Dip & Dash
Dip & Dash is a free obby game: a run-and-jump obstacle course through 34 worlds, six of them in 3D. Your runner runs on its own, and you jump the gaps, spikes and critters to reach the finish.
In the last 30 days, players opened Dip & Dash about 390 times and played it for about 20 hours in all. These are Peabody's own counts, with no names in them.
Running and jumping (an obby) · numbers and words. Get to the finish flag of a stage, and collect the stars on the way. A gate answered right the first time is a star too.
Numbers and words. For ages 5 and up (rated E). Controls: tap or click. Needs a mouse? No: tap. On a school Chromebook, it runs in Chrome; its 3D runs slower on an older one. No sign-up, no ads and nothing to buy.
To print and go with it: a Dip & Dash score sheet.
Tap the screen, click, or press Space, W or the up arrow to jump, and jump again in the air for a double jump. Each stage has stars to grab, flags to pass, critters to jump on (not the spiky ones) and specials floating up high, a few of which are tricks. Each flag gives five chances, and the fifth fall sends the runner back one flag. A speed slider sets the game to slow, medium or fast.
Now and then the runner stops at a gate and a banner asks a question. The child taps the bubble with the right answer, or presses 1, 2 or 3, and the gate opens. A right answer first time is a star. A miss costs no chances: the banner shows the answer, and the child tries again. Numbers practices counting, making ten, adding, taking away, times tables and dividing. Reading practices first sounds, rhymes, phonics, sight words, spelling and word meanings. Mix asks both. The questions fit the child's grade, and in Just play the gates open by themselves.
The stages get harder as they go, not just faster. They run through mushrooms, a reef, a volcano, a spooky manor, a farm, caves, a jungle, a circus, a city and a dragon's castle, and later through places like Topsy-Turvy Land, where portals turn the view around. The six 3D stages start with Pet Paradise, where the course bends on diagonals. The last stage, Thunder Peak, has zaplings, little storm clouds that can only be jumped on while they're calm, and a boss at the summit: Grumble the Storm Cloud, who has the Cup.
If your child likes obby and parkour games on other platforms, this is the same idea, made for younger players. It plays in the browser with no download, no sign-up and no ads. The stages cleared and the stars on each are kept in this browser. Signed-in brothers and sisters can race each other on a stage.
What is an obby game?
An obby is an obstacle course game: you run and jump past gaps, spikes and moving blocks to reach the finish. Dip & Dash is a free one with 34 stages.
Does Dip & Dash practice math or reading?
Yes, in Numbers, Reading and Mix. The runner stops at gates where the child picks the right answer from three, at their own grade. In Just play there are no questions.
Does a wrong answer send my child back?
No. A wrong answer shows the right one and the child tries again, with no chances lost. Only falls use up the five chances at each flag.
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For grown-ups: On the menu: Mix, Numbers, Reading or 🎮 Just play. Just play asks no questions at all.
Also try: Wake the Dragon, Kraken Falls Waterpark, Pet Hatch.
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Tap the screen, or press Space, W or the up arrow, to jump.