Zoombinis Mountain Rescue

Zoombinis Mountain Rescue
by The Learning Company

Zoombinis Mountain Rescue
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Product Summary

Brand: The Learning Company
Format: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2001-10-25
Platform: Macintosh, Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP
Model: 380860
Publisher: The Learning Company
Product features:
  • Solve 9 perplexing puzzles, such as binary addition dilemmas when playing Boolie pinball
  • Develop skills in algebraic thinking, data analysis, logical reasoning, graphing and mapping, pattern finding, problem solving, statistical thinking, and more
  • Learn advanced concepts like binary numbers, binary computing, networks, and permutations
  • Puzzle reformulation gives you a new game each adventure
  • 3 levels of difficulty
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Video Game Reviews of Zoombinis Mountain Rescue

Customer Review: Great game for the kids
Summary: 5 Stars

The kids picked it up in no time (ages 9 & 6.) Me, I couldn't figure it out but at least they enjoyed it. However they beat it in one day.

Description of Zoombinis Mountain Rescue

Serenity is shattered when a band of Zoombinis disappears inside a mysterious mountain. In this adventure, you'll get to develop foundational and advanced math skills while exploring menacing puzzles!
Zoombinis are little blue guys and gals that inhabit a kingdom reminiscent of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth, and ingeniously teach math principles using puzzles instead of numbers. In Zoombinis Mountain Rescue a group of Zoombinis gets trapped in a cave, and it's up to players to organize a search party that can withstand the logical travails of a journey through this perilous and quirky terrain. There are nine "obstacles" along the rescue route. Players cross a bridge of turtles by sorting Zoombini search party members by nose color, hairstyle, or other characteristics. Deducing (again, based on features) which Zoombini can snowboard down what path furthers the mission, as well. The search party is held up briefly in a cafeteria where it must use logic to wait on Norfs who drop oblique hints about what they want, or don't want, to order. Each game will stretch your child's ability to use forethought and analysis to assess a situation. Even the easiest of the three levels is designed to be challenging, so be prepared to help out along this creative and strenuous path.

The genius of this Windows-only program is that it turns sophisticated mathematical concepts into engrossing activities. We played a game called Boolie Boggle endlessly. Boolies either smile or frown, and in this game, the object is to change frowns into smiles by bumping Boolies with pinballs. Pretty easy until you start getting chains of Boolies and chains of pinballs. Soon your mind is throbbing as you try to figure out what a sequence of three pinballs will do to two frowning Boolies. "Binary addition" sounds pretty intimidating, but that's exactly what Boolie Boggle is teaching. "Algebraic thinking" and "information-age math" are among the other things this program teaches--mercifully, it manages it with little creatures and 3-D mazes instead of formulas and numbers.

As this journey unfolds, members of the search party drop off due to mismatched noses, wrong path choices, and other errors. Fortunately, there is a practice mode where kids can play the games without sacrificing their Zoombini friends. Puzzles change elements, so there's no way to "learn" a level then repeat it by rote. There is also a very thorough parent's guide, which is helpful for parents who have, er, forgotten about binary numbers. Zoombinis Mountain Rescue is a gentle, yet challenging, program that will probably even work its subtle magic on math-phobes. (Ages 8 and older) --Anne Erickson


The math and logic odyssey continues. Scale the heights in a cliffhanging alpine adventure and expand critical logic and mathematical thinking skills in Zoombinis Mountain Rescue. Join a daring rescue party as it searches for Zoombinis inside a mysterious, menacing mountain. Build important foundational reasoning skills and journey into advanced concepts like binary computing and networks--all during a bold mission that has kids searching perilous, puzzle-packed passages. This second adventure in the Zoombinis series is a journey into the math of the information age--the mathematical thinking skills used in writing computer programs and organizing spreadsheet data.

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