Brainy Baobab
Seven quick thinking games under a friendly baobab tree. Little ones match pictures and finish colour patterns; older players and adults tackle number sequences, logic sets and harder opposites.
Play Brainy Baobab
Quick facts
- Subject
- Thinking Skills
- Levels
- Little Seeds (ages 3–5), Big Branches (ages 6–9), Brainy Baobab (ages 10+ and adults)
- Games inside
- 7 short games
- Play time
- 7 games · 2 min each
- Help
- Read-aloud, big buttons, keyboard play
- Cost
- Free forever · No sign-up · No ads
How to play
Choose who is playing, then pick a game. Every round is short, and the results screen shows what you learned and what to practise. Stars are saved on your device only.
- 🃏 Pair Hunt: Turn over two cards at a time and find the pairs. Play alone or pass the phone with up to 6 players.
- 🫥 Gone Missing: Study the pictures, then spot which one has vanished.
- 🔍 Odd One Out: Find the one that doesn’t belong, and learn why.
- 🧩 Pattern Path: Colour patterns for little ones; doubling, square numbers and Fibonacci for older players.
- 🔦 Shadow Show: Which picture made the shadow?
- 🏞️ Habitat Hop: Help each animal find where it lives: sea, river, rainforest, desert, farm, ice or grassland.
- 🔁 Flip Side: Find the opposite, from hot and cold to “temporary” and “permanent”.
What players learn
Working memory, visual memory, sorting and classifying, spotting patterns and number sequences, recognising shapes, animal habitats, opposites and reasoning about why something does not belong.
For teachers and parents
Thinking games build the skills underneath every subject: memory, attention, classifying and spotting rules. Use Pair Hunt as a pass-the-phone class game, or project Odd One Out and ask pupils to explain their reasons before revealing the answer.
Brainy Baobab supports UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education).