Customer Reviews

Scooby-Doo: Jinx at the Sphinx

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I purchased this game a couple of weeks ago for my daughter, who is almost five, and she loves playing it. It has different levels of difficulty and she is ecstatic that she has been able to solve the first level mystery so far. She needs a little bit of help with the reading parts, but she loves the matching games and the ones for scoring scooby snacks. She often plays with her Dad and they enjoy trying to solve the mysteries together. The only negative with the game is that the animation is a little jerky; but, at her age, she doesn't seem to mind.

I bought this game for my daughter when she was six years old. She's seven now and still loves it and the other Scooby games! She especially enjoys the carpet matching game and the machine in the pizza place. I had to help her some with the math game at first, but now she is really beginning to understanding fractions!

I got this game for my granddaughter who is almost 4 and a real Scooby Doo freak! She loves it even thought some of it is beyond her understanding. Even at her level she can play with it and be totally entertained for a long time. She loves the graphics and action.

Another outstanding learning software for youngsters ages 5 to 10 that is as much fun to play as it is instructive and skill building, Scooby-Doo Jinx Of The Sphinx takes the player on a trip to Egypt with Scooby and the gang as they visit the pyramids in Giza and find that Velma's Egyptologist Cousin Thelma is missing -- and a mysterious mummy is frightening all the tourists away! Players direct Scooby-Doo and his friends by telling them what to do and with whom to talk. Along the way there will be ghosts, puzzles, and thrilling adventures! Featured are ten different puzzles and mystery solving activities that build critical thinking and research skills. The game can be played independently and offers three levels of difficulty. The mystery changes each time the game is played including new clues, different villains, and alternative outcomes. Scooby-Doo Jinx Of The Sphinx is strongly recommended for both family and classroom learning software collections.

My kids ages 5 and 8 loved this game. It flows just like the cartoon show on TV, as we follow Scooby and the gang as they search for clues to solve the mystery. My kids had it completely solved in an hour or so, then played it a few more times to see the different clues and villains, and now they're done with it--not 24 hours since we brought it home! They want to play the next two Scooby games now. "If it hadn't been for those meddling kids..."

This game is rather easy an does not contain many challenges for my 4-year old. The game was very easy to complete. The game becomes boring rather quickly at times because you had to keep going back and forth from place to place to solve the game. Sometimes you get stuck and am not sure where to go next until you explore some of the places again because the scenes change as the game progresses. The game has excellent graphics and sound but a mediocre story. The game needed more action.

I wouldn't buy this for my kids. Thankfully it was a gift for my 8-year old daughter. She tried to play it on her own at first and couldn't really figure out what to do, I guess she didn't read or listen to the instructions. The instruction file was enormous and complicated to follow for the specified age group. I played it on my own later to see what in fact this was all about. I solved the mystery and actually enjoyed myself, then my daughters(4&8) played it and the mystery was exactly the same for the next 3 times they used it. Maybe I haven't found how to change the level of difficulty, but I felt that everything was too obvious and not really a "mystery". I felt the kids were being humored and this game was really dumbed down. We haven't picked it up again since then, it has been a couple of weeks now. They'd much rather stick to "Clue Finders" and other such programs or the written word than play this game. They may give it another shot soon. Bottom line, this game just doesn't suit our tastes.

As crazy as my children are about Scooby Doo, I expected this game to be exceptional. Although my 7 year old has played it quite a bit [and I probably got my money's worth] he quickly leaves it to go back to other software games like: Train Simulator, Oregon Trail, Lionel's Trans Con, and Mission THINK. The game advances slowly and the graphics are flat like watching the cartoon. Guess I was expecting more educational basis to this software, but find it's really more like watching the show on TV.

This was bought for my 4 yr old. He loved it. He needed some help with simple math, on the fishing boat, and reading some signs. Other wise he is independant with this game. He has all the Scoobydoo CD-ROM games and he plays with them all equally.

You get what you pay for....my kids enjoyed this and played it constantly for 2 weeks. Then they went back to Reader Rabbit which they have enjoyed for months.