The games have the same building and the same basic set up so if you know how to navigate one you can navigate them all. You start out in the elevator and by clicking on the number of the first floor then the door. You must complete the first level before moving on to the next one and so one. There are three patients or puzzles to complete on each floor and when you examine the patients or work on a puzzle you are told about the patient or puzzle and given hints as to what you will need to complete the puzzle or cure the patient. You then go into the remaining rooms and using your medical/science book figure out what objects do and what you need to pick up. You then go back to the room and click on the object then on the patient or puzzle.

There are three challenge settings in each game. On the preschool level if the child makes a mistake partway through they do not have to start over the patient says “ouch” and the directions are repeated. The higher levels are challenging enough to keep the interest of older children.

The games require no reading a basic understanding of number 1-5 is helpful but not really needed except to choose the current or next level. Even then once the preschooler knows what to do it wouldn’t matter if they used Roman Numerals because knowing the symbol isn’t as important as knowing what to do next. There are four levels with activities once the child is finished with all four levels they can go to the fifth level and print out a certificate of completion.

My son loved having his picture next to the mouse pointer that I added in the game options. It didn’t take much time and was a very simple process.


The pack of games I bought included:

Jr. Architect
You go through and help the fairy tale animals and people design their dream homes. Once you build the structure you can decorate then how ever you want.


Jr. Astronaut
In this game the child collects items to preform experiments in space and build or rebuild computers or other essential items for exploring space. My three and a half year old didn’t care for this game. He doesn’t understand that there is more to being an astronaut than piloting a space ship.


Jr. Fashion Designer
I have no sense of fashion and I found that half the time I had no clue what they were hinting at. I’m not sure if this is a fault in the design or a fault in my fashion sense. I’m leaning towards a fault in my sense of fashion. Because of my lack of competence my son soon lost interest in this game.


Jr. Vet
You treat animals from fairy tales for different ailments. My son’s second favorite.


Jr. Firefighter
I didn’t like this game because it had a tone of urgency to it that I felt made my son jumpy. There isn’t a time limit but even so he rushed and became frustrated when he couldn’t get the tasks done as fast as he felt he should.


Jr. Doctor
My son’s favorite! You go around treating people characters from fairytales. The child deals with everything from broken bones to heart attacks.


Jr. Inventor
While I thought this game was interesting my son didn’t understand the point and quickly lost interest in it.

Jr. Scientist
I encountered the same problem with this as I did with Jr. Inventor and Jr. Astronaut. My son didn’t understand and really didn’t care to figure it out. I think as he gets older these games will become more appealing to him but for now we will focus on his interests.

Jr. Dinosaur Hunter
The best thing about this game is that the kids are not finding dinosaur bones. The kids find the head, body and tail or wings of a certain dinosaur. Once you have found all the pieces of the dinosaur you can color and decorate the dinosaur.


The only faults I could find was an occasional glitch in the system. I found that on a rare occasion we couldn’t get into a room or in Jr. Dinosaur Hunter that once we are had made the dinosaur we couldn’t see the dinosaurs and we would have to shut the game down and start over building the dinosaur.