Hungry Number

Hungry Number is a little survival game built on comparing values. You control a blue ball that starts with the number 4, and you move it around the screen looking for food. The rule is simple: you can eat only numbers that are smaller than yours.

The flip side is what keeps it interesting. Bigger numbers are a threat, and they will eat you if you get it wrong. So every number on screen is either a snack or a danger, and you are constantly reading values and adjusting your route to collect the first kind while steering clear of the second.

The description calls it a relaxed game, built around roaming the screen and finding numbers smaller than you. The tags put it next to 2048-style titles and list avoiding as part of the action. At heart it is a gentle exercise in recognising, quickly and repeatedly, which numbers are larger than your own, which makes it a quiet bit of number practice for younger players.

1. Move the blue ball around the screen.
2. Look for numbers smaller than yours.
3. Eat the smaller numbers as you reach them.
4. Keep away from bigger numbers, which can eat you.

Check the value before you approach anything. In a crowded spot, it is safer to circle around than to guess.