LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Get Puzzled
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Toys and Games Reviews of LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game Scholastic Get Puzzled
Customer Review: The best game we've gotten so far!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Customer Review: Fun & Sometimes Frustrating.
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Customer Review: Teach your child critical thinking skills
Summary: 4 Stars
There are certain Leapster games my 4 and 7 year old children get attached to and this isn't one of them. It is certainly a good game and helps kids with spelling, critical thinking and math. I tried it and it's rather fun. My son saw me playing it and he said he liked Critter River best. In fact, I think watching me play reignited his interest. There are three levels in each game to give each child just the right amount of challenge.
Critter River: Use the shapes to build a bridge to the other side of the river.
Word Bird: This is a word search game. In the lowest level, the words that need to be found are shown. In the highest level, a picture of the word is shown so that the child must spell the word and find it on his/her own.
Cosmic Crossing: Guide the rocket from planet to planet to get to Earth. If the child is not careful planning his route, he will shoot off into space.
About Face: Try to make the sad faces happy by giving them the features they ask for, like a blue hat and a round nose or the shortest hair.
Monster Maker: Look at the monster and remember what it looks like. The parts get scrambled and the child has to put it back together exactly as it looked.
Sky High: Build two walls that are the same height. The length of the blocks are written on the blocks to help decide which blocks go together.
My son is enjoying this game right now. I have to give it 4 stars.
Customer Review: Great teaching tool--needs a bit more variety in problems
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Customer Review: The best Leapster game to start with!
Summary: 5 Stars
My son just turned three and he LOVES this game. He can do it all by himself, which makes him feel like a big kid. The cartridge comes with several games, all a lot of fun for his age group. Each game has three levels, for beginners, kids who are starting to master each activity, and kiddos who need a challenge. His favorite is the monster builder. It starts with a picture of a monster to memorize. When you press the electrode (my son's new favorite word!) the monster comes apart, and you have to rebuild it. It's great for memorization, and there's a hint button if you need to take one more peek at the monster. There's also a bridge building game, where you have to build a bridge using different-shaped pieces to get your creature from one end to the other, a space ship game to master the arrow keys, and a construction game that teaches basic math.
The only drawback to this game (and it's not much of one!) is that it's sometimes hard to use the stylus. With the monster builder especially, there are several pieces sometimes directly on top of each other, and you need to select a piece, drag it to where it goes, then lift up on the pen. If you click a little to the side or lift up slightly, you lose your piece. It frustrated my son a bit at first, but it's all part of the learning process.
Overall, we love this game in our house and I couldn't recommend it more!