{"id":15634,"date":"2012-01-03T20:22:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=15634"},"modified":"2018-12-23T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T06:25:47","slug":"wheres-my-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/01\/03\/wheres-my-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Where’s My Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swampy the alligator has a problem. He lives in the city sewers and needs water for a bath. Unfortunately, that water isn\u2019t reaching his bath shower head because the pipes have all got messed up. Can you help him?<\/p>\n

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And so it goes for Hannah\u2019s newest thing. It\u2019s actually a lovely app created by Disney called \u201cWhere\u2019s My Water?<\/a> \u201c, and can be had for cheap at USD0.99. The game requires our girl to figure out little puzzles on how to guide water flow from source to Swampy\u2019s bath shower. The game comes packed with hundreds of puzzles, and some of the later ones are fiendishly difficult even for adults.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also become quite a bonding moment for daughter and daddy whenever we indulge in a puzzle or two each night for 15 minutes, and our girl will thereafter run excitedly to mommy explaining the different things she has been trying to solve each water puzzle.=)<\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t, of course, the only physics based puzzler around for tablet or mobile devices. There\u2019s the ubiquitous Angry Birds. But for some reason, Hannah never got quite into that even though she recognizes the animal creatures anywhere – she\u2019ll point at the animal plush toys at a toy store and say \u201cAngry Birds!!!\u201d. On the other hand, she\u2019s loves Where\u2019s My Water!<\/em><\/p>\n

As to fears on whether she\u2019ll get hooked; it doesn\u2019t look like it. She still very much loves the train set Ling bought her for Christmas, and still wants us to read with her her prayer book, or to do stickers with her.=)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swampy the alligator has a problem. He lives in the city sewers and needs water for a bath. Unfortunately, that water isn\u2019t reaching his bath shower head because the pipes have all got messed up. Can you help him? And<\/p>\n

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