Thinkin' Things Galactic Brain Benders Retail Jewel

Develop problem solving skills essential for
success!

Product Information


Learn to think out of this world.  Your brainpower is needed all across the
galaxy!  Develop logic, sequencing, and decision-making skills as you trade
earth objects, organize Fripples in space, and alter gravity and motion. 
You'll discover worlds to see and do, with new challenges every nanosecond you
play!


Thinkin' Things Galactic Brain Benders is brimming with learning opportunities
for students working on their own or with others.  Includes five stellar
game environments with hundreds of problem-solving challenges and dozens of
skill levels you control.  The activities build logic and reasoning skills
and let children explore gravity, motion, inertia and more!


Builds thinking and problem-solving skills.  Blast off to a galaxy of
brain-building fun!

Skills Learned

• Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
  
• Early Computer Programming Skills
  
• Predict Outcomes and Test Rules
  
• Gravity, Friction, Motion and Inertia
  
• Analyze and Synthesize Information

Product Features

Assess, Deduce & Trade!

With Stocktopus as your broker, exchange items with traders from around the
world. Make the trade sequences required to achieve your "portfolio"
goals. Next step: Wall Street!


Carving BLOX

Enter a world where balls roll and collide on virtual metal that you shape. Send
balls up inclines, through grooves and down holes as you experiment with physics
properties.

Manipulate Special Effects

Tiny green aliens have used special effects tools to change a photograph.
Analyze the picture and line up the alien team that faded, dented and twisted
it. Create your own images!

Strengthen Deductive Reasoning

Solve the Case of the Empty ripple House. The Fripples can't move in until you
read the clues in each room and determine where each Fripple belongs.

Build Programming Skills

It's football season - create the half-time show! Learn beginning computer
programming skills as you and control moving formations of marching bands,
players and cheerleaders.



Windows Requirements

• Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP
  
  
• Pentium processor or better
  
  
• 16MB of RAM
  
  
• Hard disk space with 12MB free
  
  
• 640 x 480, high color
  
  
• 2X or faster CD-ROM drive
  
  
• Windows compatible sound card
  
  
• Optional: Edmark TouchWindow
  
  
• Optional: Microphone (not included)
  
  
• Optional: Internet Access

Macintosh Requirements

• System 7.1.2 to 9.x and Mac OS X Classic
  Mode
  
  
• Power PC
  
  
• 16MB of RAM, 700K unused
  
  
• Hard disk space with 12MB free
  
  
• 640 x 480, high color
  
  
• 2X or faster CD-ROM drive
  
  
• Windows compatible sound card
  
  
• Optional: Edmark TouchWindow
  
  
• Optional: Microphone (not included)
  
  
• Optional: Internet Access

NOTE:  The Thinkin' Things Galactic
Brain Benders title also goes by the title 'Thinkin' Things
Collection 3'