Riddler vs ExploreGames
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Riddler
Engage your mind with hundreds of witty and funny riddles. Solve puzzles by guessing words, progressing through levels, and utilizing hints. Choose your challenge with easy, medium, and hard modes.
- Hundreds of riddles
- Word guessing gameplay
- Multiple difficulty modes
- Hint system
- Level progression
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Do you know which letter of the alphabet has the most water? Or what happens when you throw a white rock into the Red Sea? Can you guess the word? Enjoy this puzzle with hundreds of riddles. Some witty, some funny but all are fun. Solve the riddle to move to the next level. Tap a letter to form a solution. Tap a letter in the solution to clear it. Use a hints (at a cost) to either remove unused letters or suggest next letter. Use menu to switch between easy, medium and hard mode.
ExploreGames
Engaging games designed to boost a child's cognitive skills like memory, pattern recognition, and logic. Offers various themes and educational approaches to make learning enjoyable and effective.
- Brain power development
- Memory enhancement
- Pattern recognition games
- Logic skill building
- Curiosity fostering
- Themed game worlds
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Grow brain power, curiosity, and resilience with ExploreGames! Make learning fun through games that develop your child’s memory, pattern recognition, logic, and knowledge. Choose from your favorite themes: Bugs, Cars and Trucks, Into Space, Magical Creatures, and Under the Sea Complement your schools’ curriculum with proven, effective foundations drawn from the best of Common Core and Montessori methods.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ExploreGames at none against Riddler's shown. ExploreGames also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Riddler's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Riddler against 5.0 for ExploreGames. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Riddler ships an update every 7 months, ExploreGames every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Riddler | ExploreGames |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GASP Mobile Games Inc | Nelson Don Lai |
Customer experience
Riddler
ExploreGames
In-app purchases
Riddler
No in-app purchases
ExploreGames
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Riddler free?
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