Zoombinis Logical Journey is an adventure game for kids that employs the use of mathematics, logic puzzles, and critical thinking skills to help the fictional characters of the game, the Zoombinis, on their quest to outrun the diabolical Bloats who have seized Zoombini Isle, and find a new home.

By setting up the story in this manner, children become engaged in seeking to help fulfill the Zoombini’s quest. For them, it is all about playing a game, challenging themselves, and having fun. They are blissfully unaware that they are actually engaged in any type of “learning”.

This game helps to inculcate practical skills that can be applied in real life, into the mind of the child, such as deductive reasoning, pattern recognition, testing of hypotheses, organization of information, and reasoning of evidence. And this is all while helping to lead the Zoombinis toward their freedom.

The Zoombinis journey follows 4 trails, with a total of 12 different puzzles that beckon the player to solve them. This game is addicting, educational, entertaining, and challenging.

CW4Kids is the popular name of the 4Kids.tv website created and run by the CW television network. CW4Kids has plenty of games that the kids will love to play, but there are also excellent opportunities for kids to find activities and puzzles that encourage learning.

At CW4Kids, kids can interact with other members at the site in a safe environment. Children are able to challenge each other on each game or even interact with each other on a messaging system that incorporates pre-written messages. This allows kids to choose from a list of messages to send to their friends, but also maintains a safe environment.

CW Kids Games Page

From the main page, kids get to choose from a great variety of games and activities. Available activities include puzzles, arcade style games, word games and much more. The main page features a different “featured game” every day so that there’s always something new to check out. Also, CW features a list of the top five point leaders as motivation for kids to work their way up the ranks.

Games Highlights and Categories

When you scroll down to the bottom of the main page, you’ll discover games organized into different sections. For example, you’ll see a set of spotlight games, featured activities, and also games sorted by the show they’re based on, or the category of the game.

The category section is great for kids that really like certain types of games, like action, puzzles or other game types. Kids can go straight to that section certain that they’ll find something to do that they’ll love to play.

Mechanical Commando

One example of one of the arcade games that are available at the CW Kids Games section includes Mechanical Commando, where kids navigate a tank through various mazes, dodge enemy drones and try to shoot them with different weapons. The quality of most of these games is somewhat average, but they are better than most of the free flash games that you’ll find at other sites.

Chaotic

A great example of some of the strategy games is the game called Chaotic. Chaotic is a modernized version of the original game called Othello, where you must change all game pieces to your own color by enclosing your player’s pieces by yours. The strategy and puzzle pieces offered by CW Games are all well done. They are almost all remade classics with great graphics and cool background music to hold the interest of any child.

Pyramid Stones

Another great example of a great educational game you’ll find at CW Kids is Pyramid Stones. In this game, kids need to hold down the mouse button to size stones and size them appropriately to balance the scale. Each stage gets more complicated as various sized stones get piled onto one side. The name of the game is to match the weight as closely as possible without going over and tipping the scale too far.

Lots of Mazes

Throughout the activity area, you’ll also come across a wide variety of creative mazes that really push the IQ of any child. There are some mazes that test the child’s ability to solve multiple puzzles at once by manipulating the keyboard directional keys to land the solid white square into the hollow one. Such a process of concentrating on several complex goals at once can greatly accelerate the development of advanced problem solving skills.

Kids Can Win Prizes

At CW Kids, there are also lots of educational or just plain fun activities for kids to choose from. One example of such an activity is “papercraft” patterns that kids can use to build paper model figures of their favorite CW figures.

CW Game Challenges

Throughout CW Games, kids can also challenge other players to face off against them in many of the games that are available throughout the website. Both players accumulate points in such challenges, but the winner gets to have the results published under “Recent Challenge Results” in the Challenge section of the website.

Sending Messages

One of the things that is most important to parents is that any website their kids are members at should not allow any sort of messaging system where members can type out private messages to each other. CW Kids alleviates those concerns by providing kids with a messaging system that has prefilled messages for kids to choose from. This prevents private conversations where children could get in trouble, but it still allows kids to send fun messages back and forth.

Rewards Plaza

Kids that play games at CW Kids even have the opportunity to win real prizes. By building up points after playing games or winning challenges, children get to trade in those points for small gifts. While the gifts aren’t extremely expensive (in fact, most are only virtual), they do make kids feel as though they’ve made a great accomplishment.

CW Kids is an excellent example of a children’s game site that parents can feel good about letting their kids play. The environment is safe, and the variety of games allow for a little bit of fun mixed in with a little bit of learning and education.

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