ClueFinders Search & Solve

by The Learning Company

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004U9T2
• Item model number: 379443
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,389 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #79 in Software > Children's Software > Thinking & Problem Solving
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

There's something suspicious in the dark night sky: flashing lights from an old, abandoned amusement park. Thrills, chills, and problem-solving skills await you in this haunted amusement park adventure. Join the ClueFinders as they venture into a haunted carnival on a mystery-solving quest. You'll need all the nerve, wits, and problem-solving smarts you can muster to crack this creepy case.

Keep the learning excitement alive after the computer's turned off with thereal-world adventure kit, included in the program. You can create cool maps to guide your friends on treasure hunts, and use the logbook and calendar to plan activities, keep on schedule, and record your daily thoughts and achievements. You can also create, encode, and print top-secret messages with the encoder/decoder, and make good dollars-and-cents sense with the money tracker. The sound transformer lets you change the sound of your voice, your dog's bark, or any sound you can record. The club kit has everything you need to help you start your own club, host activities, solve mysteries, and dream up new adventures. (Ages 9 and up)

Product Description

Venture into a haunted carnival on a mystery-solving quest. You'll need all the wits and problem-solving smarts you can muster!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool!, September 1, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: ClueFinders Search & Solve (CD-ROM)

This is a really cool game! It raised my math grade to an A!

15 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars interesting, March 5, 2001

By 

Adam Fineberg (Seattle WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ClueFinders Search & Solve (CD-ROM)

I think that this game was very poorly made, but the concept was very innovative, so if you really like this genre of games, then run and order it today! But if you think that graphics and sound effects are an important feature of computer games, then I would not suggest this graphically inferior game. Hope I helped you.

5.0 out of 5 stars A great logic-teaching adventure game, May 30, 2009

A Kid's Review

This review is from: ClueFinders Search & Solve (CD-ROM)

Graphics: 3/5
Storyline: 5/5
Educational Value: 5/5
Fun: 4.5/5
Audio: 3/5
Overall: 5/5

Hi, I'm StoryMaker, and I'm a big fan of educational software. They tend to be very fun and challenge my mind. ClueFinders Search &
Solve Adventures for ages 9-12 is no exception. The main thing it teaches is logic and problem solving. Now, this isn't anything like Pajama
Sam or Putt-Putt. It is more advanced and, in my opinion, more educational - and for older kids, probably more fun. It's full of fun, mind-challenging puzzles. In one of my favorites, you must free up a vending machine robot's circuits by placing shapes in the spaces that are
clogged. Each row has a certain shape and each column a certain color, but you don't know what they are, so with a little luck and lots of
logic, you must determine which shapes to use in a number of tries. In another, try your hand at a paintball game to choose which symbol is
differnet (this actually was one of the more annoying ones). In another, place cars into the robotic car wash in a certain way using hints like
"yellow cars above purple cars" and "all cars with a flag must be beside a car with a horn". Playing these games earns you parts of keys,
which you need to progress in the game. Progressing in the game results in different fun puzzles. There actually aren't THAT many different
kinds of puzzles total, but they're so fun & challenging, it doesn't really matter. The storyline, which is very interesting, is a bit better if you've played other ClueFinders games and know the characters; I reccommend you start with a grade-based ClueFinders game. Overall, a great game to excercize your mind. Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!" P.S. Try other ClueFinders games, and JumpStart games
too.