This study explores young children's digital game play outside of the home as a means of surviving and thriving in modern spaces that limit young children's participation by looking at four digital game-playing three-year-old children. In this ethnographic study, critical theory is used to examine how modern public spaces (e.g., a grocery market, a beauty salon, a kid's club in a gym) function to control young children's participation. This study sheds light on the way we view young children's digital game-playing spaces and argues that young children's digital game play in public spaces serves as a useful tactic for them to negotiate with public regulations, constraints, and their daily schedules.