ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures - Puzzle of the Pyramid
More game play than you bargained for. Even if you can breeze thought the puzzles – it
takes about – lemme me see – I have to do the math. 120 puzzles in Cairo, 120 in The
Nile kingdom, don't bother to count the ones in the temple – equals about 240 puzzles, -
figure a half an hour to do ten = 12 hours. Not counting for thinking time, it takes that
much time for this fast dude to do it so relax don't expect to do it in a weekend.
Otherwise there is a pretty good variety in the games. Good balance of puzzles between
language math, logic science, geography, history.
I like the setting in this one best – Egypt, mummies and an evil archaeologist bent on
unleashing an ancient evil force upon the world. Will he? Well, you just have to do all
and I mean all of the puzzles to find out. If you think you already know what will happen,
or get tired of doing the puzzles over and over you can just go to the practice section and
play them as long as you want. (and you can send me e-mail and I'll tell you how the
story turns out).
Oh, and about the skills you will exercise – word bridges for spelling, spatial problems
using angles and mass (easy peasy) sentence construction, reading, using maps and
graphs and building columns using fractions.. My only complaint is that once you have
solved the problem – are you finished. Noooo! You have to do it over – at least four to
five times. Even the ClueFinders get exasperated. This game comes with an extra disk of
games that leads out with, "Twice the Adventure". You've been warned!!
Editor Review 6/02
Ages 8-10+