Zoombinis Logical Journey
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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. Solv... » full 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 puzzles uses the process of mathematical thinking. This process includes organizing information, reasoning with evidence, and testing systematically. Dive into the exciting and wacky world of the Zoombinis and develop information-age logic skills used in writing computer programs, organizing spreadsheet data, and searching for information on computer networks. « short desciption
User Reviews
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Review Date: 2009-11-13
The Zoombinis Logical Journey is great for kids of almost all ages. My five year-old loves to create the different looking Zoombinis. My eleven year-old is being challenged by the higher levels. The levels gradually get harder and change as you get more of the Zoombinis along the journey to Zoombiniville. We still haven't gotten all the Zoombinis to safety, but it's been fun so far.
User: Arizona Reader
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Summary: What a challenge
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-11-12
Your children will learn basic logic skills and they won't even know it. As they play the games, they will learn to recognize increasingly complex patterns, categorize on the basis of various attributes, and even some rudimentary test taking skills, as they have to figure out what attributes the computer game is looking for (this is not the same every time you play). There is more than enough variety to keep the play interesting for a long time.
This does NOT work well on Windows XP, almost no good children's computer games do. We already owned this game and knew it worked and worked well when we upgraded to XP and discovered what a mess it was to try to use it with our kids' games. We finally picked up an old windows 98 at a library sale just for the children's games.
User: DeputyHeadmistress
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Summary: Excellent for teaching beginning logic
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-11-02
It doesn't work!!! I've tried to load the program several times, but when you push start, the screen goes blank. I tried going to the website to look for updates or troubleshooting, but their website is no longer up. My kids were really looking forward to the game, but what a disappointment. I don't know what other recourse I have, but Amazon needs to pull this product.
User: Mad Mom
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Summary: Disappointed Mom
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-10-07
Unable to get this game to run on HP Pavilion a450n with Windows XP O/S. Looks like some folks have been able to work around the problem with Windows XP by using the Program Compatibility Wizard, but I've had no such luck. There is no "fix" available from the vendor, as TLC/Broderbund no longer supports this product (they subbed that out to a company called Sunburst, and they aren't really supporting the product either). BUYER BEWARE - you will likely have trouble getting this game to work if you are running Windows XP (or Vista for that matter).
User: Larry Styes
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Summary: BUYER BEWARE if you are installing on computer w/ Windows XP!
Helpful Votes: 2
Total Votes: 2
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Review Date: 2009-10-03
I can not get the game to install on my computer. When I try, it changes the settings on my display and trys to register, but can not. I tried to look for updates, but the Zoombinis website no longer exists. I am very disappointed in the game, maybe the game is just too old. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated. My kids play it at school and love it, but we can't get this one working.
User: J. Eubanks
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Summary: Doesn't work!!!
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
Editorial Reviews
Go on an epic adventure of math and logic. Embark on a dangerous quest to a new Zoombini homeland and learn critical logic and mathematical thinking skills. Trek across treacherous terrain strewn with perilous mind-bending puzzles. Learn important life skills such as deductive reasoning, pattern recognition, hypothesis testing, and more, while leading the Zoombinis to freedom. This entertaining adventure is a journey into the math of the information age. Develop the cognitive mathematical thinking skills used in writing computer programs, organizing spreadsheet data, and searching for information on computer networks.Product Details
- Designed for Windows XP