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LeapFrog® Leapster® Learning Game: Scholastic Get Puzzledx$17.32
 (13 reviews)
Best Price: $24.99 $17.32
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. Playing these challenging puzzles will help kids develop logic, language and problem solving skills. Designed for use with Leapster and Leapster L-Max learning game systems. Subjects Include:
MPN: 20380 - UPC: 708431203808
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Customer Reviews
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Fun & Sometimes Frustrating. 
By A2RMHCC4VPIQ60 on 2007-11-09
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.
Great Fun!
By AVKPIB44EN4L8 on 2007-11-26
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!
A Great Game!
By A39BUO22NDTAAP on 2007-12-26
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 teaching tool--needs a bit more variety in problems
By A10K7LVW5QB47Z on 2008-01-16
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.
Good Pick
By A1F3L6XVK0X80V on 2007-11-15
This game is lots of fun. We own quite a few leapsster games, but I find that my boys; 6 and 4, play this game the most. They especially like building the silly monsters.
- Awesome game!
By A2IAI3W24OG3EX on 2007-10-26
My son received this game for his 4th birthday and absolutely loves it! Although he beat the game in two weeks, he still plays it very often. I highly recommend this leapster game.
- Best Leapster Game
By AVGOBCHN3V2VT on 2008-10-26
This is hands down the best Leapster game. We have about 12 or so of them.
Our 6 yo has plowed through all of the puzzles, but still enjoys going back.
Our soon to be 3 yo twin girls fell in love with this recently. I am buying a second one because they both want to play it so much.
There is a really nice range to the complexity of the games. Monster Maker (and the easier critter crossings) can be handled by The Girls. The Boy can still get some challenge from the advanced puzzles though. That gives them *years* with this thing to stretch their brain.
The LeapFrog Leapster® Educational Video: The Letter Factory game is equally educational but *incredibly annoying* with the relentless singing. "Get Puzzled" is more educational and actually semi-interesting for a non-kid (at least a geeky non-kid) because the puzzles are non-trivial.
Just a great game. Every kid would benefit from these logic puzzles. Almost makes me forgive Leap Frog for taking "Shape Shop" off of their latest edition of the leapster. Grrr...
- Happy with this one, too!
By A1HVKJO0RQYSGH on 2007-12-29
My grand daughter likes this game very much. It makes this grandma happy when the grand kids are happy!!
- Wonderful buy
By A34MK9FO4KIPZG on 2008-01-08
My son got Sonic and this game for xmas; he keeps saying that sonic is more fun but cant stop playing get puzzled!! The cartridge includes 5 or 6 games with 3 levels each and 15 puzzles each level.. my son has around 5 puzzles left to solve... IM VERY GLAD HE GOT THIS GAME FOR XMAS.
- 4 Year old loves the puzzles...she's learning without realizing it!
By APYZL0QZOCMOH on 2008-03-24
The puzzles presented in this are so much fun for my 4 year old, and she's learning math without having to do the standard "flash card" type exercises! She plays this for hours and is committed to making it to the next level on each game. It's a nice change from the character-oriented games she's used to playing. I highly recommend this game!
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| Product 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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