Crunchy LabCrunchy Lab
Cut it, crack it, press it, pop it
Crunchy Lab is a quiet lab bench for small hands. The child takes a block of soap, ice, wafer, sand or jelly from a jar, picks a toy tool and cuts, hammers, presses, stamps and pokes it, and every piece that comes off really comes off. There is no timer and nothing can go wrong.
Version 1.0 · 1.7 MB · Android 8.0+
- Plays offline
- No ads
- No purchases
- No account
- No permissions
- 20 languages
About the game
The game opens on a shelf of twelve jars. Each jar holds one material: pink soap, ice, a bubble sheet, a wafer, mint sand, chips, honeycomb, purple rock candy, a puffed bar with sprinkles, red jelly, orange play dough and yellow foam. A tap on a jar puts a square block of that material on the bench, with a tray of six tools below it.
What makes the game interesting is that the cut is real. The knife follows the finger and the block separates exactly along that line. Hard materials tip over, fall and shatter into shards. Soft ones slide apart and stay on the bench, so sand and dough keep the shape that was cut into them. Each material has its own sounds, and the scraping sound gets louder and higher as the finger moves faster.
A glow meter at the top fills with every action. When it is full the batch is finished: stars and coins are counted, and the first time on each material an egg hatches into that material's little creature, which moves into the album.
What is inside
One block, one finger, no rules
The child picks a tool from the tray and uses it on the block. A cut with the knife splits the block along the drawn line. Two taps with the mallet crack the ice into jagged pieces that drop off the bench. When the block is used up, a new one slides in, and the green plus button brings a fresh block at any time.
Quick actions one after another build a combo, shown as x2, x3 and so on next to the meter, and fill it faster. Slow play fills it too. There is no clock and no way to lose a batch.
Six tools and eight cookie cutters
Each tool does one clear thing, and the same tool behaves differently on hard and soft blocks. From the third block of a session a layer block can appear, made of two or three materials stacked in bands, so one cut passes through, say, soap and then sand.
- Knife: a freehand cut that follows the finger
- Wire cutter: a straight cut across the whole block, aimed first and then released
- Mallet: dents soft blocks and breaks hard ones after one to three hits
- Press: squashes foam, jelly and dough, and crushes wafer, chips and ice
- Cookie cutter: stamps out a star, heart, flower, moon, paw, fish, dino or bear
- Pin: pokes holes and pops the bubbles of the bubble sheet one by one
Twelve jars on the lab shelf
Four jars are open from the first minute: soap, ice, the bubble sheet and the wafer. The other eight open as the child collects stars, at 6, 12, 18, 25, 32, 40, 50 and 60 stars. A locked jar shows the number of stars it needs, so a child who cannot read still sees how far away it is.
The shelf is also the hub of the game. The three round buttons at the bottom open the daily gift, the mini games and the shop.
A creature for every material
Every material has its own creature. It hatches from an egg the first time the glow meter is filled on that material. The album shows all twelve places from the start, as dark silhouettes, and each one is replaced by the creature once it is found. A tap on a found creature shows it large and plays the crunch of its material.
The second tab of the album holds photos. The camera button in the lab saves a picture of the bench as it looks at that moment. The album keeps the twelve newest photos, and a photo can be deleted with two taps on the bin.
Four mini games and a sound mixer
The mini games reuse the lab tools for one small task each. None of them can be failed.
- Shape Orders: a pale outline shows on a block of sand, dough or jelly; the child picks the matching cookie cutter and stamps it out. 24 orders in a row
- Equal Slices: dotted lines mark where to cut a soap block into equal parts with the wire cutter, five rounds per game
- Pop Rush: a sheet of 88 bubbles to pop with a finger; a bubble with a gold star pops its neighbours too. Three sheets per game
- Smash Tower: a tower of ice or rock candy cubes to break with the mallet, and the shards collect in a jar. Three towers per game
- Crunch mixer: choose two of ten materials and tap the disc to hear both crunches together
Colours, toppings and benches
Soap, sand, dough and foam can be recoloured with eight tints: pink, mint, sky and lemon are free, lilac, coral, teal and rainbow cost 80 coins each. The gem button switches the tray to eight toppings that the child stamps onto the pieces: a pink gem, a blue gem, a gold star, a flower, a pearl, a heart, sprinkles and a leaf.
The shop also sells three more bench surfaces for 150, 300 and 500 coins. Coins come only from playing and from the daily gift. Nothing in the game is bought with real money.
How to play
- Tap the green Play button, then tap a jar on the shelf.
- Pick a tool from the tray at the bottom.
- Drag, tap or hold on the block to cut, hit, press, stamp or poke it.
- Keep going until the glow meter at the top is full.
- Watch the egg hatch, then choose Again, the shelf or the album.
- Use the stars to open new jars and the coins for tints and benches.
- Try the mini games from the game pad button on the shelf.
Screenshots
Full specification
| Materials (12) | Soap, Ice, Bubble sheet, Wafer, Sand, Chips, Honeycomb, Rock candy, Puffed bar, Jelly, Play dough, Foam |
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| Hard materials (pieces fall and shatter) | Soap, Ice, Wafer, Chips, Honeycomb, Rock candy, Puffed bar |
| Soft materials (pieces stay on the bench) | Bubble sheet, Sand, Jelly, Play dough, Foam |
| Open from the start | Soap, Ice, Bubble sheet, Wafer |
| Stars needed for the others | Sand 6, Chips 12, Honeycomb 18, Rock candy 25, Puffed bar 32, Jelly 40, Play dough 50, Foam 60 |
| Mallet hits to break | Wafer, Chips, Puffed bar: 1. Ice, Honeycomb: 2. Soap, Rock candy: 3. Sand and Jelly crumble or splat after 2. Bubble sheet, Play dough and Foam only dent |
| Layer blocks (10 recipes) | Soap + Sand; Ice + Foam; Jelly + Wafer; Play dough + Honeycomb; Sand + Jelly + Soap; Wafer + Foam + Wafer; Rock candy + Play dough; Ice + Soap + Sand; Puffed bar + Jelly; Chips + Foam + Honeycomb. They appear from the third block of a session, only from materials already unlocked |
| Tools (6) | Knife, Wire cutter, Mallet, Press, Cookie cutter, Pin |
|---|---|
| Cookie cutter shapes (8) | Star, Heart, Flower, Moon, Paw, Fish, Dino, Bear |
| Lab buttons | New block, Tint (on soap, sand, dough and foam), Toppings, Photo, Calm mode, Music, Sound, Back |
| Creatures (12, one per material) | Soapy (soap), Frosty (ice), Poppy (bubble sheet), Crispy (wafer), Sandy (sand), Chippy (chips), Honey (honeycomb), Crystal (rock candy), Puffy (puffed bar), Jelly (jelly), Doughy (play dough), Spongy (foam) |
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| How one is found | Fill the glow meter on its material for the first time; an egg appears and hatches |
| In the album | Silhouette until found. The game shows the creatures as pictures, without written names |
| Glow meter | Fills with every cut, hit, press, stamp, poke and topping. Actions less than 1.2 seconds apart build a combo of up to x9 that fills it faster. No timer, no fail state |
|---|---|
| Stars per batch | 1 star for a full meter, +1 for using three or more different tools, +1 for a combo of x6 or more. 3 stars at most |
| Coins per batch | 5 + 3 per star + up to 15 for the combo; +20 when the creature of that material is already in the album |
| Starting coins | 40 |
| What stars do | Open the jars on the shelf |
| What coins do | Buy tints and benches |
| Shape Orders | 24 orders: each of the 8 shapes once on sand, once on play dough, once on jelly. 4 coins per order, 1 star after every sixth order. The right cutter wiggles as a hint |
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| Equal Slices | Soap block, wire cutter, 5 rounds with dotted guide lines: 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 equal parts. 3 coins for every cut on the line. 1 to 3 stars at the end |
| Pop Rush | Bubble sheet of 8 x 11 = 88 bubbles, 3 sheets. Gold-star bubbles pop the bubbles around them. 3 stars at the end, 1 coin per 8 bubbles |
| Smash Tower | 3 towers, ice and rock candy in turn, broken with the mallet into a jar. 3 stars at the end, 10 coins plus 1 per 6 shards in the jar |
| Crunch mixer | Two rows of 10 materials (all except play dough and foam). Tap the disc to hear the two chosen crunches together. No score |
| Tints (8) | Pink, Mint, Sky, Lemon: free. Lilac, Coral, Teal, Rainbow: 80 coins each. Used on soap, sand, play dough and foam |
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| Benches (4) | The first is free, the others cost 150, 300 and 500 coins |
| Toppings (8) | Pink gem, Blue gem, Gold star, Flower, Pearl, Heart, Sprinkles, Leaf. All free, up to 30 on one piece |
| Purchases with real money | None |
| Cycle | 7 days, one gift per calendar day |
|---|---|
| Gifts in order | 20 coins, 3 stars, 40 coins, one paid tint (50 coins if all are owned), 60 coins, a bench to use for one day, 120 coins |
| Friends tab | The 12 creatures |
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| Photos tab | Up to 12 pictures of the bench, newest first; the oldest is replaced. Delete with two taps on the bin |
| Where photos go | They stay inside the game on the device. They are drawings of the bench, the camera of the phone is not used |
| Sound | All synthesised by the game, no recordings: a crunch family per material, scraping that follows finger speed, pops, music |
|---|---|
| Buttons on the title screen | Sound, Music, Soft sounds, Language, Album |
| Soft sounds | A gentler, quieter version of all effects |
| Calm mode | The moon button in the lab. The lab cuts the block by itself with the wire while the sound fades out and the screen dims over about four minutes. A tap ends it |
| What is saved | Stars, coins, found creatures, owned tints and benches, the tint chosen for each material, photos, daily gift day, Shape Orders progress, mixer choice, language, sound settings |
|---|---|
| Where | On the device only |
| Reading needed | No. The lab has pictures and numbers only |
| Orientation | Portrait |
| Version | 1.0 |
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| File | CrunchyLab-1.0.apk, 1.7 MB |
| Android package | com.crunchylab.kids |
| Requires | Android 8.0 or newer, phone or tablet, portrait |
| Internet | Not used. The game works fully offline |
| Android permissions | None |
| Ads and purchases | None |
| Accounts and data | No account. Nothing is collected or sent; progress is saved on the device only |
| Interface languages (20) | English, Español, Português, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski, Русский, Українська, Türkçe, Bahasa Indonesia, Tiếng Việt, हिन्दी, বাংলা, العربية, ไทย, 中文, 日本語, 한국어 |
| Price | Free |
For parents
Crunchy Lab is a touch toy more than a game with levels. The child drags a finger across a block and sees and hears it come apart. One batch, from a fresh block to a full glow meter, takes a minute or two, and it ends on a reward screen with three buttons, so there is a natural place to stop. Nothing is timed and nothing is lost by stopping halfway.
No reading is needed. The few words in the game are on the menus, and they appear in one of 20 languages picked from the device language; the globe button on the title screen changes it. Progress is paced by stars: each batch gives one to three, and the last jar needs 60.
For children who are sensitive to noise there is a Soft sounds switch on the title screen, next to separate switches for sound and music. Calm mode, the moon button in the lab, lets the lab cut by itself while the sound fades away, which some families use before bed.
The game works fully offline. It has no ads, no purchases, no account, no chat and no links out, it asks for no Android permissions and it collects nothing. Photos are pictures of the bench stored inside the game; the camera of the phone is never used.
Questions and answers
What age is Crunchy Lab for?
It is made for children of about 3 to 9. A three-year-old can cut and smash with one finger. Older children go for three stars, the combo and the mini games.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. The game has no network code at all and asks for no permissions. It can be played in flight mode.
Are there ads or purchases?
No. Tints and benches are bought with coins that are earned by playing and from the daily gift. Real money is not used anywhere.
Does my child need to read?
No. Tools, jars, moulds and rewards are pictures. A locked jar shows a star and a number.
How long is a session?
One batch takes one to two minutes and ends on a reward screen. A mini game takes about the same. There is no energy system and no waiting.
Is progress saved?
Yes, automatically, on the device. Stars, coins, creatures, tints, benches and photos are kept between sessions. If the game is uninstalled, the progress goes with it.
The sounds are a lot for my child. Can they be reduced?
Yes. The title screen has a Sound switch, a Music switch and a Soft sounds switch that makes every effect gentler and quieter.
Download and install
Open the downloaded file on your Android device. If prompted, allow installation from the browser or file manager, install the game, then switch that permission off again.
The game itself is available in 20 languages and picks yours automatically.
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