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Does anyone have any recommendations for software? Wondering if anyone has used the veterinarian type games or roller coaster building? I am totally open to suggestions! For anyone who has a child interested in Music "Mozarts Magic Flute" is great.

We are zoo tycoon fans in our house (although my DS 7 spends as much time releasing animals to chase guests as he does building quality exhibits ). We also have rollercoaster tycoon, which we thought we'd like a lot, but so far no one has gotten hooked on it. I think it's a bit less user friendly and less interesting. My kids really enjoy the details in the animal actions in their zoos. We have one of the older versions (not "3D") and have not been motivated to upgrade, so I don't know how the newer versions are. I think we bought our software almost 2 years ago, and it's still a frequent activity choice in our home. I'm not familiar with Mozart's Magic Flute. What age range/skill level is matched to?

Mozart's Magic Flute - my son started playing this when he was four or five but it really can appeal to any age. It has a tale about young Mozart and there are many activities that require isolating instruments by sound or identifying tunes that are "warped". Really develops and enhances music "listening" skills and also of course show instruments and their names etc. I liked it because it required a different thought process than many games. It was aural and not visual. It was hard to find i any stores though and I ended up ordering it online.

Zoo Tycoon sounds neat. I imagine my little "animals" would relish releasing rampaging elephants and wild tigers on hapless zoo goers as well!