Last updated on June 11th, 2023 at 04:30 pm
Number Munchers
Number Munchers is one of the best $1.99 to play game in the App Store.
Developed by MotivCode, Number Munchers is a Education game with a content rating of 4+.
It was released on 9th December 2009 with the latest update 9th October 2014
Whether you are a fan of Education, Family, games, you will find this game interesting and will absolutely like it.
Rating
174 people have rated 3.0
You can download the game Number Munchers from APP STORE.
Description
Welcome to the game of eating numbers and equations while avoiding being eaten yourself! This classic game is now available for your enjoyment on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Just like the old-school game you used to play but now blended with some new twists! You’ll enjoy it as much as you did back in the day and now you can pass along the fun you used to have to your kids. They probably wouldn’t be caught dead using the original hardware this ran on!
Your hero is Muncher. You’ll be directing his movements and eating habits while on your quest. Your objective is to eat the correct numbers or equations based on the heading of the level you are on. But be warned: there are creatures out there called Troggles that will get in your way! You may remember some of those shady characters: Reggies, Helpers, Bashfuls, Workers, and Smarties.
Without the hardware of your Apple ][ handy, you now move around the grid by touching a box. To eat the contents of a box, double touch it. Since you are no longer restricted to moving one box at a time, you must learn how Muncher moves to be successful at avoiding Troggles!
For every correct answer you eat, you receive points. Once you have eaten all of the correct answers you will move onto the next level. You will lose one of your Munchers if an incorrect answer is eaten or you cross paths with a Troggle. The game is over when you are out of lives. You can briefly keep yourself safe from Troggles while inside of the roaming ‘safe box’. After every three levels you can sit back and watch a short, classic movie of Muncher taking care of business. When your game is over, you may be fortunate enough to have made it into the world-wide hall of fame!
There are five basic types of levels for you to play:
- Multiples: only eat multiples of the given number.
- Factors: only eat factors of the given number.
- Primes: only eat prime numbers.
- Equality: only eat equations that are equal to the given number.
- Inequality: only eat equations that are NOT equal to the given number.
You may also play all types together in series or in random order. As you progress in each type the difficulty increases. There are 250 distinct levels awaiting you!
Varying levels of difficulty are available to challenge your math skills. Also, as the difficulty goes up, more troggles will come after you and you will have fewer spare Munchers on hand. The harder you make it the more points you will receive per eaten correct answer.
Have fun!
Updated on 9th October 2014
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Number Munchers is now iPad native!
- Updates for iOS8
- Minor Gameplay Updates
- Minor Visual Updates
- Bug fixes
Number Munchers Reviews
Works just like the one from our childhood!!! Thanks for making such a cool app.
This is a great app it is super fun and easy to use and you learn a lot from this awsome game we do a contest with factors.
We used this app on floppy disk and when we tutored children in the 90s and early 2000s. When we moved in to our sons and daughter in laws house to help with remote learning, we trotted this our and our granddaughter immediately fell in love with the program . The problem is that the game quits after level three each time. Can you help?
This game is a great update to the old number muncher game! Great graphics and works perfectly on our iPhone and iPad. Please make a word muncher game next!
This app is everything you would expect out of a number munchers game. The only issue we have is our son has trouble double-tapping fast enough to munch the numbers.
We love this game but each time we make it to level 4 it will go to our home screen please get rid of this bug.
This is the best game ever we definitely recommend it gives you a short movie and then you can basically one like all the levels super easy fun for kids definitely recommend get this app our kids love it so much its like theyre addicted.
It is a fun game similar to the game we played as a kid. We just wish it didnt only let you play 3 levels then go out of the game.
Reminiscent of childhood scholastic fun but app crashes after a couple rounds consistently.
Our kids love the app, but they wont experience the way we did on a green screen with a 3 floppy disk and logging in using DOS. The only complaint we have is it advertises 250 levels yet the program kicks us out at level 3 on equality and factors all other level 5 is the end of the line. If you log in again, you have to start over with first level and again get kicked off at same levels. Not much fun.
Bought this app hoping to revel in some 80s-era Number Munchers fun with our kids, but a few factors need fixing. First, as other reviewers have noted, this app requires users to double tap faster than most younger kids consistently can. Second, even on the Easy setting, this game progresses in difficulty so quickly as to be dispiriting. Third, theres an occasional bug in which you will have munched all the correct numbers, but the level wont clear. A few tweaks could make this a real winner.
Love this game from our childhood. Using it now with our kids. The game has some glitches though where it just closes after playing the videos after a couple of levels. We hope they fix this soon!
It wont actually download. We hope it will remember that we bought it if we remember to go to the store to play. Thats troubling. Possibly related problem, it stops after about 3 rounds. The original Number Munchers was fun so we were excited to see this. Too bad it doesnt quite play right or download right.
Just like the childhood game as we remember it. Great fun for our kids. In order to munch a number you need to double click it. But the double click has to be very very fast to be read as a double click. Our 8 year old can barely do it. And when we do it we miss the double click every once in awhile which is annoying.
Brings us back to our childhood, playing this game! While there are a few bugs to fix like the auto-progression sometimes glitching, etc. We would also like to see addition and subtraction options added. That way it could also appeal to a younger crowd, like kindergarten or first grade. Our second grader we know would have a lot of fun on this but could use the reinforcement on those skills too.
Please make a number muncher game for basic math facts and subtraction! Please please.
Our favorite part and main reason we bought this was in the original you could watch little cut scenes after beating a couple levels.
This game is ok but WHERE IS THE WORD MUNCHER GAME? Help or someone please create this!!! The word muncher game is much better than the number munchers!
After eating all the prime numbers, we can’t figure out how to move onto the next level; because it isn’t automatically doing it!
This game gives nostalgic vibes of hectic thinking and clicking. Only problem is, you cant get past the third round. The game crashes every time. We gave it two stars because its still a little fun to play. Needs to be updated or something to fix whatever bug it has.
We keep getting kicked out after 3 rounds! Super annoying since the app was not free.
After playing three rounds it closes. Why is that? We would like a refund until you fix this bug. And where is WORD MUNCHER?
This app crashes after only a few levels of play. Very disappointing.
Game was fun till it crashed in every category after completing level 4. Super lame.
They kept to. The 80s nostalgia but the app isnt stable.. It crashes every time after beating levels 3 and 6.
Love this blast from the past but after 3 levels it shuts down :(
Game wont function after three levels on easy. Double tap is also difficult for 4 year old.
This game came to our mind as a favorite of all time. We decided to search and omg it was there. Long story short, it keep resetting after level 3 which times out the app the the home screen. Disappointed because its a paid app.
Play any game, finish the third level, and the app crashes. Every game, three levels and out. This is with the latest version of the app and the latest version of iOS (Jan 2020). Avoid this app until it is fixed.
Tried the easy, multiples mode on iPad. After muncher walks into a troggle, double tapping to eat a number stops working! Also, double tapping is annoying, and pressing the same square a second time should let you eat a number. This would be MUCH easier.
EVERY SINGLE TIMD IT ERRORS OUT AND SHUTS DOWN after multiples of 4! How can this be!? It worked in the 80s on a floppy disk but cant work in 2020 after we PAID for it? Im beyond annoyed! We loved number munchers as a kid. We wanted to help our kiddo post corona-virus quarantine with her math skills. Unfortunately, when we make it past multiples of 4, it just completely errors out, shuts down, kicks us out and we have to start again at 2s. Its unfortunate and honestly annoying to PAY for an app that worked in the 80s on floppy disks, but apparently, in 2020 this developer cant make work and makes you pay for it! Honestly we want our money back (yes we know its $2), but we feel hosed and we literally never review anything. Thats how crappy this app is!
We would give this game a higher rating if it didnt automatically shut down after 3 rounds of playing the game. If we had read more of the reviews, we wouldnt have spent $1.99 on a game that we cant fully enjoy. When/If this bug is fixed, then we might rate it higher. Until then, its not even worth a free download.
Closes after finishing multiples of 4- every SINGLE time- on 2 different mediums (phone or iPad)… Again it worked always as a kid on a disk like someone else mentioned on 4/4/2020… Bought for our kid and disappointed as we would have liked to get higher than 4s…
It only works past level 4. Total waste of money.
Shuts off at completion of level 3. Not happy.
App times out and kicks us off after 3-4 levels of play. Not sure how to fix. And to think we paid money for this.
Like other reviewers have said, there is a bug in the system that kicks us out after completing multiples of 4 EVERY time. Once that is fixed, this app is just as great as it was back in the day!
An update has not been released in 5 years. The game crashes after level 3. Not worth it. Developers are trash!
The game crashes after completing the 3rd stage EVERY TIME. Not worth the money.
App crashes every time after finishing multiples of three.
Continually shuts down, often after 1 round. Not worth money. They owe us a refund.
Crashes after a few levels every time. The difficulty settings are not appropriately scalable for different ages. This is not the game we grew up with.
We play it anyway because of the nostalgia. We are just hoping that there will be more levels in the future since the levels presently are repetitive and not advancing as it should. And we hope this game will stop crashing all time time soon.
The speed necessary to double tap to eat the numbers is WAY too fast. In some case no speed is fast enough. Fix this and it would be a great nostalgic game to enjoy with our kids.
The game lets you play 3 levels and then a cartoon video comes on. When the video is over the app crashes and closes. We want a refund.
Like everyone else is saying this app crashes after 3 levels. Total waste of money. There is no way to contact the developer for a refund. TRASH!!!
Paid for the game and we cannot play passed level 3. Pass it and the game turns off. Please fix or refund us.
After beating any modes third level the app crashes. We love this game. So much potential, but this is unacceptable and unplayable.