Balanced Pebbles

For grown-ups

Play Balance

You choose how long your child plays. It works the same way in every Balanced Pebbles game.

Every day

1 h

How it works

  • Pebbles and minutes

    Time comes in pebbles of 15 minutes, with the minutes beside them.

  • Your plan

    A daily balance, the same every day or day by day. Or play sessions, with a break between.

  • Fair warning

    A note and a chime at 5 minutes and at 1 minute.

  • A level always finishes

    When time runs out mid-level, the level plays to its end, up to 10 more minutes.

  • Resting, not locked out

    The rest screen says when play comes back.

  • Your PIN

    Off until you set it up. The PIN guards these settings and nothing else. Remove it, and play has no limits.

The screens

  • Play Balance's first screen: a smiling stack of three pebbles, Balance play time, and a Set it up button.
    Set it up

    Off until a grown-up turns it on.

  • Daily balance, day by day: a week strip with each day's pebbles, Monday selected at 30 minutes, minus and plus buttons, and quick choices.
    Day by day

    Tap a day, then − and +.

  • A level being played, with a small chip in the top corner showing the pebbles and minutes left.
    While playing

    A small chip shows what's left.

  • A note over the level: Time's up, finish this board!
    Time's up

    The level finishes first.

  • The rest screen: a sleeping stack of pebbles, Time to rest, See you tomorrow, and a Grown-ups button.
    Resting

    It says when play comes back.

  • The grown-ups' page: today's pebbles, Add a pebble today, the plan, Change PIN and Remove PIN.
    For grown-ups

    More time today, the plan, the PIN.

Shown in Whirly Bolts. Each game draws Play Balance in its own colors.

Forgot the PIN?

There's no reset, so nobody can get around it. Here's how to start again.

The plan and the PIN stay on the device, and the PIN is kept only in scrambled form. Privacy