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Summary: Parents Cheapsheet for this potential Frustrating game.
Review: It took me an hour to realize that to get past the first suspect and clue, you needed to give the "feather duster" to the old lady. That opens the locked door and makes the most of the other suspects appear. For the other locked door in the town, listen carefully to the Jester's rhyme after you give him the first ball.With these two hints, the game is just like the "Jinx at the Sphinx". Without them, you will want to throttle the programmers. I played the game myself before I let my 5 yr old play. Since I knew the tricks, he enjoyed it completely. Good Luck.
Rating:
Summary: Parents Cheapsheet for this potential Frustrating game.
Review: It took me an hour to realize that to get past the first suspect and clue, you needed to give the "feather duster" to the old lady. That opens the locked door and makes the most of the other suspects appear. For the other locked door in the town, listen carefully to the Jester's rhyme after you give him the first ball. With these two hints, the game is just like the "Jinx at the Sphinx". Without them, you will want to throttle the programmers. I played the game myself before I let my 5 yr old play. Since I knew the tricks, he enjoyed it completely. Good Luck.
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Summary: Great fun & learning
Review: My 5-yr-old LOVES this game! With an age range being 5-10 I thought it'd be too hard for her, but after I showed her how to play, she can solve the mystery with her favorite characters. Yes, it is basically the same mystery over & over, but that's what she likes about it (It's like reading a favorite book again & again). There's alot of logic & sequencing needed & builds memory skills. You have to remember how to get to all the different rooms through many secret passages and find the clues in a certain order. This is loads of fun. We will be getting the rest of these mystery adventures.
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Summary: Fun! My son loves this game.
Review: My five-year old really enjoys this game. I really enjoyed playing it with him the first time. While I find that playing it more than once is dull, my son can play it again and again (by himself!). The game requires that he listen to what is said, remember clues and locations, and to conduct a thorough search. While I wouldn't call this game educational, I still find it to have some positive merits. Additionally, as a gamer myself I think that this is an appropriate adventuring game for a 5-8 year old and builds some of the skills needed for more complex adventuring games. We had no trouble what-so-ever installing the product. We popped in the disk, clicked install, and everything worked great. My five-year old could have installed this!
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Summary: Waste of money
Review: This game was soooo frustrating that I could not even help my daughter with this one. I kept going back to the Help menu, thinking that we've missed something too but it just did not help us at all. My daughter was so disappointed, we had to take the game back. I couldn't figure out a darn thing. My daughter is 5 and she can play most of my computer games with no problem but this one baffled us both. Do yourself a favor and save your money for a Scooby board game or something else -- don't make the same mistake I did!!
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