Pig in a Poke app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Geir Larsen
First release : 15 Mar 2013
App size: 23.16 Mb
Put the pig and the other words into the "pokes". Practice vocabulary, word sorting and classification in a friendly competition with your friends or yourself. There are 35 lists of 20 words, making a total of 700 words to read, sort and remember.
Choose difficulty level by deciding how many "pokes" you sort into, and how many words you want to put into each.
Your score increases with the number of pokes and words and the quicker you sort the words.
A poke is a sack or bag, and the expression "Pig in a poke" refers to a confidence trick originating in the Late Middle Ages, when pig meat was scarce, but cats and dogs were not. You then risked buying a cat or dog in a bag, believing it was a pig, because you did not carefully check what was in the bag.