Your Kindle Fire has a gyroscope inside: a little device that “tells” your Fire when you turn or tilt it. This feature enables game app developers to create marble maze apps where the player guides a marble by tilting the tablet. Some other marble maze apps employ a kind of joystick instead. Some examples of these apps are:
Sky Maze 3D (3.5/5 stars, all ages, FREE today only as Amazon’s Free App of the Day)
Dodge the traps, find your way and guide the ball to exit. A fun and challenging action game.
– Cool 3D effects, beautiful graphics and sound
– Support for Zeemote controller
– 9 different tile types
– 50 challenging levels
Plunk! (4.5/5 stars, guidance suggested due to in-app purchasing capability, currently FREE)
Inspired by handcrafted puzzles, each Plunk! level challenges you to navigate gorgeous marbles through a wooden labyrinth. Tilt your phone or tablet in all directions and use gravity to roll the marbles past holes and into their targets. The first levels will test your hand-eye coordination as you maneuver one marble around, between and sometimes over fiendishly placed holes. Afterward, the difficulty escalates as two, three, four, or more simultaneous marbles force you to come up with increasingly complex plans.
Built to sound and feel real, this game will remind you of time spent playing the classic wooden marble labyrinth in your childhood, but will take you further by offering level after level of intricate challenges. Feel free to either play at your own pace and unlock the levels one-by-one or race the clock and earn silver or gold awards by finishing quickly.
The individual levels in Plunk! vary from straightforward to truly brutal in difficulty. It is surprising how clever they can be – sometimes seeming impossible until you discover the trick. The game can be frustrating at times, but this level of challenge is always rewarded by the satisfaction it gives in completing each puzzle. No one likes being completely stumped though, so if you get stuck on a level that seems unsolvable, use a key to unlock the next one and move on. Players start with two keys and more can be earned in the game by winning enough gold awards or by purchasing them… Once you have had more practice, don’t forget to return to the skipped levels and try them again!
Plunk! is a game that requires constant spatial thinking in order to guide the marbles safely to their targets. Numerous studies have shown that playing this type of game can provide lasting improvements in spatial reasoning, a skill which is important in everything from assembling furniture to solving complex problems through the use of graphs and diagrams. In education, for example, it has been shown that students with higher spatial reasoning skills are more likely to succeed in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
“A recent meta-analysis showed substantial improvements in spatial skill from a wide variety of interventions, including academic coursework, task-specific practice and playing computer games that require spatial thinking.” – Nora S. Newcombe, Professor of Psychology at Temple University
Whether you are playing for fun, to relax or to stretch your brain, Plunk! will keep you rolling for hours.
PLEASE NOTE: This app lets you purchase digital content using actual money. You can configure parental controls for in-app purchases, which will require your Amazon account password or a 4-digit PIN, by going to the Settings menu from within the Amazon Appstore.
Cosmic Roller (5/5 stars, all ages, currently priced at 99 cents)
Go on an amazing cyber-journey through a galaxy of vivid high-definition spacescapes with Cosmic Roller!
Your goal is to enter the portal at the end of each stage by navigating your icy cosmic comet through a labyrinth of 20 colorful mazes. Score maximum points by collecting Point Crystals and accumulate Time Extension Crystals to gain portal entry before your time expires.
Each maze level features a different HD spacescape and gradually gets harder as mazes progress from easy to very complex. Control and maneuver the Cosmic Roller by tilting your device. Particle effects float off the Cosmic Roller as it glides through a labyrinth of cool visual effects.
Labyrinth Kindle Tablet Edition (4.5/5 stars, all ages, currently priced at 99 cents)
Labyrinth is the classic game where you control a steel ball by tilting a wooden labyrinth.
Carrying around a bizarre wooden box and small steel balls with the look of fierce competition in your eye may work the intimidation factor, but in all honesty, you are likely to just end up with sore arms and no friends. Thank the heavens that Labyrinth is now available for device. The principle remains the same: navigate a small ball through and around sporadically placed trap holes.
Tilt the “board” and use the remarkable gravity and physics technology to get the ball from one end of the board to the other. Over 175 levels and different play modes make Labyrinth a great game for the entire family!