new item to decorate their home and interact with. With 4 large rooms to fill, including a kitchen, with stock-able fridge, and plenty of snacks to go in it, a bedroom with toys, and living room with big-screen tv, basketball hoop and drum-kit.

A screenshot of Bubble Guppies: Play house showing the sandbox gameplay

The guppies themselves can be placed anywhere in the room, including on furniture, can hold and interact with items. Players can take an apple from the cupboard and place it in Nonni’s hands and watch him devour it in one bite. They can drag a new shirt and hat from the bedroom drawer to give Zooli a new look.. The quest for more decor, and experimentation of leads kids down a continuous path of practicing more patterns and upping their math skills.

A screenshot of Bubble Guppies: Play house showing the math/pattern learning activity
Kids learn sorting math principles, such as how to use and understand Venn Diagrams

 

Bubble Guppies: Play House! was designed and developed by Workinman Interactive in collaboration with the brilliant team at Noggin. It’s available in the Noggin App.

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