On the first visit, a grown-up can type the child's name or a pet name and the child picks a buddy: Mimi the kitty, Bun the bunny, Honey the bear or Sprout. The buddy sits under the answers in every game and shows each message in a speech bubble. It jumps for joy at a right answer, looks surprised and sends a little heart after a wrong one, and nods along while counting or joining dots. Tap the buddy and it jumps with a happy pop.

Pick a game from the menu. A question appears at the top, such as "Find the number 3" or "Find the circle", and it is spoken aloud. Tap the speaker button to hear it again.

Tap the answer you think is right. Little mode shows 3 big choices and uses numbers 1 to 5, the letters A to H, five basic shapes and five colours. Big mode shows 4 choices with numbers up to 10, the whole alphabet, eight shapes and ten colours.

Each game starts small and grows with the child. Little mode begins with just three items, so the first number rounds only use 1, 2 and 3. Every three first-try right answers unlock one more item ("Level up! Here comes number four!"), and the next question asks for the new one straight away. If a child needs the glowing hint, the game eases off again. Big mode starts with five items and grows the same way. The small "Lv" badge at the top shows the current step, and each game and age group keeps its own progress.

The two age groups look different so it is easy to tell which one is on: Little mode is the cream Little Garden with clouds, flowers and butterflies, and Big mode is the mint Big Jungle with palm trees, parrots and crisper tiles.

In Counting, a group of pictures appears. Tapping each picture puts a number on it, so the child can count along, then the child picks how many there are. In Matching, the child finds the picture that is the same as the big one at the top.

A wrong tap is shown in red with a little wiggle, with a soft "boop" sound, and the bubble names what the child picked ("That's number 5. Let's try again!"), so even a mistake teaches a new word. The questions are read aloud; right answers get a quick "Yay!", "Hooray!", "Woohoo!" or "Yippee!" over a different happy sound each time (a chime, a cheering crowd, a party horn, a "ta-da" or a xylophone run), and wrong ones a gentle boop, so the game keeps moving. Level-ups and every fifth star get a fanfare with a cheering crowd. Tap any tile after a right answer to jump straight to the next question. That tile rests so the remaining choices get easier. After two tries, the right answer starts to glow.

The Draw & trace games are played by dragging a finger (or a mouse) across the board. In Dot to Dot, the child joins numbered dots in order and a picture appears at the end. Touching the wrong number turns that dot red and the game says which number to look for next.

In Lines & Patterns and Trace It, a green dot shows where to start and a dotted path shows where to go. Ink that wanders off the path turns red with a kind "let's stay on the dotted line", and a bar fills up as more of the path is covered. In Colour Inside, the child picks a crayon and fills a box or circle; crayon outside the edge fades and the edge flashes red as a reminder.

Every correct answer earns a star, a happy sound and a burst of confetti. Every fifth star gets an extra big celebration.

Stars, the chosen age group, the sound setting, the child's name and their buddy are saved in this browser only. There is no account and nothing is uploaded. The name is optional, and "Name & friend" on the menu changes it at any time.

Play together for the first few rounds. Say the question with your child, point at the choices and name them out loud.

Keep sessions short: five to ten minutes is plenty for a toddler. Stop while it is still fun.

Celebrate a wrong tap as much as a right one. The red tile is a nudge to look again, not a failure, and naming what they tapped builds vocabulary.

Move to Big mode when your child answers most Little questions without help.

For the drawing games, let your child use their pointer finger on a tablet or phone. Slow, steady strokes matter more than finishing quickly, and "Start again" wipes the board whenever they want a fresh go.

• Numbers — recognising the written numerals 1 to 10.
• Letters — recognising capital letters, each with a picture word ("B is for bear").
• Shapes — circle, square, triangle, star and heart, plus rectangle, oval and diamond in Big mode. Shapes come in mixed colours so children learn the shape, not the colour.
• Colours — naming and finding common colours.
• Counting — one-to-one counting by tapping each object, then matching the total to a numeral.
• Matching — visual discrimination: spotting the same animal, fruit, vehicle or toy among similar ones.
• Dot to Dot — number order and controlled straight lines. Little mode joins 2 to 5 dots to make a line, mountain, triangle, square or house; Big mode goes up to 10 dots for a star, heart, fish, sail boat or house with a chimney.
• Lines & Patterns — the pre-writing strokes: straight, standing and slanting lines and a rainbow curve in Little mode, then waves, zigzags, bumpy hills, castle steps and cursive-style loops in Big mode.
• Trace It — tracing the outlines of shapes and the numerals 0 to 9, each drawn as a single stroke from a green start dot.
• Colour Inside — controlled scribbling: keeping the crayon inside a big box or circle, then smaller and taller shapes in Big mode.

Buttons are large and spaced apart, the layout works on phones and tablets, and there is nothing to type. Sounds are soft and the wrong-answer tone is a gentle "boop", not a buzzer. Animations are reduced automatically if the device asks for reduced motion.

There are no adverts, links or pop-ups inside the play area, and the home button only returns to the game menu, so a child is unlikely to wander off by accident. The link back to the rest of the site sits at the bottom of the menu screen, where grown-ups can find it.