--- title: "Mesa: Games Around One Screen · One iPad flat on the table, kids all around it. · Kid Secure Games" description: "Lay one iPad flat on the table and 2 to 4 kids play around it, each with their own side of the screen turned to face them. Fourteen games, three of them free. iPad only. Works offline, no ads, no account, pay once." canonical: "https://kidsecuregames.com/mesa" last_updated: "2026-10-21" --- # Mesa: One iPad flat on the table, kids all around it. Coming soon to the App Store Two to four kids sit around one iPad lying flat. Each gets an edge of the screen, a colour, an animal and buttons turned to face them. Then everyone plays at once. - iPad only - English and Spanish - Rated 4+ - Works offline App Store: soon The table ## Nobody plays upside down. Lay the iPad flat in the middle of the table. Two, three or four kids sit around it, and each one gets an edge of the screen, a colour and an animal. Frog's edge ### Every seat faces its player Each kid gets a strip along their own edge of the screen, turned to face them. Two kids sit across from each other, and four take all four sides. Try it Press and drag across the table. The line keeps the colour of the seat where it started, wherever it goes. On a touch screen, try several fingers at once. Seats at the table Owl's edge ### Everyone plays at once Four kids reaching in at the same time is just how a table game goes. Mesa follows every finger, and a palm resting on the glass never counts as a tap. Panda's edge ### Reaching across is fine A touch counts for the seat where it started, even if the finger slides across the table. A kid reaching over is still playing their own game and can't steal someone else's tap. Fox's edge ### The screen stops turning once you sit Tap Everyone ready and the screen stays put. Bump the iPad mid game and every seat still faces the same kid. ## 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. - To leave a game, hold the ring in the corner for two seconds, so a stray tap never ends it. A short hold on the button next to it pauses the game and shows how to play. - The parent area on the seats screen needs the same two second hold. 14 games ## Fourteen games for two to four. Each game shows how many kids it takes. Tug of war, Green light and Memory table are free to play as much as you like. The other 11 come with the unlock. - ### Pick a game Games that don't fit the number of kids at the table are 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 crab. Knock the ball into a 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 edge when the ball comes. Keep it on the tray, together. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock Team game - ### Tower builder Tap to drop each block onto your tower. Everyone picks a speed on their own side. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock - ### Echo parade Watch the parade light up, then play it back on your own pads, in order. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock - ### Treasure code Crack the chest. Clues show which symbols are in the right spot. Fewer tries, more points. 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. Fill the garden together. 2, 3 or 4 seats Unlock Team game - ### Who has it? Everyone gets a secret card. One clue for the table. Point at who is holding it. 3 or 4 seats Unlock With the unlock ### Fiesta Play 3, 5 or 7 games in a row. A wheel picks each one and never repeats the last, and you get one spin again per fiesta. - **3** top score - **2** everyone between - **1** lowest score One bad round won't sink anyone, and the last game counts double. At the end come two bonus stars, Steady for never finishing last and Lucky drawn from a hat, and then the crown. Parent area ## Gentle mode turns off winning. One switch in the parent area turns every game into a team game, 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 parade light up, then play it back on your own pads, in order. The parade stays on your pad. Miss one? Just try it again. Points go to everyone. - **Treasure code** Crack the chest. Clues show which symbols are in the right spot. Fewer tries, more points. The same chest on every pad, and every treasure belongs to the whole table. - **Who has it?** Everyone gets a secret card. One clue for the table. Point at who is holding it. No bluffing: the holder helps. Find them together and the table scores. Balance and Firefly garden are always team games. In a fiesta, gentle mode means everyone collects stars together and nobody wins. Tower builder in gentle mode. Every seat shows 29, because all the points are shared. ## Why it's iPad only. ### Four edges need room for four hands Each kid's strip of screen has to be big enough to tap without hitting the next kid's. On a phone, a strip 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. ### A soft sound for every tap An iPad can't vibrate like a phone, so Mesa answers every tap with a short, soft sound and a little bounce. A point sends up a little burst of sparks in the seat's colour. A wrong answer gets two soft notes. There's no buzzer, ever. These are Mesa's five sounds, made right here in your browser the same way the app makes them. They're quiet, since the iPad sits about forty centimetres from four pairs of ears. Nothing plays until you press a pad. ## Three games free, for good. The three free games have unlimited rounds and no time limit. The unlock adds the other eleven games, the Fiesta, the word packs for Draw and guess and twenty more animals. You pay once, and Family Sharing covers everyone in the family. What's free and what the unlock adds Feature Free With the unlock Seats, 8 animals, scores and the parent area Yes Yes Gentle mode Yes Yes Rounds Unlimited Unlimited Games 3 of 14 All 14 Fiesta, a run of 3, 5 or 7 games No Yes Word packs and 20 more animals 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 - Who has it? Privacy ## Nothing leaves the table. Mesa never goes online, and there's no account to make. It never asks for the camera, the microphone or your location. ### Kept on this iPad - Each seat: a colour, an animal, and a name if your kid wants one. - Scores and how many games you've played. You can reset them in the parent area. - Settings: sound level, gentle mode and the Sum snap mode. ### Never kept - Drawings from Draw and guess. They're never saved. - A fiesta in progress. Close the app and it's gone. - Anything sent anywhere. The app has nowhere to send it. ## Questions **Does it work on an iPhone?** No. On a phone, four seats would be about three inches wide each, which is too tight for four sets of hands. Mesa is iPad only. **Do we need more than one device?** No. One iPad lying flat on the table is all you need. It doesn't connect to anything. **How many fingers can it follow?** Plenty. Four kids can all have their hands on the glass at once, and every touch still counts for the seat where it started. ## 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