| | |  |  Electronic Games | Home » » » LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Get Puzzled | | | | | | | 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 | | | 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.
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| 0.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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74 of 74 found the following review helpful:
 Fun & Sometimes Frustrating.Nov 09, 2007
By T. Hough
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.
46 of 47 found the following review helpful:
 Fun, but not necessarily educational for the indicated age groupAug 29, 2010
By Musicfan
"rl"
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 found the following review helpful:
Great teaching tool--needs a bit more variety in problemsJan 16, 2008
By P. Stewart
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.
25 of 26 found the following review helpful:
A Great Game!Dec 26, 2007
By Yeehing Lam
"nilsho"
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.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
The best game we've gotten so far!Feb 22, 2009
By Shaunt A. Nigoghossian
For Christmas I got my son the Leapster and 4 games. Thomas the Tank Engine, Wall-E (cause they're both brands that my son likes a lot), Sonic the Hedgehog (cause the reviews were great and it's closer to a real video game) and "Get Puzzled." Of all of these I thought Get Puzzled would be the last one he'd play. It was the one he gravitated towards right away and he absolutely loves it. All the games I bought got great reviews, but this was has by far held his interest. He's 4 1/2 years old..and pretty smart for his age. The game wasn't amazingly challenging for him (he skipped from level 1 to 3 most of the time) but it's been a couple months and he still prefers playing this game over the others.
I will completely disagree with the parent who said it has no educational value. It absolutely does. In fact, of all the games that I got, I think it has the most variety.
Their are many different games in "Get Puzzled"....the one my son likes the most is a game that uses logic/problem solving/comprehension skills and teaches patience. It's a space ship that you have to get from point to point on the screen until you get it to earth. There is a game that uses Math and shapes. A word search game that will show you 6 pictures (a drum, trumpet, piano, violin, guitar, etc.) and you'll try to find the corresponding words in the word search. If you don't know how to spell the word you can push on the picture and it'll spell it out for you.
Overall...even though my son blew through the game pretty quickly, he continues to enjoy it and he continues to learn things.
I would recommend this game over any other game...absolutely. Even the ones with the more name brand characters.
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