Stack the States® 2
Education
Ratings
Age
4+
Category
Education
Languages
English
Wed Sep 25 2024
* Updated Minnesota flag
* Changed Barrow, AK to Utqiagvik, AK
Stack the States® 2 makes learning about the 50 United States more engaging than ever. This sequel introduces 3D graphics, new questions, and expanded mini-games like 'Puzzler' and 'Spin the Globe.' Players answer geography questions to earn states, which they then must physically stack on a platform. Balance is key! As you build your collection, you’ll learn capitals, flags, shapes, and landmarks, eventually unlocking the ultimate 50 State Challenge.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
Stack the States 2 is the gold standard for educational apps. It’s rare to find a game that children actually want to play while they're learning something as potentially dry as state capitals and borders. The 3D upgrade in this sequel makes a huge difference; the states feel like real, tactile toys that you're stacking.
The variety of mini-games like 'Spin the Globe' and 'Puzzler' keeps the experience fresh and prevents the 'quiz' element from feeling repetitive. As an adult, I even found myself challenged by the 50 State Challenge! It’s fun, it’s polished, and it’s one of the few games where I feel completely good about my kids spending hours on it. It transforms geography from a subject to be memorized into a world to be explored.
Features
New 3D animated states and cities
Interactive globe and detailed U.S. map
All-new games: Puzzler, Guess the State, and Match
Unlockable '50 State Challenge' mode
Personalized map to track your progress
Tips & Walkthrough
Answer a question about a state's capital or border correctly to earn that state. Once it appears, drag and rotate it to drop it onto your stack. Be careful—if the stack tips over and falls below the platform, you'll need more states to reach the checkered finish line!
Gameplays
The core gameplay combines trivia with physics. You'll learn that stacking a flat state like Nebraska is much easier than balancing the jagged edges of West Virginia. As you successfully reach the goal, you earn a permanent state for your personalized map of the U.S.
Screenshot
Q&A
While designed with kids in mind, the varying difficulty of the questions and the physics-based stacking make it fun and educational for learners of all ages.
Ratings & Reviews
It’s good
Thu Jun 10 2021 yungelliotSo this is actually a pretty good game it’s not too bad so when I came across this game the bar seem to get higher and higher and I like that challenge so I’m giving it a four-star for a reason I have like it so much so I got all the states I finish the whole game and I like how they add the capital but you can look at the capital and you are able to look at the two states that are apart from America I like how the game made that you could look at the two other states and add them to your collection I made my cousin one account it’s pretty easy to make an account my first cousin is 4 the other one is 1 both of my two cousins account my four-year-old cousin wanted her state to be Nevada and I don’t remember what I chose for my one-year-old cousin but I was Missouri
A Nearly Perfect Game
Sat Dec 02 2023 Strech guy fan lol.I really like Stack the States and I literally play it everyday. I feel almost everything about Stack the States is great. The gameplay is fun and it is pretty good to help you learn more about the states. The learn functionality is helpful as without it, the games will be much harder. Earning states from playing the stack game is also good as it gives players a reason to keep playing. It’s nice to keep earning states as prizes and seeing the states cities, landmarks, and elevations. The only thing I don’t like about it is that it is a paid game. It’s only $2.99 and this game is pretty good for what it is however, there isn’t too much to do in the game. Despite being a nice little game for what it is, it really can only last so long, I think about a month or so. I guess it’s a good trade off as this game has no ads or in-app purchases. If you do want to get a game like this, I recommend Stack the Countries. I haven’t played it but I would think that with more countries, there is more content in that game.
You can learn more from stack the states 2 :)
Tue Jul 18 2023 apple_123456789Tbh this game is really fun I had the first one when I was in 2 grade and it is still really fun even if you know your states. This game is better then the 1 one tho because it has better graphics, learn there landmarks, learn there cities and see what the state looks like! You can press on the ones you got (example Colorado where I am from) if you pressed to see what it looks like you can see the mountains and see how talk they are. If you press cities it would say the capital is Denver. And then you could see the landmarks. It is worth the money but one thing is they should change the questions and not say the one question they always say (for example) I press start and it says which flag is Maryland? And I get that the other round. It is kinda a good thing so you can learn it really well but I keep getting it over and over again. So please make some other questions! Other than that is it prefect! 🌸❤️✨
From ages 4-65 we play, learn and improve our health!
Tue Dec 03 2019 Katka15I play several games to keep my 65 year old memory sharp and it never hurts to learn more about my country. After watching, my 4 year old granddaughter wanted to learn. She can’t read so first I’d give clues- letters in the states so she could find the answer. It wasn’t long before she recognized the states by shape and I had her memorize the names. Two weeks later she was playing MAP IT! Most times she maps without strikes. Next Connect It. Her high score is 18, mine 14. Then came my 7 year old grandson. He has the advantage of being autistic, able to read, so caught on in a few days. He has the capitals, states and abbreviations memorized already and has moved on to Stack the Countries. It’s something they can play together. He reads the questions to her if I’m not there. Finding an educational game they can do together is a perk I never imagined. Thank you so much! Now I’m on to Stack the Countries. Challenging for sure, but what an accomplishment if I succeed!
The most awesome game ever.
Fri Dec 20 2019 Mrpuff31I always wanted to learn geography when I was eight years old, so my parents allowed me to have the app when I showed them a video of how to play Stack the States 2. I was loving this app and had educated me, but it was kind of tough when I need to know the state's nickname and landmarks. I noticed I could turn the landmarks and state's nicknames off. This was way more fun when it just wasn't stacking states. It made it way more fun when there were the bonus games, Map It, Connect 2, and Capital Tap. The last bonus game, Capital Tap, was the hardest for me, and I always fail trying to find the capital. However, I rate this a 10/10, and I will love it forever. :)
Amazing but a little hard
Sun Aug 06 2017 Ashleyminuskin28This app is way better then the origanal version. My neices love watching me play even though they have no idea how to play. I love how when you earn a new state you can choose the state you want (well sort of...) i totally recomend this app for kids. I recommended this app to my friend and now my friend knows all the state capitals. I really like that their are setting to change the type of questions you get asked. For example if you want to figure out which flag belongs to which state and which state borders what Ocean you can set those two to work on those
Excellent app. My 4 and 6 year old boys now know all their states and capitals.
Tue Feb 21 2017 MeiswhoibeStack The Countries is equally fun for the kids. One slight complaint, but not enough to impact my opinion... when the question is about what state certain cities are in, such as, 'Salem is in what state?' On some occasions, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Virginia will show up in the choices... all of which have a Salem. Other than that, it's great. I just, for the kids sake, turn off 'cities' in the settings until they understand that the more major cities are what the app is asking for.
Good but…(please see)
Sat Apr 12 2025 Alpha ratingThis app/stack the states 2 is pretty good but there is on only 4 games people can get bored of it very quickly you might want to fix this and also it’s pretty hard for 4 year olds in the games: capital tap, connect 2 and map it and you didn’t add Puerto Rico and the other US territories🇵🇷🇬🇺🇻🇮🇦🇸 and why don’t the Great Lakes have faces? And why can’t you stack Washington DC? And this one is a MUST when you put it on sound why don’t the states have their own voices and also, when you press the button that lets you see the cities it does not let you learn about the city! It just jumps like jelly!