Product Description

Scholastic Get Puzzled

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #629 in Toys & Games
• Brand: LeapFrog
• Model: 20380
• Released on: 2007-05-07
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

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.

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. All Leapster games work with all Leapster systems.

Customer Reviews

Fun & Sometimes Frustrating.
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.

A Great Game!
Well designed game. We got it right before X'mas weekend for my 6 year old. She beat it in 2 days(and we had a very quiet 2 days). She was so focused on playing with it!
However, it is definately not challenging enough for 7-8 year old kids.

Great Fun!
We just got this game about a month ago and my 5 year old can hardly put it down! He is only in Pre-K, so some of the math parts are a little over his head, but with the "help" button he can just keep right on zipping thru. And even though he has to get help on some of it, he is still hearing the math problems over and over. So he is learning while he is having a blast!