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OddBitsPals
An invent-a-rule toy for ages 3–5: every toy is a little bit broken — a board with a hole, a dice with a blank side — so you and a grown-up make up a rule to fix it, say it out loud, and keep it. Then teach it to a friend who gets it wrong! Calm, no-fail, on-device.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 10 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
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Meet the cast
OddBitsPals's little crew loves what's broken. OddBits knows a broken toy just means you get to make the rule; Scrap and Mop bring the odd bits along, and Nib tries every rule and gets it a bit wrong — so you get to teach it.
OddBits
loves what's broken — a toy that doesn't work is an invitation to invent the rule (constraint-as-invitation)
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Scrap
Brings a broken bit to fix — a board with a hole, a dice with a blank side (the broken constraint)
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Mop
Brings another broken bit — there is always something odd to make a rule for (more constraints to invent around)
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Nib
Tries your invented rule and plays it WRONG, so you get to correct it — teaching the rule is how you know it (protégé loop)
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Learning goal
An invent-a-rule toy for ages 3–5: every toy is a little bit broken — a board with a hole, a dice with a blank side — so you and a grown-up make up a rule to fix it, say it out loud, and keep it. Then teach it to a friend who gets it wrong! Calm, no-fail, on-device.
Mentored by OddBits — no data leaves the device.
How OddBitsPals handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages