On this page:
1. Signing in & finding your way around
Every player has their own account so their progress is saved. Sign in at the login screen, and you'll land on the home page — the arcade's main menu.
The home page has three areas
📚 Learn & Grow
Educational games — Learning Quest, Capital Quest (state capitals), Lemonade Tycoon, Money Masters, and a whole family of tycoon games: Business, Beach Resort, Dental, Dermatology, and Doctor Tycoon.
Educational games — Learning Quest, Capital Quest (state capitals), Lemonade Tycoon, Money Masters, and a whole family of tycoon games: Business, Beach Resort, Dental, Dermatology, and Doctor Tycoon.
🕹️ Arcade
Action, adventure, racing and sports games — including Ball Master, Volley Stars, Kart Racers, and Super Strikers.
Action, adventure, racing and sports games — including Ball Master, Volley Stars, Kart Racers, and Super Strikers.
🎲 Classic Games
Board games and retro classics like Chess, Checkers, Snake, and Mine Sweeper. Chess, Checkers, Connect Four and Tic Tac Toe have a 🌐 Online mode: pick it, and anyone in the family who is logged in and on the same game shows up in the lobby — tap Challenge and play live! Pong Party has it too — the challenger hosts the match and both of you defend the bottom paddle on your own screen.
Board games and retro classics like Chess, Checkers, Snake, and Mine Sweeper. Chess, Checkers, Connect Four and Tic Tac Toe have a 🌐 Online mode: pick it, and anyone in the family who is logged in and on the same game shows up in the lobby — tap Challenge and play live! Pong Party has it too — the challenger hosts the match and both of you defend the bottom paddle on your own screen.
At the top you'll see your email and a Log out button (parents and admins also see extra links there). At the bottom are helpful links: 💬 Feedback, 💡 Suggestions, and 🔊 Sound help. Inside any game, a 🏠 Home button brings you back, and it asks "are you sure?" so no one leaves by accident.
💻 Some games work best on a computer and say so on their card. Everything in Learning Quest works on a phone, tablet, or computer.
2. How Learning Quest works
Learning Quest is the big learning adventure. Open it from the Learn & Grow section. Here's the flow:
- Pick your character. Play as Khloe or Karter, pick one of the family's approved heroes, or make your own cartoon hero from a photo (see below).
- Pick your grade level (1–12). This sets how hard the questions are and which worlds are available.
- Choose a world from the map. Worlds are grouped into learning paths (School Subjects, Languages, and more).
- Complete the activity. Most worlds are a short set of questions; a few are special (reading, typing, spelling — see below).
- Earn stars. You get up to ⭐⭐⭐ in each world depending on how well you do. Missed some? Play it again to raise your score.
- Win the Golden Brain Trophy 🏆 by earning 3 stars in every world for your grade.
Your progress saves automatically, so you can stop any time and pick up right where you left off — even on a different device.
📷✨ Make your own cartoon hero
Tap Make your own cartoon hero on the Pick-your-hero screen. You'll see a short explanation first and tick a box to agree, then choose a photo (a head-to-toe shot standing straight works best — avoid bright green clothes). An AI artist (Google Gemini) removes the background and redraws the photo as a cartoon in about 10–20 seconds. You get to look at it first: tap Try another photo if it's not right, or give it a name and tap Use this hero.
🔒 Privacy: the original photo is never saved — only the cartoon is kept. Your new hero is visible only to you until the arcade admin approves it (you can still play as it right away). Once approved, your cartoon hero is shown to everyone in the family as a character they can pick too — in Learning Quest and in the arcade and board games. You can remove your hero any time from the hero screen, and admins can remove any hero.
🤖 Your Quest Coach
Learning Quest now has a built-in coach that watches how you answer and helps you get better at exactly the things you find hard:
💡 Practice This — miss a question and the coach slips in two fresh questions on the same skill a little later in the round (look for the 💡 badge). They earn points but never lower your stars, so they're a free second chance.
😌 Steady or 🎯 Adaptive — pick your challenge level on the world map. Steady keeps every question at your grade. Adaptive gives you a 🎯 harder question after three right in a row, and a 🌱 easier warm-up after two misses — the quiz bends to match you.
🎯 Smart Review — the "Your Coach" card at the top of the map builds a personal 10-question round from your weakest skills of the last three weeks: the exact questions you missed first, then more of the same kind. It gives points, not stars, so play it as often as you like.
🏁 Coach time — at the end of a round the questions that got away come back one more time so you leave knowing the answer.
🧑🏫 The coach also looks at how everyone is doing across the whole arcade and suggests new practice, lessons and games to the admin — so if a skill is tricky for lots of players, extra content tends to show up for it.
3. Kinds of learning activities
Most worlds ask multiple-choice questions, but several teach in special ways:
📖 Story Studio — read a short passage, then answer questions about it. The story can be read aloud to you.
⌨️ Keyboard Quest — a typing tutor with an on-screen keyboard and translucent hands that show which finger presses each key.
🔤 Spelling Bee — two levels! Classic: pick the right spelling, then fill in missing letters. 🔥 Advanced: you only HEAR the word and must type the whole thing from memory.
🐉 Language worlds — a spoken "Teach Me" mode reads each word and phrase aloud and shows what it means, plus a quiz.
🏔️ Pronunciation Peaks — hear words spoken, find rhymes, and practice sounding like a pro.
♟️ Chess Castle — illustrated strategy lessons that tell you exactly where to move and why (read, don't quiz).
📖 "Teach me" lessons — every Think & Explore and Career world offers a short lesson matched to your grade BEFORE the quiz, with read-aloud buttons. Learn first, then play.
🔥 Focus Forge — not a quiz at all: three brain-training mini-games (repeat the gem pattern, sort by switching rules, tap stars but never bombs) that exercise memory, flexibility, and self-control.
🔊 The reading, spelling, and language activities speak out loud. If you don't hear anything, check the Sound help guide.
4. Learning activities by grade level
Every world adjusts its content to the grade you pick — the same world gives a 1st-grader simple questions and an 8th-grader challenging ones. Here's what's available.
Available at every grade (1–12)
📖 School Subjects
⛰️ Math Mountain — number puzzles & math skills.
🦁 Science Safari — animals, planets & experiments.
🌴 Reading Rainforest — stories, words & comprehension.
🌍 Geography Globe — maps, continents & landmarks.
📖 Story Studio — read a passage, answer questions.
⌨️ Keyboard Quest — learn to type.
🔤 Spelling Bee — hear & spell words.
🌍 World Languages
🐉 Mandarin Palace
🌮 Spanish Fiesta
🥐 French Café
🪔 Hindi Haveli
🏛️ Latin Colosseum
🗣️ Communication
🏔️ Pronunciation Peaks — hear words & rhymes.
🌱 Life & Character Skills
⏰ Time Town — telling time, then real time management: beating procrastination, planning your week.
🧠 Think & Explore
♟️ Chess Castle — strategy lessons.
🤖 AI Lab — robots & smart machines.
🔌 Logic Gates — AND, OR, NOT & boolean thinking.
💻 Code Camp — programming fundamentals.
🔥 Focus Forge — brain-training mini-games for memory, flexibility & self-control.
🪞 Mind Mirror — metacognition: learn to watch your own thinking.
⏳ Procrastination Lab — the science of "I'll do it later" and how to beat it.
⚖️ Decision Dojo — smart choices, trade-offs & brain traps like sunk cost.
🧠 Brain Builders — neuroplasticity: how practice literally rewires your brain.
💼 Real-World & Careers
🩺 Medical Marvels — the body, medicine & the doctors and inventors who changed lives.
🧴 Skin Smart — skin, sun safety & dermatology.
🦷 Bright Smiles — teeth, dental health & dental careers.
🛡️ Safety Shield — how insurance works.
💼 Finance Firm — saving, investing, brokerage & accounting.
🧪 Chemistry Lab — atoms, reactions & famous chemists.
Just for grades 1–5 🌱
🎯 Self-Discipline Dojo — waiting your turn, finishing before playing, when-then plans, and bouncing back after a broken streak. This world retires after 5th grade.
Unlock in 2nd grade and up (grade 2+)
Once a player reaches grade 2, six character-building worlds appear:
🗣️ Speak-Up Springs — speaking up with confidence.
🗺️ Planning Peaks — goals, priorities & getting organized.
🦁 Leadership Lagoon — leading and encouraging others.
🐴 Responsibility Ranch — responsibility & follow-through.
💜 Kindness Kingdom — empathy & kindness.
🧗 Grit Gorge — perseverance & never giving up.
Unlock in 6th grade and up 🌐
🌐 Global Powers — geopolitics: how countries trade, form alliances, and compete — from borders and chokepoints to soft power and supply chains.
🎓 Every grade gets a map sized for them: about 30 worlds in 1st grade and 36 worlds from 2nd grade up (the character worlds join at grade 2, the Self-Discipline Dojo hands off to Global Powers at grade 6).
How the difficulty grows
To give a feel for the range, here are a few worlds at the youngest and oldest levels:
| World | Grade 1 | Grades 8–12 |
|---|---|---|
| ⛰️ Math Mountain | Counting & simple addition | Slope, factoring quadratics & function notation |
| 🔤 Spelling Bee | cat, dog, sun | reconnaissance, idiosyncrasy — dictation-only in Advanced |
| 🔌 Logic Gates | "AND means both" | De Morgan's laws, proofs & valid vs. sound arguments |
| 💻 Code Camp | Putting steps in order | Big-O, hash tables, race conditions & technical debt |
| 🩺 Medical Marvels | The heart pumps blood | CRISPR, mRNA vaccines & the road to residency |
| 🪞 Mind Mirror | "Notice when you feel stuck" | Calibration, Dunning-Kruger & retrieval practice |
| 🧠 Brain Builders | "Practice makes pathways" | Long-term potentiation, BDNF & critical periods |
| 📖 Story Studio | Short 4-sentence stories | Katherine Johnson & supply-and-demand passages |
5. For parents
Parents can follow along with their children's learning:
👨👩👧 My Kids dashboard — once an admin links your account to your child's, a My Kids link appears in your top bar showing each child's grade, stars, points, and last-played date. You can view, never change, their progress — and you never see other families' data.
🛡️ Admin page — admins can create accounts, reset a grade, manage family links, and open any player's progress to see exactly which worlds are mastered, in progress, or not yet started. A Quest Coach tab shows which skills players miss most and the coach's proposals for new content — every suggestion or problem report sent through the site becomes a proposal the admin can implement, revise or decline.
6. Getting help
From the bottom of the home page you can always reach:
- 💬 Send feedback — share a suggestion or report a problem.
- 💡 Suggestions board — see everyone's ideas and vote for your favorites.
- 🔊 Sound help — fix audio if the spoken activities are silent.
🌟 Ready? Head to the arcade, open Karter & Khloe's Learning Quest, pick your grade, and start earning stars!