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Shape Detective

A spoken clue describes a shape or asks about its straight sides. Your child chooses a pictured shape or a number. Later rounds include familiar objects representing solids, such as a ball for a sphere. The type of answer changes, so listen to the whole question together.

Play Shape Detective free Ages 4–6

Every game is free for every family until 20 November 2026. No card, no payment.

What it practises

Identify flat shapes from spoken property clues
Count straight sides on pictured shapes
Recognise examples of familiar three-dimensional solids

How the levels grow

Seed Level 1
Sprout Level 2
Bloom Level 3
Flourish Level 4
Shine Level 5

For ages 4–6, levels 1–2 mix flat-shape clues with side-counting questions. Shape-clue rounds offer three options. From level 3, those rounds offer four options and alternate with solid examples, starting with sphere and cube. Level 4 makes cone and cylinder available too. Level 5 adds a five-pointed star clue to the flat-shape pool. All levels have five rounds. Solid choices and side-count answers remain sets of three, even when flat-shape choices expand.

This game is on the Kindergarten path, for ages 4–6. Good play climbs a level; a hard day holds it, and a level earned is never taken away.

What you might notice

Does your child trace the sides with a pointing finger?
Do they listen for a flat shape or a solid?

Try it at home

Draw a large triangle and square on scrap paper. Point along each straight side once and count together. Invite your child to describe a clue for one drawing while you guess. They can point instead of giving the shape's name.

Not in this game: The game does not practise measuring angles or describing every property of solids.

Home-learning units that use it

KG 1: Solid Shapes
KG 2: Shapes: Sides and Corners Puzzles and Logic
Ready for Class 1: Halves, Quarters and Turns Print a Cooperative Picture