Zoombinis Logical Journey
- Designed for Windows XP
Product Description
Travel to a remarkable new world and treat your brain to an outlandishly fun and challenging adventure. Diabolical Bloats have seized Zoombini Isle, and it will take a clever mind to help the Zoombinis navigate their way to safety. Standing between you and your destination are twelve perilous puzzles, with four levels of difficulty each. But beware, this is no ordinary challenge. Zoombinis’ captivating gameplay features math without numbers. Solving Zoombinis puzzle… More >>
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I bought this CD for my seven year old son with hopes that it would be a positive addition to his education. I was sadly disappointed to find that it was violent, dark, and depressing. I do not believe that teaching children to be violent and aggressive is in the best interests of anyone. We must learn to share the Earth with all living beings.
Rating: 1 / 5
I couldn’t get this to work on a brand new Dell with XP and mega memory.
Rating: 1 / 5
After reading all of these 5 star reviews, I decided to buy a copy of Zoombinis Logical Journey for my 8 year old boy. Once I successfully installed the game, I left the rest to my son. Two minutes later, he came up to me and said he didn’t know what to do. I went back to the screen and all I saw was a little ship, some mountains and what looked like little comical body parts to build a character. There were absolutely NO instruction on the screen. The makers expected a little 8 year old kid to know that they should hit the pink hidden questionmark in the corner for instructions. Once clicked, it puts confusing instructions (confusing for little kids) using “big” words such as attributes and other words a little kid needs to ask mom define. Once I figured out that you needed to build 16 different Zoombinis, the little characters are taken to another screen where the player needs to put them in a certain order. If the player fails to do this, he/she loses all of the little Zoombinis except for 3 or 4 out of the original 16 that were created. And thats it…the game ends.
When a player does complete the task required, they don’t get a “good job” or “Yay! you did it!” Instead the game exclaims, “And the zoombinis move on.” Absolutely no motivation or reward to congratulate the player on a job well done.
On top of that, there is no “Save Game” button. Lucky for me, my older son knew that one needs to press Ctrl+S to save the game.
The “no numbers required — all logic” motto caught my eye when I was looking for a game to purchase. THERE IS ONLY ONE CHALLENGE – The player needs to put the Zoombinis in a certain order where the an “attribute” of the next Zoombini is the same as a Zoombini previous to it. This idea is followed through the entire game except for a couple of mini games. The only difference between levels is the color or characters that need help in completing a task. For example, the Zoombinis need to cross a river. In order to do this, they have to hop on some turtles’ shells to get the other side. Put the Zoombinis in a specific order (explained before). The next level would be a frog that will only row the boat if the Zoombinis put themselves in a certain order – except this time they need to put themselves in an order in such a manner that they form a rectangle. Very little variation.
Worst game ever created. I HIGHLY recommend that you buy a different game.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this game based mostly on the great reviews here. My dissatisfaction with this software is my own fault for not paying more attention to the description of the game which says the software deals with the “basic fundamentals of mathematical thinking as organizing information, reasoning of evidence, finding and making patterns, and systematic testing of hypotheses.” Look at that description again. No where does anything say this software is about adding, subtracting, multiplying or division problems. Even the title, LOGICAL Journey implies deductive reasoning. So please don’t take my harsh review as being critical of the software itself. It’s a good game for doing what it was designed to do which is to teach logical reasoning and deduction. However, if you are like me and looking for math PROBLEMS like add this number to this other number you won’t find any of that here. Let me say it again in case it isn’t clear yet. I could not find one single arithmetic problem in this whole game.
Rating: 1 / 5
I’v only played this twice at school and I luv it!I keep trying to get every possible chance to play it and now I’ve decided to save my money to buy it myself.Alot of other kids in my class play this and you should too!I highly recomend this game!
Rating: 5 / 5