Choose who you want to continue the chain
For Alicia to answer the child’s word, look at Rally with Alicia. To contribute yourself to a cooperative chain, look at family mode. The syllable-linking rule stays; who supplies the next word and how each person participates changes.
Alicia is in development for Android and has no public download yet. This comparison explains its published family design; it is not a test of an already downloadable app.
Rally: Alicia’s answer counts too
In Rally, the child proposes a word and Alicia continues from it. Her answer becomes the visible word from which the chain proceeds. An adult can support reading without needing to act as an opponent to explain that pattern.
An invented example: the child proposes ca-sa and Alicia answers sa-po. The next proposal would start from po. This illustrates the rule; it does not predict the vocabulary or a particular game response.
This mode may interest you if you want to understand the alternation between a child’s proposal and the character’s continuation. Do not choose it expecting a speed contest: the product has no timers or scores.
Family: the adult has a choice of their own
Family mode offers a cooperative ten-link chain. The child chooses from three illustrated cards with syllables; the adult from six text cards. After a correct adult choice, the child checks the connection.
In the same ca-sa → sa-po example, checking means examining sa → sa. That is not necessarily another turn adding a word. Nor can you require “sapo” if it is absent from the hand offered to that role.
Choose this approach if you want to contribute your own choices and share checking. Its described goal is a chain made by one team, rather than defeating each other.
Three questions before choosing
- Do you want Alicia to continue, or both of you to participate using cards?
- Who chooses now, and who checks afterwards?
- Would you like optional audio, or to follow the visible words?
Audio is optional in the published design. Your way of supporting play promises no educational result and does not replace family judgement. Keep the Spanish examples when explaining in English: translating “casa” and “sapo” breaks their syllable link.
Read the Alicia facts and two-mode presentation. For a closer look at family roles, continue with the guide to the two card hands.