Adventure Workshop 4th-6th Grade (Carmen Sandiego Word Detective, Clue Finders Reading Adventures, Super Solvers Gizms & Gadgets!)

by The Learning Company

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000063LGG
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 28, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,737 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Adventure Workshop now includes three complete CD-ROM titles for the price of just one! That’s hours and hours of exciting game play and education with products and characters parents and kids love!

Includes:

• Carmen Sandiago World Detective
• The ClueFinders Reading Adventures
• SuperSolvers Gizmos and Gadgets

Kids learn:

• Decision making
• Problem solving
• Reading comprehension
• Math
• Vocabulary
• Science

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Complete junk -- doesn't work on windows XP at all, January 28, 2004

By 

Matt (Palo Alto, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adventure Workshop 4th-6th Grade (Carmen Sandiego Word Detective, Clue Finders Reading Adventures, Super Solvers Gizms & Gadgets!) (CD-ROM)

Despite the assurances in the description and packaging that this works with Windows XP,
it emphatically does not.

The science one crashes every 1/2 hour or so.
The Carmen Sandiego one locks up within 5 minuntes every time.
I'm so annoyed I'm not going to even bother installing the last one.

This is complete garbage software. I wonder if they do any QA at all.

Perhaps it works with Windows 95 or something, but it certainly doesnt work with windows XP.

My testing:
I tried it on two completely different windows XP machines: one 3 years old with pentium 2 processor running XP pro, and one 2 months old running latest and greatest pentium 4 and XP home. Neither works. Both show the symptoms described above.

I checked the websites for patches for this software, and none are available.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I wish 0 stars was an option, December 25, 2005

By 

Bill Russell (Sterling, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventure Workshop 4th-6th Grade (Carmen Sandiego Word Detective, Clue Finders Reading Adventures, Super Solvers Gizms & Gadgets!) (CD-ROM)

I'm very frustrated with this software. They claim to work on Windows XP, but it locks every 3 minutes. The online help is useless. I've updated all the drivers and made sure everything is up to date. I may never purchase anything from "The Learning Company" again based on their less than spectacular Q&A. Save yourself the frustration and buy something from a company that cares about its customers.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Adventure Workshop 4th-6th Grade, August 19, 2004

By 

C. Williams - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventure Workshop 4th-6th Grade (Carmen Sandiego Word Detective, Clue Finders Reading Adventures, Super Solvers Gizms & Gadgets!) (CD-ROM)

Installs fine, but doesn't run on Windows 2000. It pops into the program and back out.

There website has no real help, and there is no phone, or email support for the product.

Complete trash, with no support. Very frustrating.