← Back to the playgroundFOR PARENTS & TEACHERS

Small games.
Useful discoveries.

Sandbox is a collection of free, touch-friendly games covering math, money, geography, logic, words and relaxing play. Play together, talk about a strategy, and try again. The six math games offer five-challenge trails with explanatory hints and optional read-aloud instructions. Other games have their own short rounds and guides.

Start with a comfortable challenge

The money and math games are designed around ages 6–9. For the other games, choose by reading confidence and experience rather than an age label. Read clues together when needed. These are practice activities, not formal assessments; medals are device-local progress, not evidence of mastery.

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Privacy in our games

These games do not ask for names, email addresses, or accounts. Medals and the sound setting are stored in this browser on your device. Clearing this site’s browser data clears those preferences. Optional read-aloud plays site-hosted synthesized recordings for supported instructions. Other sentences use an available browser speech service; voice availability varies by device.

The site uses a Google Ads tag to measure visits from our ads. Advertising and analytics storage, advertising user data, and ad personalization are disabled. Google may receive cookieless measurement requests, including ordinary request information such as your IP address and browser details. We do not send names, answers, medals, or game activity to Google. The hosting provider processes ordinary web requests, and Google Fonts supplies the typefaces. All game pages use that restricted Google tag. The math playground also uses Google Fonts; the five additional games otherwise use local assets and system fonts. Pocket Money also has an in-game grown-up guide.

Suggestions and sharing

Suggestions use the game currently open and a short period without interaction while the page is visible. This is temporary page state, not a profile of a child or a claim about their feelings. You can dismiss suggestions or choose another game yourself. Sharing opens your device’s share options or copies a clean game link. Answers, progress and campaign tags are not included; the site does not access your contacts.

Optional usage statistics

If enabled, a random browser identifier is stored for 30 days to count approximate distinct browsers and new or returning sessions. Sessions restart after 30 minutes without a measured page load. Only approved campaign categories, broad traffic sources and device categories are sent to our first-party service. Identifiers are hashed on the server; daily distinct-count sketches and totals expire after 35 days. We do not store an individual browsing or gameplay history or use this data for advertising. You can disable this in Usage statistics settings; existing aggregate totals cannot be linked back to or removed for an individual.

Your feedback

Use “Feedback” to rate an experience, report a problem or suggest a game topic. You can choose an answer and optionally write a comment of up to 500 characters. Please do not include names, contact details or other personal information. Comments are visible only to our team and stored in Upstash for up to 30 days; daily answer totals are kept for up to 90 days. Feedback is not linked to a player identifier or used for advertising.

Gameplay measurement

We count page loads, game starts, solved challenges, hint requests, completed trails and engaged visits. We store only totals by reporting date, hour, game and approved campaign label for up to 13 months. Measurement uses no cookies or player IDs. We do not collect names, individual answers, full URLs, ad click IDs or location for these totals. Counts measure visits and actions, not unique children or return visits. Our Vercel hosting receives ordinary request information; aggregate counters are stored in Upstash Redis. Requests are not retained as individual gameplay records by our collector. Contact ward.nicholas@gmail.com with privacy questions.

Advertising plans

We are exploring clearly labeled advertising outside the game boards. Ads are not displayed inside the games. The Google Ads measurement tag helps measure our campaigns promoting this site.

Who makes the games?

BFC Labs creates and maintains The Sandbox. Read about the collection or contact us to report a broken game or ask a question. Please have an adult send messages and omit information about individual children.

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