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(More customer reviews)This game is frustrating and confusing to a pre-schooler, and when my kid was in fact able to use it, it was mostly random guessing and clicking until it made a neat "hooray" noise.
There is no way they tested this game properly beginning-to-end on real kids that hadn't already at least completed kindergarten. It repeatedly tries to explain things to the pre-schooler using at least 1st grade intellect, which is entirely useless when your preschooler isn't fully grasping the meaning of counting from 1 to 10.
Some of the activities were entertaining and educational, once you got there, but parental help seemed to be a universal constant and requirement for this game. Most activities, however, were hopelessly cryptic for a pre-kindergartener, like for example those tagging a box with a number and the mathematical symbol for "greater than or equal". I do not believe for a second that a three year old is going to understand that, particularly when the other box has the same symbol backwards ("less than or equal"). My kid often draws his numbers backwards, for those few he is actually able to draw legibly, so he isn't going to be helped by math symbology with orientation-related semantics!
The makers do not seem to think that a video game for pre-schoolers should be usable by a pre-schooler with little more than a basic understanding of using a mouse.
At best, ignoring the distracting stuff your kid will not absorb, this game is just a restricted framework for a parent to work with their child, and I already have lots of those. They're called books. Number magnets on your refrigerator, and blank sheets of paper and a pencil work too, and are less restrictive, more useful, and no less demanding of a parent's constant attention than this program.
The program also had some pretty bad bugs, but we didn't do more than two sessions of this game, and won't, so they're not my main complaint.
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