Colors United helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Focus

Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

Playing this game may seem simple enough: change the blocks until they are all one color. But the player has to do it in as few a moves as possible. This means they need to ignore internal and external distractions and keep their attention on the blocks of color. If they don’t, they will end up picking a color that claims few or no new blocks. The size of the puzzles also varies from level to level. This means that the player will be using short-term focus skills in some puzzles and long-term focus in others. Either way, if the player doesn’t maintain focus, they will fail to achieve the goals of each level and be unable to unlock new or bonus levels.

Planning

Developing a systematic approach for setting and achieving goals.

Although it may not be as hard as algebra, these puzzles still have problems to solve—and that requires the player to use their planning skills. First is the short-term planning. The player needs to decide which color to switch to next. But there is also longer-term planning: of the available colors to claim, which makes the most sense for the over all level. Because the player also has to be thinking about the total number of moves available, as well as the bonus goal. If the player doesn’t keep these things in mind and make a plan, they will fail to reach one or both of the goals and will have to replay the level.