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Waterfall

Spotting a letter quickly, under the gentlest kind of time pressure

Ages 4-7 Letters and phonics Free, no sign-up

How it plays

Letters tumble down the screen. Along the bottom sits a row of boxes, each labelled. Your child drags a falling letter into the box that matches before it reaches the floor. A letter that gets away simply disappears — there's no penalty and nothing is lost.

What it's for

Spotting a letter quickly, under the gentlest kind of time pressure. Your child sets the difficulty on the first screen — how fast things move, how many there are — so the game meets them where they are rather than deciding they aren't good enough.

There is no score to lose, no timer running out on them, and no way to fail. A level ends when it's won. That's the only way it ends.

What it costs, and what we collect

Nothing, and nothing. There is no account, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. Which games have been played is remembered on your own device and is never sent anywhere. The full version is here, and it's short.

The letters came down in a terrible fall, From the top of a cliff that was frightfully tall, We caught them in boxes, the big and the small, And that's how we made you a Waterfall!

Where it lives

Waterfall lives in The Rustly Bush — letters and phonics. It works on a phone, a tablet or a classroom screen, and once it's been opened it keeps working with no signal at all.