Today’s Apps Gone Free: Slidercrash, Teach Phone Number to Kids, Backgammon and More

Solve sliding puzzles, teach your child your phone number through song, and play Backgammon with today’s collection of apps and games.

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iPhone:

Teach Phone Number To Kids ($2.99 → Free, 191.9 MB): Teach your child your phone number with this helpful tool. Parents.

With Teach Phone Number to Kids, your child will be only a song away from safety. All you need to do is add your phone number to the app and it’ll create a personalized song that will help your child memorize it. Join them in singing the numbers out loud along with the interactive band. They’ll have your phone number committed to memory in no time.

Teach Phone Number To Kids is available for free for a limited time. It has a 5-star rating with a total of 7 ratings.

Universal:

Counting Dots: Number Practice ($2.99 → Free, 25.6 MB): Build counting confidence with Counting Dots. Toddlers.

Dots with numbers within them will populate the screen, and your child must tap on them in the correct order to remove them. The game includes popping sounds, vibrations, and smooth animations to keep your child engaged. You can also customize the dots and gameplay in a variety of ways.

Counting Dots: Number Practice is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 58 ratings.

Slidercrash ($0.99 → Free, 42.3 MB): Solve sliding puzzles in Slidercrash. Fans of logic puzzles.

Slidercrash takes the sliding puzzle genre and cranks it up to 11. The goal is to ram matching sliders into each other in order to cancel them out as quickly as possible. You’re able to bounce non-matching sliders off of each other to achieve your goal while also utilizing walls, rails, mirrors, switches, and more. The game includes 60 challenging levels.

Slidercrash is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4.5-star rating with a total of 95 ratings.

Backgammon Premium ($1.99 → Free, 81.8 MB): A digital version of Backgammon from the same team that brought Gin Rummy, Cribbage, Spite and Malice, and Hearts to the App Store. Anyone looking to play a game of Backgammon while on the go.

This is our favorite version of Backgammon in the App Store due to its massive online community. It’s always more fun to play with others, right? You’re able to play turn-based or live games of Backgammon via Game Center. You can choose to play with a friend or see how your skills match up against other players all over the world. The cool part is, you don’t have to sit around and wait to be matched up. You can actually hone your skills against intelligent AI opponents in single player games while you wait for a match to be found.

Backgammon Premium is available for free for a limited time. It has a 4-star rating with a total of 11041 ratings.

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