Zoombinis Mountain Rescue @ richardeward.com

Zoombinis Mountain Rescue
from The Learning Company

Features:

• Solve 9 perplexing puzzles, such as binary addition dilemmas when playing Boolie pinball
• Develop skills in algebraic thinking, data analysis, logical reasoning, graphing and mapping, pattern finding, problem solving, statistical thinking, and more
• Learn advanced concepts like binary numbers, binary computing, networks, and permutations
• Puzzle reformulation gives you a new game each adventure

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Great game for the kids
  The kids picked it up in no time (ages 9 & 6.) Me, I couldn't figure it out but at least they enjoyed it. However they beat it in one day.

• Disappointed--doesn't work well with my computer OS
  My fault. I should not have purchased software produced in 2001 for a computer system built in 2007. Too many incompatibility issues. I will give this to someone who has a more compatible system than mine.

• Too much of a hassle to use
  The game itself is great, however, at least on my pc (Windows XP with service pack 2, with an intel motherboard and intel on board video) Each time we want to use the game we have to go to start, run, type in dxdiag, go to the display tab and turn off direct draw. Then we can launch and play the game. That's a bit too much of a pain to use. It says it works on XP, but every machine I know of uses direct draw, so this is really more engineered for older versions of windows I think. This game should be... more info

• Great Fun For Your Kids
  We Got this from a friend, it came highly rated, and it didn't disappoint. My 6-yr-old son loves this. It took him a little while to figure out some of the puzzles - it took ME a little while to figure out some of the puzzles - but is very playable and enjoyable. One caveat is there is a middle part of the game where you will play the same puzzles over and over and over again. If your child is easily bored - beware. However, my son doesn't seem to mind this - he just tries to get better and better at each... more info

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