ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano

by The Learning Company

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000691KF
• Item model number: 381577
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 4, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,721 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #16 in Video Games > Mac Games > Arcade
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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This add-on CD is now included with all of the current ClueFinders' products. One game for each of the four ClueFinder kids is accessed through the villains' mansion control room. Players earn points as they play the arcade-like games with the seemingly endless goal of escaping. Kids guide the characters through tough mazes and obstacle-filled courses, jump on books containing categories of words (e.g. geography, birds), and play an unusual game of pinball. Goals are unclear and hard to reach. This is more of an afterthought than a well-developed set of games. Also, the opening screen is used as an advertisement for other Learning Company products, a confusing startup for the kids.

Product Description

Plunge into an island adventure with the ClueFinders! When a sudden tsunami shipwrecks the savvy sleuths on an uncharted volcanic island, they need your help to solve a mystery and escape before the volcano blows.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Meaningless Plot and few games, August 29, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano (CD-ROM)

Unlike the other software in the Cluefinders series, The Secret of the Living Volcano does not have an interesting plot.

WARNING: SPOILERS VIEW. The cluefinders are washed ashore on an active volcano. There's no villian with a plan, so the game is less interesting. The ending will surely dissapoint you. There are 4 buttons that the cluefinders press and then, they escape the volcano erupting and Joni loses the Cryptiles and nobody will beleive them. End of story. SPOILERS VIEW ENDS HERE.

Don't get me wrong, there are some good games in here, but there are only... 10. Cluefinders 3rd Grade had 24 games and 4th Grade had 15 games. WHAT IS GOING ON!!! As you go on, 6th Grade and Math will only have 9 games!!! Why is the Learning Company adding lesser, and lesser games!?

Also half the games involve logic in this CDROM. The Fish within the fish and the faces within the face are also not very good. They're confusing and weird.

I don't really recommend this for 4th or 5th graders. Get 3rd Grade for in-depth education. Get 4th Grade for an intresting plot. Get 6th Grade for higher thinking problems. Don't get 5th Grade for confusing games and a meaningless plot.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars awsome!, December 2, 2002

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"duffykat" (New Mexico United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano (CD-ROM)

This game is so cool!
It has tons of fun games, and there are 3 miniture levels,
including spelling, math,fractions, putting together words, geography
and others! I had so much fun playing this!!!
Throughout the whole game, a yellow laptop fallows you and the other cluefinders around. When you click on it, it acsesses many things, like how to change the level of difficulty on a game, and it has info about the fellow clue finders. I love this game, I play everyday!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars permanently stalls halfway through game, July 23, 2006

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capybara (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: Secret of the Living Volcano (CD-ROM)

We had a CD of this game that permently stalled before we were halfway through it. We tried it in both of our CD Rom players to no avail and adjusted every thing we could imagine on our computer that might help. There is NO help form The Learning Company for this product and even the online FAQs for this product are slim and nothing to help. We liked the game enough to buy another one in case it was the CD, to no avail. It permanently stops in the exact same spot in the game. It's worse to enjoy a game only to be stopped in the middle than to have never tried it at all. We are operating an IBM Windows XP machine and set all the settings to what the installation info said is required.