--- title: "Mesa: Tabletop Games · One iPad flat on the table, children all around it. · Kid Secure Games" description: "Mesa turns one iPad laid flat into a board game for 2 to 4 children sitting around it: every seat is rotated to face its player, every finger belongs to the seat it started in, and thirteen games run on the shared surface. iPad only. Offline, no ads, no account, one unlock." canonical: "https://kidsecuregames.com/mesa" last_updated: "2026-09-19" --- # Mesa: One iPad flat on the table, children all around it. Coming soon to the App Store Two, three or four seats around the edge of one screen, each with its own colour, its own animal and its pad rotated to face the child sitting there. Then everyone plays at once. - iPad only - English and Spanish - Rated 4+ - Works offline App Store: soon The table ## Nobody plays upside down. The iPad lies flat in the middle. Two, three or four children sit around it, each with their own edge of the screen, their own colour and their own animal. Frog's edge ### Every seat faces its child Each seat owns a band along its own edge of the screen, rotated to face the child sitting there. Two seats face each other; four take all four edges. Try it Press and drag on the table. The line keeps the colour of the seat it started in, wherever it goes. On a touch screen, put several fingers down at once. Seats at the table Owl's edge ### Everyone plays at once Four children reaching at the same time is the normal case, not the edge case. Mesa follows many touches together, and a palm resting on the glass is tracked but never counts as a press. Panda's edge ### A finger belongs to its seat A touch is assigned to the seat it started in and keeps that seat for its whole life, so a child reaching across the board is still playing their own game and not stealing someone else's tap. Fox's edge ### The screen stops rotating once you sit The seat layout is anchored to the physical edges of the iPad, so the app locks orientation the moment everyone is ready. Otherwise every seat would suddenly face the wrong child. ## The edge you sit at is the edge you play on. Fox sat down at the bottom, so Fox's answer pads are at the bottom, turned to face Fox. Frog's read upside down to everyone else and the right way up to Frog. - The ring marks the way out of a game: a two second hold, so a stray tap never ends it. - The parent area on the seats screen waits behind the same hold. 13 games ## Thirteen games for two to four. Each game says how many seats it needs. Tug of war, Green light and Memory table are free in full; the other 10 come with the one unlock. - ### Pick a game A game that needs a different number of seats is greyed out. - ### Tug of war Tap fast to pull the rope your way. 2 or 4 seats Free - ### Green light Wait for green, then be first to tap. 2, 3 or 4 seats Free - ### Memory table Turn two cards. Find the pairs. Take turns. 2, 3 or 4 seats Free - ### Crab soccer Slide your paddle. Score in the far goal. 2 or 4 seats Unlock - ### Draw and guess One draws, the others guess. 3 or 4 seats Unlock - ### Colour rush Find the colour and shape the table calls. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock - ### Sum snap Two numbers flip. Tap the answer first. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock - ### Balance Hold your corner. Keep the ball on the plank, together. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock Team game - ### Tower builder Tap to drop each block onto your tower. Line up all eight. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock - ### Echo parade Watch the symbols. Tap your four pads to repeat them in order. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock - ### Treasure code Guess three different symbols. Clues show which are in the right spot. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock - ### Comet curling Slide to aim. Hold to charge, then lift to send your comet to the target. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock - ### Firefly garden Slide your lantern to catch fireflies. Let the moths sleep. Grow a garden together. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock Team game With the unlock ### Fiesta A run of 3, 5 or 7 games. A wheel picks each one, never the game just played, with one spin again per fiesta. - **3** top score - **2** everyone between - **1** lowest score A bad round is never fatal, and the last game counts double. Two bonus stars come at the end, Steady for never being last and Lucky drawn from a hat, then the crown. Parent area ## Gentle mode turns off winning. One switch in the parent area turns every competitive game into its cooperative variant, for tables where losing ends the evening. - **Tug of war** Tap fast to pull the rope your way. Everyone keeps the bucket in the middle, together. - **Green light** Wait for green, then be first to tap. Everyone taps after green, and the table scores. - **Memory table** Turn two cards. Find the pairs. Take turns. All the pairs go to one shared pile. - **Sum snap** Two numbers flip. Tap the answer first. Everyone finds the answer, and the table scores. - **Echo parade** Watch the symbols. Tap your four pads to repeat them in order. Miss a step? Try the pattern again. Your points belong to everyone. - **Treasure code** Guess three different symbols. Clues show which are in the right spot. Solve the same secret on your own pads. Every treasure helps the team. Balance and Firefly garden are team games already. In a fiesta, gentle mode means the whole table collects stars together and nobody wins. Tower builder in gentle mode. Every seat shows the same 26, because every point goes to the whole table. ## iPad only, on purpose. ### Four edges need room for four hands Every seat owns a band along its own edge, and a child has to be able to tap in it without landing in the next one. On a phone, a band is about as deep as one fingertip. An 11-inch iPad and a 6.3-inch iPhone drawn at the same scale, with the same fingertip in every seat. ### Sound and motion instead of a buzz An iPad has no taptic engine, so every place a phone would vibrate, Mesa gives a short soft sound and a small spring instead. A score adds a burst of twelve particles in the seat colour. A wrong answer is two soft notes: there is no buzzer, ever. These are Mesa's five sounds, built in your browser from the app's own recipe and quiet on purpose, since the iPad sits forty centimetres from four pairs of ears. Nothing plays until you press a pad. ## Three games free, for good. Three games are free in full, with unlimited rounds and no timer. The unlock adds the other ten, their content packs and the Fiesta. One payment, once, shared with your family through Family Sharing. What is free and what the unlock adds Feature Free With the unlock Seats, avatars, scores and the parent area Yes Yes Gentle mode Yes Yes Rounds Unlimited Unlimited Games 3 of 13 All 13 Fiesta, a run of 3, 5 or 7 games No Yes Word packs and the harder number tables No Yes ### Free games - Tug of war - Green light - Memory table ### Added by the unlock - Crab soccer - Draw and guess - Colour rush - Sum snap - Balance - Tower builder - Echo parade - Treasure code - Comet curling - Firefly garden Privacy ## Nothing leaves the table. Mesa has no account, no ads, no tracking and no network at all. It never asks for the camera, the microphone or a location. ### Kept on this iPad - Each seat: a colour, an animal, and a name only if a child wants one. - Scores, and how many games were played. A parent can reset them. - Settings: sound level, gentle mode and the Sum snap mode. ### Never kept - Drawings from Draw and guess. They are never saved. - A fiesta. It lives in memory only, so closing the app forgets it. - Anything sent anywhere. There is nowhere for it to go. ## Questions **Does it work on an iPhone?** No, and that is deliberate. Four seats on a phone would be three inches wide each. Mesa is iPad only. **Do we need more than one device?** No. One iPad flat on a table is the whole setup. Nothing connects to anything. **How many fingers can it follow?** Plenty. It tracks many simultaneous touches and keeps each one tied to its own seat, because four children all reaching at once is the normal case, not the edge case. ## Clear a space on the table. Mesa is coming soon to the App Store, for iPad. App Store: soon --- Page: https://kidsecuregames.com/mesa The whole studio for agents: https://kidsecuregames.com/llms.txt