Number Munchers app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 4416 ratings )

Games Education Educational Family
Developer: MotivCode

1.99 USD

Current version: 3.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 09 Dec 2009
App size: 18.73 Mb

Welcome to the game of eating numbers and equations while avoiding being eaten yourself! This classic game is now available for your enjoyment on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Just like the old-school game you used to play but now blended with some new twists! Youll enjoy it as much as you did back in the day and now you can pass along the fun you used to have to your kids. They probably wouldnt be caught dead using the original hardware this ran on!

Your hero is Muncher. Youll be directing his movements and eating habits while on your quest. Your objective is to eat the correct numbers or equations based on the heading of the level you are on. But be warned: there are creatures out there called Troggles that will get in your way! You may remember some of those shady characters: Reggies, Helpers, Bashfuls, Workers, and Smarties.

Without the hardware of your Apple ][ handy, you now move around the grid by touching a box. To eat the contents of a box, double touch it. Since you are no longer restricted to moving one box at a time, you must learn how Muncher moves to be successful at avoiding Troggles!

For every correct answer you eat, you receive points. Once you have eaten all of the correct answers you will move onto the next level. You will lose one of your Munchers if an incorrect answer is eaten or you cross paths with a Troggle. The game is over when you are out of lives. You can briefly keep yourself safe from Troggles while inside of the roaming safe box. After every three levels you can sit back and watch a short, classic movie of Muncher taking care of business. When your game is over, you may be fortunate enough to have made it into the world-wide hall of fame!

There are five basic types of levels for you to play:

- Multiples: only eat multiples of the given number.
- Factors: only eat factors of the given number.
- Primes: only eat prime numbers.
- Equality: only eat equations that are equal to the given number.
- Inequality: only eat equations that are NOT equal to the given number.

You may also play all types together in series or in random order. As you progress in each type the difficulty increases. There are 250 distinct levels awaiting you!

Varying levels of difficulty are available to challenge your math skills. Also, as the difficulty goes up, more troggles will come after you and you will have fewer spare Munchers on hand. The harder you make it the more points you will receive per eaten correct answer.

Have fun!

Pros and cons of Number Munchers app for iPhone and iPad

Number Munchers app good for

One of my favourite games when I was a kid! Thank you for making this available! I never thought I would find this here. Now all we need is Word Munchers and were set!

This brings back great memories and is so much like the original. Thanks and well done!

omg i cant believe this best best computer games of all time i was such a pro back then haha and now that its out for the iphone have to do it all again thanks Apple ;)

What a great game! Its just like the old Apple II game but with improvements. It was an instant buy for me.

Omg!! As soon as I saw it in the store I knew I had to get it!! And it was awsome!!! And cheap!!! Its great!!! Get it!!

I loved this game when I was in grade school and still enjoy it to this day. The game is as great as I remembered it to be. One drawback is that the game does not save if you return to the home screen.

Some bad moments

This is a fun game in theory, but it often crashes on the Ipod Touch. So its a bit frustrating.

I used this game to learn multiplication tables when I was young. Now, as a professional math tutor, I was excited about the opportunity to use this with my students. What makes this game work is that you are learning while having fun-- the fun coming from the avoidance of troggles. But the only level for multiples for which troggles are in play is normal, which starts with multiples of 12. Since this is obviously inappropriate for a 2nd grader just learning the tables, this means all that is really available for this learner (on the easy level) is a game where you try to guess multiples -- no avoidance of enemies, no race against the clock, no fun. This is a huge problem. I would have many students purchase and use this game if this were fixed. (while this is a more minor point, I might also mention that students love the cartoons they get as rewards for completing a level, an that a variety of these would be an additional plus.)

Im a middle school teacher, so this app is useless to me unless the single-digit multiples have monsters. With no monsters theres no game. Please fix this!

The challenge on the top of the screen is blocked by the time and battery bar. Currently it is impossible to play as a result of this.

Cant see the challenge. Its blocked by the time bar at the top. Therefore I wasted my money!!!

Tried the easy, multiples mode on iPad. After muncher walks into a troggle, double tapping to eat a number stops working! Also, double tapping is annoying, and pressing the same square a second time should let you eat a number. This would be MUCH easier.

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