🥚mystery egg⏳timer🔢only three left🧑ask a grown-up🫙game jar🌙sleep on it
Ask before you buy.
The big ideaA game can sell things with real money. Decide with a grown-up and a budget.
How it works
An in-app purchase is when you spend real money inside a game. Coins, eggs and outfits can cost real money from a grown-up's card, so a grown-up decides.
A mystery egg is chance: you pay first and find out what is inside later.
A timer, Only three left! and a friend saying hurry up are made to speed you up, and rushing is how people spend more.
Ask three questions: what do I get for the price, will I still want it next week, and could I earn it by playing?
Oskar's month of small buys.Rush, or decide.
Example 1: Juno's golden egg
A banner said: Rare golden egg! Ends in ten minutes! Only three left!
Juno thought: it wants me to rush.
She stopped and asked Dad, who said: thanks for asking first. She slept on it, and the banner vanished.
What Juno did.
Example 2: Oskar's five eggs
Oskar bought five mystery eggs.
Three hatched the same plain dragon and two hatched dragons he already had: 3 + 2 = 5.
None was golden. You pay first and find out later.
Example 3: Oskar's month
Oskar made 5 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 11 small buys in his month.
He bought eggs, coin packs, outfits and a club.
Small buys add up.
Words to know
in-app purchase
Spending real money inside a game.
mystery egg
A loot box: you pay first and find out what is inside.
budget
What a family plans to spend. It can be small, or none.
subscription
Something that charges again and again.
Watch out
The saved card is a grown-up's card. Never tap to pay with it, and never save a card in a game yourself.
Never use a grown-up's password, and never guess one.
A free trial can turn into paying when the week ends, so ask a grown-up to note the end date.
If you tap buy by mistake, tell a grown-up right away. You are never in trouble for telling.
Try it
A mystery egg costs real money. When do you find out what is inside?
A game says: Tap to pay with the saved card. Whose card is it?
What is Dad's third question?
A free trial ends after one week. What may happen?
You tapped buy by mistake. What do you do?
Answers: 1. After you pay · 2. A grown-up's, so ask first · 3. Could I earn it by playing? · 4. It charges every month · 5. Tell a grown-up right away
Try at homeAsk a grown-up to set a game budget with you, and to turn on the setting that asks before any buy.
For grown-upsSet a small game budget with your child and turn on the setting that asks before any buy, so every buy needs your own password.
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