LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Get Puzzled

by LeapFrog

Product Features

• Put your brain to the test as you work through multiple mind-bending puzzles!
• Check your list and find each word hidden in a grid of letters.
• Construct a building as high as the sky using your math skills.
• Help the critter cross the river by correctly assembling the pieces of the bridge.
• Teaches logic and reasoning, language skills and problem-solving skills.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NRVFTA
• Item model number: 20380
• Manufacturer recommended age: 5 - 8 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,096 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

How much puzzle power do you have? Find out by solving hundreds of puzzles that challenge your thinking skills. Guide spaceships, build bridges, create monsters and more while playing six challenging puzzles that help develop logic and reasoning language and problem-solving skills! Leapster2 players can connect online for extra activities and rewards. And with the LeapFrog® Learning Path, parents can see what their child is learning. Appropriate for ages 4 years to 8 years. Works only with Leapster and Leapster2 learning game systems.

Product Description

How much puzzle power do you have? Find out by solving hundreds of puzzles that challenge your thinking skills. Guide spaceships, build bridges, create monsters and more while playing six challenging puzzles that help develop logic and reasoning language and problem-solving skills! Leapster2 players can connect online for extra activities and rewards. And parents can connect online to the LeapFrog Learning Path to see what their child is learning.

Teaches:
-Logic and reasoning skills
-Language skills
-Problem-solving skills

Customer Reviews

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72 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun & Sometimes Frustrating., November 9, 2007

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T. Hough (Carlisle, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Get Puzzled (Toy)

This game is not as educational as many of the other Leapster games that incorporate math and spelling, however both my 5-year-old and 3-year-old really enjoy playing it.

It has a heavy emphasis on memory skills--it will show you a picture of a monster, then scramble the monster traits (eyes, legs, arms, etc.) and then the child needs to reassemble the monster. The frustrating problem with this game, however, is that it will line up items across the bottom of the Leapster screen and you are then to use the stylus to "point and drag" the monster traits. For some reason, on both of my children's Leapster handhelds, it is very difficult to actually "pick-up" the monster part. It's almost as if they software makers put the pieces too low on the screen and they're in a "dead" area. Initially I thought my son's handheld was going bad--his is 1 1/2 years older than my daughter's. However, the game does that very same thing on my daughter's newer handheld. Anyway, I very often have to help them on this particular game, and I have to really angle the stylus (to where it is just about lying flat on the screen) before I can "pick-up" the piece (sometimes I can't even get it, and we have to close out the game). Anyway, this can make the game (and there are actually 2 games on this cartridge that have the same problem) very frustrating.

On a positive note, there is another game on the cartridge where the child has to use logic to build a bridge for the little creatures to cross, and this is easy to use with the stylus and can be quite challenging and entertaining for the children.

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun, but not necessarily educational for the indicated age group, August 28, 2010

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Musicfan "rl" (Belmont, CA) - See all my reviews

= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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I got the game for my 6-yr old for her Leapster 2. I had a hard time with the ratings, because I would rate it differently for a 6-yr old than a 4-yr old. My 3-star rating primarily reflects my assessment of the educational value of the game for a 6-yr old. Regarding its ability to engage the kids, I would give the game 5 stars. My daughter loves the game -- mostly for the game/fun aspect of it.

I do not think this game provides a significant learning opportunity for a 6-yr old. I have now watched her play 3 of the games closely. Here is my assessment:

- WordBird: Here the objective is to find the words in a 6x5 array of letters. The words are spelled out for Level 1 & 2, and depicted with a picture in Level 3. The game would have been a great way to learn the letters, since the alphabet is a finite set. If the kid knows the letters, there is only a small set of words -- about 50 -- that she can learn to spell from this game. Very good for 4-yr olds when they are learning the letters. Not of any significant educational value to a 6-yr old. It could have been a lot more educational for a 6-yr old if the game had built in an extensive dictionary so that the words are different every time they play the game.

- Cosmic crossing: It does force kids to think ahead about how they would get from point A to point B. But many of the layouts are far too simple to challenge a 6-yr old. After the first run through the games, she knows exactly what she needs to do for the courses. Without randomizing the layout, this game is a simple repetition just for fun.

- Critter river: Same comment as Cosmic crossing. Once she has built the patterns, it is just a repetition every time.

I would recommend this game for 4-6 yr olds, keeping in mind that for a 6-yr old it is 90% fun and 10% educational. From an educational perspective, my guess is that it would have been appropriate when my daughter was 4-5. The age rating of 5-8 on the title is definitely far too generous. Recommended for younger kids.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great teaching tool--needs a bit more variety in problems, January 16, 2008

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P. Stewart - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This is by far the favorite of the four leapster games my boys received for Christmas--the others being Dora's pinata party (it came with the leapster and I can't really get them to play it simply because it's "Dora"), I Spy (the games just don't keep their interest for some reason, though I think it's a pretty good cartridge), and kindergarten (far too easy for my kindergartener and really even for my four-year-old.) Anyway, they've loved this one and have played every game repeatedly. My 6 year-old maxed it out and earned all of his "puzzle power" stars in about a week, but he decided to start again. I like the different difficulty levels available and the fact that the problems on each level become progressively harder. I do wish, though, that the games weren't the same each time you played the same one at the same level. Even though you have to complete 15-20 problems to finish a level, once kids have done that two or three times with the same 15-20 problems, the challenge is lost.
As a former math teacher, though I do like this cartridge, especially the "sky-high" where they have to practice addition by putting together beams to make pillars of matching sizes.
The monster game is also great in teaching memory, and the about face for logic.
And, my boys' favorite is the "cosmic crossing" game where they have to get the rocket home to earth, jumping from asteroid to asteroid, riding commits, and sliding through worm holes.