f you have a child in elementary school, you’re probably familiar with Brain Quest: it is most visible in the children’s book sections of bookstores, in the spot reserved for educational items that aren’t quite books but aren’t quite toys, either. In physical form, Brain Quest is a deck of attached cards. The long, thin cards have questions on the front and answers on the back. There’s no “object” to flipping through the cards and tossing questions to your kids, except to interact and learn and think. You don’t score points. You either get the question right or wrong, and then you move on. Simple, but deceptively fun and addictive. Modality has created iPhone versions of Brain Quest Blast Off games for grades 2 through 7; games in which both you and your child are going to enjoy immensely. Despite the educational virtues of these games—they are about knowledge and problem solving—the object is to score points, beat the clock, and move up levels, these games are highly fun and addictive. It seem that once you start playing this game, there is no stopping in the near future, not until you defeat all the levels of course. Each version of Brain Quest Blast Off includes a variety of subjects: math, language arts, social studies, and science and “grab bag” are included in the Grades 2 and 3 versions. Each also provides a variety of question/answer formats: multiple choice, word scramble, fill-in-the-blanks, and true/false, for example. You must complete each subject in each round before you can progress to the next round, which means that “winning” the game takes a lot of time. The fact that this game is perfect for your kids, no matter how old they are, speaks a lot. And like I already said, it is fun, so it is the best thing you can really offer to someone you love and care about.