Mummy Candies

Each level is a small chamber with sweets scattered across it and a little mummy to gather them. That sounds undemanding until you notice that the available routes are limited and that taking one item first can strand another beyond reach. The puzzle is one of order, not of reaction time.

That is why we file it under thinking rather than adventure. The work happens before you move: look over the whole room and decide the sequence. Children usually learn this by failing two or three times, after which they start pausing to plan of their own accord, which is a far better lesson than being told to think before acting.

The artwork is warm cartoon work, the mummy is friendly, and nothing in it is designed to frighten anyone, so it plays comfortably alongside a young child. We carry only a handful of collection games at My Urban Eatery, and this is the most approachable of them.