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WitQuest
Comedy RPG adventure for ages 9-14 — explore the kingdom of Laughtonia where humor is the combat mechanic, defeat villains with puns and riddles, collect comedy gear, and interact with AI-driven NPCs who remember your joke style.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
👥 Pass-and-play available
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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#9C5DC4 Characters who teach
Meet the cast
WitQuest's characters each teach one kind of wordplay or comedy. Quirk makes puns, Knot solves riddles, Switch rearranges letters into new words, Lilt explains idioms, and Hop finds an unexpected angle. Trip, Dry, Boomerang, Topper, and Straight cover the rule of three, deadpan delivery, callbacks, topping a joke, and the setup person who makes the joke land. Mirth is the mentor who guides them.
Quirk
Puns and double-meanings
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Knot
Riddles (compressed-info puzzles where you decode the answer from constrained clues)
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Switch
Anagrams (rearranging letters to form a different word — "listen" → "silent")
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Lilt
Idioms and figurative language (phrases whose literal meaning ≠ their actual meaning — "raining cats and dogs")
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Hop
Lateral thinking (finding a non-obvious angle on a problem; sidestepping the assumed framing)
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Trip
The rule of three (two beats set a pattern; the third breaks it — the break is the laugh)
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Dry
Deadpan delivery (saying something ridiculous with a calm, serious face — the flat delivery is the joke)
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Boomerang
The callback (bringing back an earlier joke later, when it's half-forgotten — funnier the second time)
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Topper
The topper / escalation (capping a joke with an even bigger one, raising the stakes each time)
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Straight
The straight man / the setup (reacting normally so the absurdity stands out — comedy needs someone to be normal)
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What's inside
Learning goal
Comedy RPG adventure for ages 9-14 — explore the kingdom of Laughtonia where humor is the combat mechanic, defeat villains with puns and riddles, collect comedy gear, and interact with AI-driven NPCs who remember your joke style.
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 Mirth — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How WitQuest 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
WitQuest 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
WitQuest 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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