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Bug Hunt
A garden full of sleeping bugs — and every leaf can be opened by thinking, never guessing. Bug Hunt is a friendly no-guess Minesweeper for early readers: each number counts the bugs touching its square, and three simple clues (count them, all-found-means-safe, no-room-left-means-bugs) clear every garden. Stuck? Pebbleback the beetle shows you which number to look at — you still make the move. New garden every day, no timer, no score to chase, on-device, no account. Ages 6-8.
#3F8F4A Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
Bug Hunt's garden crew each embody one clue of logical deduction — the crew IS the reasoning. Nibbin counts the bugs touching a square. Leafa opens the rest once a number's bugs are all found. Scuttle spots when there is no room left, so every hidden leaf is a bug. Mentor Pebbleback, the wise old beetle, asks which number you can be SURE about — and never makes the move for you.
Nibbin
Counts the bugs touching a square — a number tells how many sleeping bugs are next to it
Leafa
Opens the rest: when a number's bugs are all found, every other leaf around it is safe
Scuttle
Spots when there is no room left: as many hidden leaves as bugs means every one is a bug
Pebbleback
(Mentor, the wise old beetle) - asks which number you can be sure about, then lets you make the move
What's inside
Learning goal
A garden full of sleeping bugs — and every leaf can be opened by thinking, never guessing. Bug Hunt is a friendly no-guess Minesweeper for early readers: each number counts the bugs touching its square, and three simple clues (count them, all-found-means-safe, no-room-left-means-bugs) clear every garden. Stuck? Pebbleback the beetle shows you which number to look at — you still make the move. New garden every day, no timer, no score to chase, on-device, no account. Ages 6-8.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Pebbleback — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How Bug Hunt handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
Bug Hunt runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
Bug Hunt is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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