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CuriosityQuest
A daily-question adventure that builds curiosity into habit.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
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Meet the cast
CuriosityQuest's 10-character cast are each one habit of a curious mind: noticing before naming, trusting a first hunch, digging into the question, staying with not knowing, and changing your mind, plus fair tests, measuring, sorting, trying again and writing it down. Lumen, the mentor, frames each one.
Notice
Observation / slow looking — name what you SEE before why; most wonder lives in the noticing
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Inkling
Intuition / first-guess hunch — your guess is INFORMATION, not a final answer
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Ponder
Deepening the question — 'what does that even mean?' is the foundation, never the failure
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Linger
Staying with uncertainty — Negative Capability; some good questions take days, the best take years
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Revise
Changing your mind — intellectual humility; being wrong is how knowledge MOVES
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Compare
Controlled comparison — the fair test; change one thing, keep the rest the same
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Measure
Quantification — turn a fuzzy word into a number anyone can see
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Sort
Classification — group by one rule and the pattern pops out
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Ditto
Replication — do it again; once could be luck, twice starts to be true
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Jot
Record-keeping — write it down the moment it happens, so a day-old fact is not lost
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What's inside
Learning goal
A daily-question adventure that builds curiosity into habit.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned question kits, 400 questions in all, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Lumen — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How CuriosityQuest handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages
For you, the grown-up
Spark & Whetstone, our free site for grown-ups, tells what CuriosityQuest teaches in a short course of its own.
Free companion pack
Download CuriosityQuest's printable pack
These materials pair with the CuriosityQuest app — print at home, color with your kid, work the puzzle sampler side-by-side, or tape the cast poster to the fridge. No login, no tracking.
Coloring sheet
Line-art versions of the cast — print and color with your kid.
Download PDF →Puzzle sampler
6 representative questions from kit 01, formatted for print.
Download PDF →Cast poster
Single-page cast poster — names, roles, portraits.
Download PDF →Parent letter
A 1-page note from Lumen explaining what your kid will learn.
Download PDF →Generated from the same content the app ships. Reprint freely for classroom or family use.
CuriosityQuest 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
CuriosityQuest 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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