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Not for Mac Users

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 20 / 21
Date: November 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Although this product lists for Mac users, don't bother. It is not compatible with System 10 and jagged and pops and unexepectedly quits with System 9. A disappointment because I think our children could have benefited from this. Designers need to update as the technology progresses.

Logical Journey of the Zoombinis

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: October 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is very interesting and very fun. We started using this program in C.L.A.S.S. I like designing the Zoombinis and playing the games along the route. I especially like the pizza one where you have to make a pizza that the trees like. It is a very fun way to learn deductive logic. It is also fun where you have to decide which rocks accept each Zoombini. I also like the one where the Zoombinis have to be matched in pairs according to eyes, nose, hair, and shoes. I highly reccomend this program for it's educational purposes and for it's fun purposes.

Windows XP will support Zoombinis games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: December 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Windows XP users do not despair. All you have to do is run the Microsoft Compatibility Wizard and Zoombinis will function properly on a Windows XP system.

Recommended Ages

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: November 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

While the maker suggests this game is more appropriate for older children, my five-year-old daughter and her six-year-old friend enjoy it a great deal.

Love, love, love this game...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: August 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was introduced to this game while helping out in an elementary school computer class (yeah, I'm technically a grown-up). It's an engaging way to teach logic skills, and the puzzles are a lot of fun. I agree that there are a LOT of Zoombinis to save (the purpose of the game)and that once you've mastered the higher levels it's a bit tedious to keep playing the harder versions of the puzzles, especially if there are any you don't like to begin with.

On the other hand, this game is wonderful for a variety of age groups (some of the younger kids may need some help figuring out the logic behind the puzzles), for different ethnicities (the Zoombinis are blue), and genders (most of the characters are somewhat ambiguous on gender, and the Zoombinis are all equal). I've seen it played solo, and in groups, with equally enjoyable results. And there are a number of resources available for educators, parents, etc. to help your kids make meaning from the games they are playing.

All in all, this is a must for any elementary/middle school computer educator, and a highly recommended for parents who want their kids to use computers as a tool as well as a toy.

Builds skill and character

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: March 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Aside from teaching logic to children of all ages, this game also teaches self-confidence and self-esteem. Upon successfully completing a puzzle one hears "Well done, oh wise and trusty guide,"--or words of the like. These magnificent puzzles build skill and character without pressure of any kind. Mistakes are just an opportunity to learn better next time.

Each puzzle completed well brings praise and the reward of continuing on the logical journey. But in the instances one loses a few Zoombinis along the road, there is no cause for alarm. "Don't worry, you'll meet the Zoombinis again later," the narrator tells players.

The challenges are great for children of all ages and even for adults. I could think of much worse games with which to play of an afternoon with my kids. Even the characters and sound effects on this game are pleasant. This game is a welcome relief from mass-market time wasters. It's fun and education packed together.

--Alyssa A. Lappen

These really helped me with my disability.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have a brain illness and often I can't concentrate or remember things. It isn't demintia or Alzheimers, but sometimes it is frustrating to be an adult who simply can't follow through with my thoughts.

I used both of this games to kind of kick-start some of my cognitive processes.

They helped -- at least enough to tell you that I enjoyed them and was addicted to them. And I write this review two years later!

Still Coming Back...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm a 15-year old who rediscovered Zoombinis after it was left on the shelf for about six years. I'm in a math/science magnet and at least half my friends played this game when they were kids. I'm having the time of my life not only playing the game, which is still hard enough to challenge me at this age, but I'm also trying to duplicate it in my own spare time--figuring out how to generate and manipulate the puzzles in my own version of the program. The logical thinking is present and wonderful--many people don't see where the algebraic thinking is coming from (Mirror Machine, of course, where various transformations are used to make the Zoombinis appear alike), or where the graph theory is present (Stone Rise demands that the Zoombinis be connected by similar attributes), or coordinate systems (Mudball Wall and Hotel Dimensia, of course), but clearly, it is present and it is very, very, effective.

A review of the Logical Journey of the Zoobins - 4th grader

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: November 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Logical Journey of the Zoobinis is a wonderful game! I would recomend it to anyone who struggles with grids or other forms of logic in the slightest or to anyone who is a logic lover. You will meet pizza trolls,cliffs alleigic to noses,fleebs,a squirrel that runs a hotel,and the logic wiz you or that speical child in life truly is.You will enjoy this five-star game as soon as you play it.
Yours truly,
a wordy fouth grader

logic made fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: July 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this after looking endlessly for a decent computer game that would require my children to think while they played. I am so pleased with this program. I can't say enough about the growing logic skills that my five and three year old are developing from playing this game. They call this a "thinking game." As other reviewers indicated this is a grow-with-me program. This is a keeper for our boys.

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