Last updated on February 5th, 2026 at 03:10 am
Spark: Puzzles for the Curious – Education Game Review
Spark: Puzzles for the Curious is a Education/Trivia/Puzzle game from Elevate Labs, LLC, first launched in 12th November 2025.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,518+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Spark: Puzzles for the Curious Stand Out
Spark is a daily puzzle app where curiosity comes to play.
Discover fresh themes—from rebellions and rockets to Pokémon and potatoes—through clever puzzles spanning history, pop culture, science, geography, sports, and more.
With new puzzles, free to play every day, Spark turns curiosity into a fun daily habit. No stress, no timers, just the joy of discovery.
Why Spark stands out:
- Surprising daily themes for learning something new, from TikTok to Timbuktu
- Clever games, designed to spark “aha” moments
- Human-crafted puzzles made by people, not algorithms
- Habit-building tools to track your progress and make curiosity stick
From the creators of Elevate and Balance, Spark is part of a collection of mental fitness apps designed to strengthen your mind.
For additional information, please read our Terms of Service (https://themindcompany.com/terms-and-conditions?from=spark) and Privacy Policy (https://themindcompany.com/privacy-policy?from=spark).
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Spark: Puzzles for the Curious is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd February 2026
Recent improvements include:
- Knockout Beta: our newest game is coming soon! We'll be running a limited-time beta test with a small group of players to gather feedback and help us improve.
- This or That: If you move cards around matching a previous guess, you'll now see the same "correct cards" feedback that appears when submitting a guess.
Download & Availability
Spark: Puzzles for the Curious is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Spark: Puzzles for the Curious on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Simple, once-a-day play. Some days harder than others, but thats what we want since Im looking for fun, chill ways to learn.
Truly a great game to play in your free time. Hopefully more game modes come soon because as of right now its quite short to play. The daily themes are nice. You can learn a lot of cool things. Not necessarily useful but neat. The best thing is the for the most part its free. Theres no ads or anything. The only feature locked behind a paywall is the archives to go back and play older themes. Overall great app to spend some free time on.
Spark has quickly become an integral part of our daily routine a few minutes where we can relax and learn things at the same time. Theres always something to make us laugh, gasp, and go looking to learn more. We also adore the HUMAN team of contributors and devs. The app is intuitive, just right amount of challenging, and structured to provide a healthy amount of play per day (though if youre like us, you may end up down a research rabbit hole afterwards). Ive already recommended this to others and will continue to do so. If you like a little learning and a little fun incorporated into your day, definitely download Spark.
The themes are interesting, the wordplay is amusing, and its not always as easy as one may initially think. Just enough uncertainty to make you think and use logical reasoning while also remaining low pressure and enjoyable.
Initially thought the app was cool and did it with our friends on their phone then downloaded it for ourselves and we love it.
We like to challenge ourselves daily to stay sharp. Spark is becoming a star in the line up of keeping our mind always a bit updated, challenged, and having fun.
We feel like we learn something everyday now.
Easy, fun, doesnt take too much time out of the day, and is good to kill time and learn trivia between classes.
Challenging but informative and fun. We learn something new every day.
Love playing this and learning new facts.
We love to learn new stuff and test knowledge we already have. Our family has a group chat specifically dedicated to sending our scores to each other each day.
Good mind exercise and knowledge increasing.
Learn something new every day. So well done! Great for anyone who loves a daily puzzle that tests your knowledge and teaches you about interesting topics.
This game is a 10/10 in our book. Ive learned so many new facts and fun things to share with our friends. Looking forward to the 4th game! Im on day streak #37.
We love games that challenge us. This is so different in its approach- we are learning things every time we play. Its all about knowledge – history, sports, the arts, science, and more. We are addicted.
We love the puzzles and the fact that you learn facts that you may otherwise never have known.
You can race through the puzzles and still pick up some interesting pieces or you can slow down and familiarize yourself with interesting topics that can trigger your curiosity and spark some new ideas.
This once daily game currently has 3 puzzles with another coming soon. All puzzles follow a theme of the day. This first is a true/false game, the second is a historical timeline and the third is a matching type puzzle. The themes range from history to science. It only takes a few minutes per day and you will learn something new.
Spark has bite-sized pieces of information and things that are actually fun to do and you learn stuff.
Part of our morning routine every day.
Quick way to learn something new, correct your understanding of something old, and exercise the mind. Fun sharing results with friends/family.
Our friends and we play this every morning and share our results with each other. Its great to learn something new every day or talk about things we got wrong. Its super simple, free to play, and has different types of puzzles to learn from. We definitely recommend this for some casual learning.
Very fun puzzles with lots to learn.
We are learning new things. Its a fun format. We dont even feel all that bad that Im not that good.
We love this app, its so fun learning all these tidbits of information every day.
Loving this game. We love that it tests your knowledge and then teaches after each section if you want! Love it and highly recommend it.
We love it, we love learning all the new stuff every day.
We look forward to completing these puzzles on the daily and learning along the way. Engaging and challenging.
We love picking up random facts and being quizzed on them! Get it wrong, and get another chance to get it right! This is a great app.
Fun game we learn something new every time we play.
Im learning a lot while playing this game. Its fun too.
We thought Spark would be easy and sometimes it is. But instead of showing off how much we know we can get excited about how much we can learn.
So fun and educational. Very quick to play and keeps us coming back each day.
Learning a little about something new each day makes our brain happy. And the free features are excellent! Three puzzles on a topic each day, and theyve all be fun and interesting.
Reminiscent of NYT games except the themes are more educational! Very fun.
Increasing difficult, but do-able and builds knowledge.
We look forward to doing these lovely, well thought out little puzzles everyday! A much, much better option than just mindlessly scrolling! We love it and we cant wait for them to add more puzzles.
We play every day! Looking forward to new games.
Today we learned about a woman who won gold in the ancient Olympics and inspired other women to do likewise. How had we not known that before? We learned something equally cool yesterday, which is what got our wife playing as well. The games are challenging and engaging. Top marks all around.
We use this everyday and love all the facts 10 out of 10 would recommend.
We enjoy the subjects (some Im familiar with, some not) and find a great opportunity to learn new and review old knowledge.
Enjoying a daily dose of learning with this app.
Less social media had us trying out new wducational apps & this is our new fave.
Love Spark. Play it every day and we definitely learn something new every time. We just wish they would release Hindsight.
This game helps you learn about different topics. You can only play the four games one time a day and there are no adds. Plus no purchases.
Picking up surprising tidbits of knowledge. Downside: some of it smacks of advertising.
The games are simple and straightforward, sure, but new topics every day keep them interesting. Ive been able to learn little tidbits about a bunch of subjects. Not a great study tool but fun and worthwhile.
We love the various challenges and learning. Im glad to see some bug improvements, including the days streak holding firm. Id like the improvement of the button click to move to the next puzzle instead of us having to manually do it. Im looking forward to the fourth puzzle being made available soon. Keep up the good work.
This is mostly fun though the constant feedback prompts are annoying. The real problem is that some of the information is just incorrect.
Our antivirus software continually blocks this app because it notes that its a risky site. So, we cant play this app if we have our VPN or safe browsing on. Makes you wonder why it doesnt work. We also think its ludicrous to pay for the app when one of the features has been coming soon for an extended period. We will not be using this app again until its considered safe to use by our antivirus software.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.12.0
- Size: 100.62 MB
- iOS: 16.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Elevate Labs, LLC
Last updated: 3rd February 2026 | Genre: Education, Trivia | Developer: Elevate Labs, LLC