About ABC Gap

ABC Gap is a gentle, no-ads alphabet game for children aged 4 to 7. The alphabet is shown with one or more letters missing — your child works out which letter belongs in the gap and puts it back to earn a star. It’s all about knowing the alphabet and the order the letters come in.

It grows with them. They start by dragging the missing letter up from a few big keys, with the letters either side of the gap to help. As they get the hang of it the game steps up to a short row with a letter tray, then filling gaps in the whole a–z — and the number of gaps grows from one to two to three. The wrong choices start out looking obviously different and, as your child improves, become the classic mix-ups — b/d, p/q, m/n — so they’re really looking carefully.

How to play

• Look at the alphabet and find the empty box.
• Work out which letter is missing — the letters around it tell you.
• Drag the right letter up from the tray and drop it into the gap.
• Get it right and the gap turns green — you win a star, and the game nudges a little harder. Find it tricky and it eases back.

Use the settings cog to leave it on Auto (it grows with your child) or pin a single level — the big letters, the short row, or the whole alphabet.

Why the alphabet matters

Knowing letters and their order is the bedrock of reading and writing — it’s how children find words in a book, a dictionary or a list, and it underpins the phonics they learn at school. Spotting a missing letter makes them picture the sequence and recognise each letterform. There are no timers, no streaks and no flashing rewards: just the alphabet, a gap and a little star when it clicks.