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Apps for Kids 35: Chip Chain

Mark Frauenfelder at 3:46 pm Wed, Jan 2, 2013

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Click here to play episode. Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 9-year-old daughter, Jane Frauenfelder.

In this episode of Apps for Kids, we talk about Chip Chain, a fun spin on the match-3 genre. We also talk about the Magic Treehouse series of books.

If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to appsforkids@boingboing.net.

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • CaptainPedge

    Really wish you would feature android apps on this segment. :/

  • http://www.facebook.com/aaron.isaksen.9 Aaron Isaksen

    Thanks for the great review, Jane and Mark!  We didn’t originally plan on having the game be such a hit with kids, but all our young neighbors and family friends love it as much as you do…

    Android version will be coming in late January or February.