Number Munchers
Games
Ratings
Age
4+
Category
Games
Languages
English
Thu Oct 09 2014
This app has been updated by Apple to prepare for watchOS 27 compatibility. No new features are included.
- Number Munchers is now iPad native!
- Updates for iOS8
- Minor Gameplay Updates
- Minor Visual Updates
- Bug fixes
Inspired by the iconic educational classic, Number Munchers challenges your math skills in a fast-paced arcade environment. Navigate the grid to find multiples, factors, primes, and more. But stay alert—the Troggles are out to stop you! With multiple difficulty levels and a variety of mathematical topics, it’s the perfect game for students and adults looking to keep their brains sharp.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
Number Munchers is a nostalgic trip back to the classroom, but with a modern mobile polish that makes it surprisingly difficult to put down. For those who grew up with the Apple II version, the DNA is all here: you control the Muncher as it hops around a grid, eating numbers that fit specific mathematical rules while avoiding the 'Troggles.' It’s the gold standard of 'edutainment'—it actually makes you sharpen your mental math without feeling like a chore.
The game scales beautifully from basic multiples to more complex prime numbers and equations. The touch interface is snappy, which is vital when a Troggle is closing in and you're trying to find that last multiple of 7. It’s simple, clean, and incredibly effective at what it does.
Features
Classic arcade gameplay updated for touchscreens
Covers Multiples, Factors, Primes, Equality, and Inequality
Vibrant graphics and fun animations
Local and Global leaderboards to track your high scores
Tips & Walkthrough
Troggles move in predictable patterns. Watch their movement before entering a row. If you are cornered, remember that eating a correct number gives you a brief window of safety, but your priority should always be clear paths to the safe zones.
Gameplays
In the Prime Numbers mode, you must identify numbers only divisible by 1 and themselves. This mode moves faster and requires quicker thinking as the grid populates with larger numbers.
Screenshot
Q&A
It's designed for ages 6 to 99! Difficulty levels range from basic addition to advanced prime number identification.
Ratings & Reviews
Read before munching
Tue Jul 10 2018 Hutt huttBought this app hoping to revel in some 80s-era Number Munchers fun with my kids, but a few factors need fixing. First, as other reviewers have noted, this app requires users to double tap faster than most younger kids consistently can. Second, even on the Easy setting, this game progresses in difficulty so quickly as to be dispiriting. Third, there’s an occasional bug in which you will have munched all the correct numbers, but the level won’t clear. A few tweaks could make this a real winner.
Was Hoping It Worked
Sat Apr 04 2020 1980'sWorked-2020DoesntEVERY SINGLE TIMD IT ERRORS OUT AND SHUTS DOWN after multiples of 4! How can this be!? It worked in the 80’s on a floppy disk but can’t work in 2020 after I PAID for it? I’m beyond annoyed! I loved number munchers as a kid. I wanted to help my kiddo post corona-virus quarantine with her math skills. Unfortunately, when we make it past multiples of 4, it just completely errors out, shuts down, kicks us out and we have to start again at 2’s. It’s unfortunate and honestly annoying to PAY for an app that worked in the 80’s on floppy disks, but apparently, in 2020 this developer can’t make work and makes you pay for it! Honestly I want my money back (yes I know it’s $2), but I feel hosed and I literally never review anything. That’s how crappy this app is!
Levels
Sat Nov 09 2019 KW-OBTRMy kids love the app, but they won’t experience the way I did on a green screen with a 3” floppy disk and logging in using DOS. The only complaint I have is it advertises 250 levels yet the program kicks us out at level 3 on equality and factors all other level 5 is the end of the line. If you log in again, you have to start over with first level and again get kicked off at same levels. Not much fun.
Used to love this app
Mon Oct 12 2020 sazimmI used this app on floppy disk and when I tutored children in the 90s and early 2000s. When I moved in to our son’s and daughter in law’s house to help with remote learning, I trotted this our and our granddaughter immediately fell in love with the program . The problem is that the game quits after level three each time. Can you help?
Needs addition too?
Sun Sep 23 2018 munchermasterBrings me back to my childhood, playing this game! While there are a few bugs to fix like the auto-progression sometimes glitching, etc. I would also like to see addition and subtraction options added. That way it could also appeal to a younger crowd, like kindergarten or first grade. My second grader I know would have a lot of fun on this but could use the reinforcement on those skills too.
Great game, double click is too fast
Wed Dec 28 2016 Deal loverJust like the childhood game as I remember it. Great fun for my kids. In order to munch a number you need to double click it. But the double click has to be very very fast to be read as a double click. My 8 year old can barely do it. And when I do it I miss the double click every once in awhile which is annoying.
Awesome
Fri Jan 15 2021 @ the worstThis is the best game ever I definitely recommend it gives you a short movie and then you can basically one like all the levels super easy fun for kids definitely recommend get this app my kids love it so much it’s like they’re addicted
Love the Game / Hate the Crash
Fri May 15 2026 kam82It’s exactly as I said in the title. This game holds a special place in my core memories as a game that taught me my facts. Unfortunately now the game has been abandoned and it crashes after just a few levels. Making the experience very frustrating for those who are new like my Littles, who are learning their facts for the first time.
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