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Osmo review: Hands-on iPad games with real pieces give kids new ways to play

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The iPad can be tons of fun for kids, but the trick is to balance hands-off activities like watching a movie with hands-on projects like making your own. Osmo (https://www.playosmo.com/) is hands on—it’s a set of iPad games played with real-world pieces, and unique stand with a red plastic piece that redirects the iPad’s front-facing camera to the game pieces as your child interacts with them on a table or floor.</p><p>
The three companion apps—Tangram, Words, and Newton—offer a range of experiences, from peacefully assembling tangram puzzles with wooden pieces, to flinging letter tiles onto the table to spell a word faster than your friend, to dreaming up solutions to a physics-based puzzler by drawing on paper or building contraptions with everyday items.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2452546/osmo-review-hands-on-ipad-games-with-real-pieces-give-kids-new-ways-to-play.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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