STEM
SwarmQuest
A whole-room estimation game on one screen. Everyone looks at a picture for a few seconds, then points to their guess on a number line while the host taps it in. Then the truth and the room's middle guess drop together, and you see how close the crowd got. One room score, no names, nothing typed. For middle-school clubs and classes.
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Meet the cast
A hive of guessers. Every bee has one habit, and every habit changes how close the swarm gets.
Midge
Counts the bees in one small square, then multiplies by how many squares there are
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Pebbleton
Holds up something he already knows, a handful is about fifty, and counts in handfuls
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Bracket
Never gives one number: always between this and that
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Lonehum
Writes her guess down before anyone else speaks, so nobody's number pulls hers
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Copycomb
Copies the loudest bee, so the whole swarm drifts the same way
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Stickle
Hears one number first and stays stuck close to it
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Middling
Lines every guess up from smallest to biggest and picks the one in the middle
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Farbuzz
Guesses wildly high every time, and the middle guess barely moves when he does
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Sharewell
Pours all the guesses together and shares them out evenly
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Fanspread
Looks at how far apart the guesses are, not just where the middle is
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Learning goal
A whole-room estimation game on one screen. Everyone looks at a picture for a few seconds, then points to their guess on a number line while the host taps it in. Then the truth and the room's middle guess drop together, and you see how close the crowd got. One room score, no names, nothing typed. For middle-school clubs and classes.
Mentored by Comb — no data leaves the device.
How SwarmQuest 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