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    Originally Posted by master of none
    ... my kids hated it. We thought it would be problem solving but instead it was more of a game where you figure out how to get to problems to solve. We wanted a game where the GAME was the math problems.

    And the math problems were not engaging to my kids. Too tedious and short on concept.

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    DS loved it - but he was very game-naive at the time and also was meeting a lot of the maths for the first time (we gave it to him for his 6th birthday and he did it on and off over the next year). I doubt it would work so well without those factors.


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