Comparison

Question Sleuth vs Math Games 1st Grade

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Question Sleuth

A language game for two or more players where one person hides a star behind a picture and others guess its location by asking questions. Customize categories and play for all ages, making it ideal for families and educators.

Highlights
  • Picture-based guessing game
  • Secret star hiding mechanic
  • Process of elimination gameplay
  • Customizable image categories
  • Use camera or web images
  • Suitable for all ages
Features
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Calling All Sleuths! Are you clever enough to ask the right questions and find the hidden star? Give it a try with this delightfully entertaining language game designed for two or more players. Pick a player to secretly hide the star behind a picture and let everyone else compete to find it through the process of elimination. Use our image categories or go ahead and make your own using the iPad's camera, your photos or search from the web. Question Sleuth is a great way to practice categories, attributes, "wh" questions, articulation or whatever you like. Game play can be customized for all ages and makes a great family activity! Though designed with educators in mind, Question Sleuth is a fun, imaginative and engaging game to play with family and friends as well.

About

Math Games 1st Grade

Engage young learners in a medieval adventure to master first-grade math skills. This app offers interactive games covering counting, number sequences, addition, subtraction, and more, with a reward system to keep children motivated.

Highlights
  • Nine learning areas
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Individual feedback and hints
  • Three-tier reward system
  • Counting and number sequences
  • Addition and subtraction practice
  • Inverse equations and bridging through ten
Features
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Connie lets your child experience plenty of great adventures in the Knight's Castle while practicing all of the important math problems taught during the first year at school. The app was developed in cooperation with educationalists and designed specifically to enable playful learning. HIGHLIGHTS • Nine learning areas, unlocked by completing them in a defined order. • Various difficulty levels to adapt the learning games to the child's current knowledge. • Individual feedback and learning hints. • Three-tier reward system for long-term motivation. LEARNING AREAS 1. Counting The dragon Merlin gets red spots from sneezing. And they don't disappear until your child has counted them all. 2. Number sequences Treasure chests are stacked in the treasury of the Knight's Castle. The treasurer has numbered them and cast a spell so that they can only be opened in the right order. 3. More, less or equal Felix the mouse wants to get to his girlfriend Emily. Unfortunately, there are a few gaps in the battlements that prevent him from reaching his damsel. Your child is asked to help by slotting the correct symbol (greater than, less than or equal to) into a gap on the wall between a series of numbers. 4. Adding The king and the queen keep their crowns in a shelf. They need your child to help them add them all up. 5. Breaking up numbers Two canons are used to practice breaking up numbers. Your child is asked to load the canons in such a way that the numbers on the balls add up to a certain number. 6. Subtracting Sammy the spook makes some of the knights' helmets on the shelf disappear during the witching hour. Your child is asked to subtract the transparent helmets from the opaque ones in order to solve the task. 7. Swapping places The residents of the castle have gotten their clothes mixed up on laundry day. To solve the exercises, your child is asked to find the swapping tasks that belong together and then calculate the results. 8. Inverse equations The bats need to be put to bed. Your child is asked to find the matching pairs of bats with the same math problems and then calculate the inverse equation in each case. 9. Bridging through ten In this math problem, knights help your child to solve addition and subtraction equations by breaking down the summand/subtrahend to ten and then adding/subtracting the rest. SUPPORT If you have any questions, please feel free to shoot us an e-mail (apps@carlsen.de). We’ll be more than happy to answer them for you!

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

Question Sleuth and Math Games 1st Grade both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Math Games 1st Grade's written reviews are positive against 67% of Question Sleuth's. Math Games 1st Grade also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 29 months) and chart position (#190 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Question Sleuth costs $1.99 and Math Games 1st Grade $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Question Sleuth against 5.0 for Math Games 1st Grade. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Question Sleuth's written reviews are positive against 100% of Math Games 1st Grade's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Question Sleuth ships an update every 29 months, Math Games 1st Grade every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Question Sleuth versus Math Games 1st Grade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuestion SleuthMath Games 1st Grade
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28 — better
Update frequencyEvery 29 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank—#190 — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS10.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZorten Software, LLCCarlsen Verlag GmbH

Customer experience

Question Sleuth

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

Math Games 1st Grade

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Question Sleuth

No in-app purchases

None

Math Games 1st Grade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Question Sleuth free?
Question Sleuth costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Math Games 1st Grade free?
Math Games 1st Grade costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Question Sleuth or Math Games 1st Grade?
Question Sleuth and Math Games 1st Grade are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do Question Sleuth or Math Games 1st Grade have ads?
Neither Question Sleuth nor Math Games 1st Grade shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Question Sleuth or Math Games 1st Grade?
Question Sleuth ships an update every 29 months, and Math Games 1st Grade every 2 days. Most recently, Question Sleuth was updated on October 2, 2026 and Math Games 1st Grade on October 12, 2026.

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