A Great Refresher

This is a nifty little app that puts fun and personality into learning the basics of U.S. geography. The trivia games help sharpen your skills on such basics as state abbreviations, capitals, and their positions ("Which of these states borders Missouri", or "Which of these states borders Canada?") and even their shapes. When you get the right answer, you try to build a stack of the states by placing and rotating them so that they can reach the line. Larger states "weigh" more than smaller states so putting Texas on top of a precariously stacked group can actually knock them all off!

The bonus games are a lot of fun, too. Trying to knock states out of the Tetris-like falling states before they stack above the line is a challenge because you have to really know your state shapes in any orientation, as in "Click on Alabama" when Alabama, Mississippi, and Minnesota are all in the stack, but each is rotated a random way. It has three modes, Easy, Medium, and Hard. I cant beat hard yet. Two more bonus games on the screen that I still need to unlock. We bought this for our daughters but my wife and I are having a great time with it, too!

Supports separate "logins" for multiple players and keeps a "High Score" tracker as well.

Note that were playing this on 27" and 24" iMacs and its a little "tall" on the screen. Would likely not fit on my 13" MacBooks screen. Look for the developer(s) to fix this before buying if you have a small (low-res) screen.

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