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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2025 1:57 pm



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Hello, everyone. In this Filler, I plan to give the Thinkin Things Series from Edmark the Scoring Measurement Treatment as the Scoring System differs from Game to Game.
The Thinking Things Series (All 10 Discs) is another Popular Edmark Series next to Mighty Math

While its possible to run the Thinkin Things Series on Early Windows NT OS, they're more stable on Windows 9x OS and you'll also need to use 256 Colors to run the games as they were designed to run on that.

This way, you can understand what the optimization scores mean for the actual games when you play them and how you can set the levels.
For the scoring, I'll either mention the Maximum/Minimum scores, as I have to play each of the games to find out.

*Thinkin Things Scoring*
= Discs 1-3: Classic Era
Disc 1: Thinkin Things Collection 1
Disc 2: Thinkin Things Collection 2
Disc 3: Thinkin Things Collection 3
= Discs 4-7: Remake Era
Disc 4: Thinkin Things Collection 1 - Toony Loon Lagoon
Disc 5: Thinkin Things Collection 2 - FrippleTown
Disc 6: Thinkin Things Collection 3 - Galactic Brain Benders
Disc 7: Thinkin Things Sky Island Mysteries
= Disc 8-10: Space & Science
Disc 8: Thinkin Science
Disc 9: Thinkin Science Zap
Disc 10: GX-1 Space Academy (Formerly Thinkin Space)
PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2025 6:13 pm


Thinkin Things Classic Era Disc 1: Thinkin Things Collection 1

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Starting with Thinkin Things Collection 1 in the Classic Era Disc 1, there are things worth mentioning. This was the first and Only DOS Game from Edmark I had growing up. The Reason why Edmark games are exceptional is because of the activities shown where 4 of them have Grow Sliders while 2 are creative activities for fun being the BLOX modes. One thing about Edutainment is this, you want to mask their subjects without eliminating them.

However, due to Edmark's Software Toy Nature, wrong answers are removed while the questions are not skipped until the player is forced to enter the correct one. Which is a good design choice as the player must put in the correct answer themselves even when the answer is shown because when doing so, it removes penalties counted against the player.

The BLOX Programs in Thinking Things 1 are the Flying Spheres and Bouncing Squares.

One thing to worth mention is to avoid Resetting your Level Progress in Earlier Edmark Games is to Disable the Grow Slider Icon in the Admin Mode or Adult Section by a CRTL-ALT A Key Combination. The Reason being is like the Quit Button, you want to make it impossible for the child to accidently quit the program or change levels on their own accord. However, you want to make it possible to exit the program if its part of a larger suite of software in classrooms or Library computers so that you would still have a quit button.

For the Music Games is that there's a Light Mode and Dark Mode. In the Dark Mode, it has an Audio only Cue which makes the Oranga Banga & Toony Loon Games Harder. Also, accessing the Grow Slider in earlier Edmark games DO NOT have a Cancel Button as going into it will Reset an activity's progress, so its best to use the Admin Features to NOT Show the Grow Slider when using the game until you're finished with the game


= Thinkin Things Collection 1 Grow Slider Chart
Toony Loon = 19 Points
Easy = 6 Points
Normal = 6 Points
Hard = 6 Points
Hardest = 1 Point

Oranga Banga = 19 Points
Easy = 6 Points
Normal = 6 Points
Hard = 6 Points
Hardest = 1 Point

Feathered Friends = 19 Points
Easy = 6 Points
Normal = 6 Points
Hard = 6 Points
Hardest = 1 Point

Fripple Shop = 19 Points
Easy = 6 Points
Normal = 6 Points
Hard = 6 Points
Hardest = 1 Point

Total Possible Points For Thinking Things Collection 1: 76 Points

One thing to note about Thinkin Things, like most Edutainment Games were mostly sold to Schools back then as their popularity came from schools while some were sold in retailers. But due to its popularity, most Edutainment Companies went Public in order to make a profit but this only lead to their downfall where Edmark was first brought out by IBM then Riverdeep to name an example

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 2:02 am


Thinking Things Disc 1: Thinkin Things Collection 1 Results
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 7:43 am


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