THIS GAME IS GOOD FOR KIDS WHO NEED HELP WITH:

Focus

Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

Sustained attention is a pre-requisite of all games that identify with the puzzle genre. Especially in the case of Where's The Pic?, players have to keep their attention to detail consistent throughout each level. Once players begin to tear away pieces of the puzzle, the image will become a little more clear. For the most part, the word players must solve for is not the image itself, but a related facet. Players will have to think critically about what the image is trying to portray even though they cannot see the whole thing. Solving a puzzle like this with such limited resources takes goal directed persistence, which is the players' ability to see a task through until the end. With Where's The Pic?, players are certainly strengthening their focus thinking skill.

Self-Control

Managing our actions, feelings and behaviors.

Because players are allowed "life lines" during play, they have alternatives when a puzzle is too difficult for them to solve. But lifelines cost coins, a form of in game currency that is accumulated at a slow rate -- unless players pay for additional coins. With each successful rounds, players are usually awarded a small sum of coins that can be used for a number of life lines. The life lines are: remove letters, reveal a letter, more picture reveals, and reveal answer -- the latter being useful only to players who are truly stuck. Players must be able to pick and choose when to use one of the relatively expensive life lines. Even if they are stuck for a few minutes it will be much more rewarding if they can come upon the answer themselves, rather then succumbing to an impulse lifeline purchase.