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** Goo Falls is a simple puzzle - you can only move your goo beetle to areas that match either the colour or the symbol of your beetle. Once you have passed by a tile, they become wild (until you go through them again) so the player can use a different beetle to try and reach the top.
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** Goo Falls is a simple puzzle - you can only move your goo beetle to areas that match either the colour or the symbol of your beetle. Once you have passed by a tile, they become wild (until you go through them again) so the player can use a different beetle to try and reach the top.top ''and'' has a visible path.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''3rd Grade'' features more minimalistic animation, bizarro episodes, three full-sized "Worlds" (as opposed to the third act being a rush where you do not have to gather any kind of resource.), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking different theme music]].
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''3rd Grade'' features more minimalistic animation, bizarro episodes, three full-sized "Worlds" (as opposed to the third act being a rush where you do not have to gather any kind of resource.), resource), Santiago's voice is lighter pitch, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking different theme music]].
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For once? This is the first game in the series, also adults are useless usually refers to kids doing things on their own when an adult is just as or more likely to do the same thing
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* AdultsAreUseless: Aversion for once. [[spoiler:Fletcher Limburger seemed to be able to reach the Lost City ''long'' before the [=ClueFinders=] did, just not the way the Numerian people intended, as he likely flew over the walls.]]
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* AdultsAreUseless: Aversion A group of kids are dropped into the rainforest to search for once. [[spoiler:Fletcher Limburger seemed a missing person, and not one responsible adult is there to be able help, and they somehow make more progress in a single day than any previous attempt to reach find the Lost City ''long'' before the [=ClueFinders=] did, just not the way the Numerian people intended, person. Lightly subverted for Fletcher, their pilot, [[spoiler: as he was part of the plot the whole time and likely flew over the walls.just chose not to offer any help outside of his services.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Limburger is a poacher who [[ScoobyDooHoax disguised his plane as Mathra]] to cover-up his actions. Though at the end, it's shown that Mathra was RealAfterAll]].
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: A tapir appears as one of the animals fleeing from Mathra in the "Do You Believe in Monsters?" song sequence.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: A whole kingdom of them.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Despite that you are intended to solve the problems one by one to figure out which tiles equal which letter in one activity, if you can deduce which tiles will equal a letter based upon another previously correct answer or existing letters (on earlier stages), the game will still allow you to uncover those despite that the given problem does not equal that. [[DevelopersForesight In fact, the in-game instruction will mention]] [[LoopholeAbuse it's still correct.]]
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: AntiFrustrationFeatures:
** Goo Falls is a simple puzzle - you can only move your goo beetle to areas that match either the colour or the symbol of your beetle. Once you have passed by a tile, they become wild (until you go through them again) so the player can use a different beetle to try and reach the top.
** Despite that you are intended to solve the problems one by one to figure out which tiles equal which letter in one activity, if you can deduce which tiles will equal a letter based upon another previously correct answer or existing letters (on earlier stages), the game will still allow you to uncover those despite that the given problem does not equal that. [[DevelopersForesight In fact, the in-game instruction will mention]] [[LoopholeAbuse it's still correct.]]
** Goo Falls is a simple puzzle - you can only move your goo beetle to areas that match either the colour or the symbol of your beetle. Once you have passed by a tile, they become wild (until you go through them again) so the player can use a different beetle to try and reach the top.
** Despite that you are intended to solve the problems one by one to figure out which tiles equal which letter in one activity, if you can deduce which tiles will equal a letter based upon another previously correct answer or existing letters (on earlier stages), the game will still allow you to uncover those despite that the given problem does not equal that. [[DevelopersForesight In fact, the in-game instruction will mention]] [[LoopholeAbuse it's still correct.]]
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Setting a precedent that much of the series would follow, it starts off with [[LetsSplitUpGang the kids splitting up]]. You, the player, follow Joni and Santiago for the whole game, [[ItsUpToYou while Owen and Leslie remain at the base came in order to "be your backup."]] The rainforest has four areas, each dedicated to a different academic subject. The game begins with the Monkey Kingdom (mathematics) and the Goo Lagoon (logic) being accessible. Your goal for both is to complete a FetchQuest that will ultimately get you one of the keys to the Lost City. Once you have the two keys, your next goal is to make it through the Jungle Canopy (geography) to reach the Lost City gates. The Lost City itself (science and language arts) is another FetchQuest, this one dedicated to rebuilding the ancient Mathra trap. Once you've done that, you've saved the rainforest and won the game.
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Setting a precedent that much of the series would follow, it starts off with [[LetsSplitUpGang the kids splitting up]]. You, the player, follow Joni and Santiago for the whole game, [[ItsUpToYou while Owen and Leslie remain at the base came camp in order to "be your backup."]] The rainforest has four areas, each dedicated to a different academic subject. The game begins with the Monkey Kingdom (mathematics) and the Goo Lagoon (logic) being accessible. Your goal for both is to complete a FetchQuest that will ultimately get you one of the keys to the Lost City. Once you have the two keys, your next goal is to make it through the Jungle Canopy (geography) to reach the Lost City gates. The Lost City itself (science and language arts) is another FetchQuest, this one dedicated to rebuilding the ancient Mathra trap. Once you've done that, you've saved the rainforest and won the game.
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** The guardian of the Chamber of Illusions speaks almost exactly like Creator/RodSerling of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. It even uses the phrases "picture if you will..." And quotes the show's opening.
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** Mr. Limburger's name is obviously a nod to Charles Lindbergh. You know, 'cause they're both airplane pilots. For some reason, the U.K. version changes his name to "Lindman." Did they think British kids wouldn't get the reference to an American aviator?
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* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Fletcher Q. Limburger
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In the year 2000, the Learning Company released ''The [=ClueFinders:=] Mystery of the Monkey Kingdom'', a pared-down version of this game that only includes the Monkey Kingdom segment.
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Setting a precedent that many games in the series would follow, it starts off with [[LetsSplitUpGang the kids splitting up]]. You, the player, follow Joni and Santiago for the whole game, [[ItsUpToYou while Owen and Leslie remain at the base came in order to "be your backup."]] There are four areas, each dedicated to a different academic subject. Of these, the Monkey Kingdom (mathematics) and the Goo Lagoon (logic) are accessible at the start. Later, you pass through the Jungle Canopy (geography) to reach the Lost City (science and language arts).
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Setting a precedent that many games in much of the series would follow, it starts off with [[LetsSplitUpGang the kids splitting up]]. You, the player, follow Joni and Santiago for the whole game, [[ItsUpToYou while Owen and Leslie remain at the base came in order to "be your backup."]] There are The rainforest has four areas, each dedicated to a different academic subject. Of these, The game begins with the Monkey Kingdom (mathematics) and the Goo Lagoon (logic) are accessible at being accessible. Your goal for both is to complete a FetchQuest that will ultimately get you one of the start. Later, keys to the Lost City. Once you pass have the two keys, your next goal is to make it through the Jungle Canopy (geography) to reach the Lost City gates. The Lost City itself (science and language arts).arts) is another FetchQuest, this one dedicated to rebuilding the ancient Mathra trap. Once you've done that, you've saved the rainforest and won the game.
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Setting a precedent that many games in the series would follow, it starts off with [[LetsSplitUpGang the kids splitting up]]. You, the player, follow Joni and Santiago for the whole game, [[ItsUpToYou while Owen and Leslie remain at the base came in order to "be your backup."]]"]] There are four areas, each dedicated to a different academic subject. Of these, the Monkey Kingdom (mathematics) and the Goo Lagoon (logic) are accessible at the start. Later, you pass through the Jungle Canopy (geography) to reach the Lost City (science and language arts).
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Deep in a South American rainforest, animals have been disappearing, allegedly due to the return of a mythical flying beast called Mathra. When Joni's uncle, the famous naturalist Dr. Horace Pythagoras, disappears as well, the [=ClueFinders=] are on the case.
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Deep in a South American rainforest, animals have been disappearing, allegedly due to the return of a mythical flying beast called Mathra. When Joni's uncle, the famous naturalist Dr. Horace Pythagoras, disappears as well, the [=ClueFinders=] are on the case. They are accompanied by [=LapTrap=], who at this point is a RobotBuddy of Dr. Pythagoras. In subsequent games, [=LapTrap=] will belong to the [=ClueFinders=] themselves.
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''The [=ClueFinders=] 3rd Grade Adventures: The Mystery of Mathra'' is the first entry in the ''VideoGame/ClueFinders'' series of {{Edutainment Game}}s.
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''The [=ClueFinders=] 3rd Grade Adventures: The Mystery of Mathra'' is the first entry in the ''VideoGame/ClueFinders'' EdutainmentGame series of {{Edutainment Game}}s.
''VideoGame/TheClueFinders''. It was originally released on January 6, 1998.
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* FlintstoneTheming: The Monkey Kingdom is built on puns that combine monkeys with colonial Spanish civilization. The simian inhabitants are called "monkeystadors" (play on conquistadors), and they're led by Vasco da Bongo (play on Vasco da Gama) and his wife Queen Itchybella (play on Queen Isabella).
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Of course, the existence of Mathra is ridiculous, unlike with all the other fantastical animals that live in the Numarian rainforest. What even is the difference between Mathra and Queen Itchybella's pet flabberwock? They're both green-skinned reptilian monsters.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Of course, the existence of Mathra is ridiculous, unlike with all the other fantastical animals that live in the Numarian rainforest. What even is the difference between Mathra and Queen Itchybella's pet flabberwock? Flabberwock? They're both green-skinned reptilian monsters.monsters, right?
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** The Flabberwock is a reference to the Jabberwock from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Of course, the existence of Mathra is ridiculous, unlike with all the other fantastical animals that live in the Numarian rainforest. What even is the difference between Mathra and Queen Itchybella's pet flabberwock? They're both green-skinned reptilian monsters.
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''The [=ClueFinders=] 3rd Grade Adventures: The Mystery of Mathra'' is the first entry in the ''VideoGame/ClueFinders'' series of {{Edutainment Game}}s.
Deep in a South American rainforest, animals have been disappearing, allegedly due to the return of a mythical flying beast called Mathra. When Joni's uncle, the famous naturalist Dr. Horace Pythagoras, disappears as well, the [=ClueFinders=] are on the case.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AccidentalMisnaming: This conversation, with WhosOnFirst in the mix.
-->'''Joni:''' ''(in regards to collecting sneeze berries)'' Listen Bingo.
-->'''Bongo:''' Bongo!
-->'''Santiago:''' Bongo?
-->'''Bongo:''' Bingo!
* AdultsAreUseless: Aversion for once. [[spoiler:Fletcher Limburger seemed to be able to reach the Lost City ''long'' before the [=ClueFinders=] did, just not the way the Numerian people intended, as he likely flew over the walls.]]
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Despite that you are intended to solve the problems one by one to figure out which tiles equal which letter in one activity, if you can deduce which tiles will equal a letter based upon another previously correct answer or existing letters (on earlier stages), the game will still allow you to uncover those despite that the given problem does not equal that. [[DevelopersForesight In fact, the in-game instruction will mention]] [[LoopholeAbuse it's still correct.]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: As the Cluefinders are rowing away, [[spoiler:Limburger crawls out of the bottomless pit and vows revenge against the Cluefinders. As he’s walking away, the real Mathra emerges and stares ominously at something offscreen.]]
* CollectiveGroan: In the opening:
-->'''Fletcher Limburger''': Well... peanuts, anyone?... that's what folks are saying, and there's an old superstition about a monster and a lost city.\\
'''Santiago''': Superstition?!\\
'''Leslie''': Lost city?\\
'''Joni''': Monster?!\\
'''Owen''': ...peanuts?\\
'''All''': '''''OWEN!'''''
* DevelopersForesight:
** Going back to the room which houses the key half after you've obtained it will have a golden trinket resting in its place. Joni even has new dialogue if you put it in her backpack.
** The Rings of Fire challenge has dialogue for you loophole-abusing. The game intends you to uncover tiles in a ''Battleship'' like way, but it will expect you to do it in a certain order (Based upon the math problems given to you). If you just play it like ''Battleship'' and fire at tiles that are "hits" based upon the ones you got correct before, the game will have dialogue for this.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''3rd Grade'' features more minimalistic animation, bizarro episodes, three full-sized "Worlds" (as opposed to the third act being a rush where you do not have to gather any kind of resource.), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking different theme music]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Leslie and Owen both get these at the beginning of the game. Owen is distracted from the group's mission by food, setting up his BigEater tendencies and Leslie remarks that she remembers reading about the lost city their pilot mentioned, setting up her position as TheSmartGuy.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: A whole kingdom of them.
* IAmNotWeasel: The monkeys refer to the Cluefinders as hairless chimpanzees. [[FridgeLogic Don't ask how a bunch of New World monkeys were able to acknowledge the existence of chimpanzees.]]
* InterfaceSpoiler: You can open up the map as soon as you start the game up and can see all three "worlds" in the game.
* LoopholeAbuse: Gameplay example. You have to solve the problems to figure out which tiles you had to hit in a ''Battleship'' style game. However, if you have a previously-existing right answer, you can simply hit adjacent tiles (Even if they are not the "correct" answer), and the game will accept this.
* LostWorld: The setting.
* {{Mayincatec}}: The Numerians. Justified, since they're fictional.
* NotUsingTheZWord: Mathra is, for all intents and purposes, a dragon. While he has only four limbs, making him resemble a wyvern, he also exhibits all the major features of a Western dragon, right down to breathing fire. But in the game, he's only ever identified as a "monster" or, occasionally, a "beast".
* RealAfterAll: [[spoiler: Mathra.]]
* SchizoTech: One can't help but wonder how the "Numerians" built a computer a thousand years ago.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: A tapir appears as one of the animals fleeing from Mathra in the "Do You Believe in Monsters?" song sequence.
* ShoutOut:
** [[{{Kaiju}} Mathra]] is an obvious reference to Film/{{Mothra}} of ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fame. Though he's not a giant insect but a flying reptile, making him more reminiscent of Film/{{Rodan}}.
** There is a flower that quotes ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', speaking in a cockney accent.
** There's also the [[Music/TheBeatles talking plant quartet with British accents]]. They call their swamp home "Liverpuddle". This section of the game has [[WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine colorful animations and the design of the talking plant quartet]] as well. They are also the ones to introduce players to beetle bags.
** The guardian of the Chamber of Illusions speaks almost exactly like Creator/RodSerling of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. It even uses the phrases "picture if you will..." And quotes the show's opening.
* TrialAndErrorGameplay: The gate challenges the Monkey Kingdom are very much like this, especially on CHALLENGE difficulty. Oftentimes the appropriate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division tiles will all be visible and you just stand there throwing sneezeberries at them hoping that they're correct. Fortunately, however, if you get a correct letter, you can often figure out where the rest of the ones in the word are and hit them even when the numbers don't match up.
* WhenHeSmiles: [[spoiler:Mathra at the end.]]
Deep in a South American rainforest, animals have been disappearing, allegedly due to the return of a mythical flying beast called Mathra. When Joni's uncle, the famous naturalist Dr. Horace Pythagoras, disappears as well, the [=ClueFinders=] are on the case.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* AccidentalMisnaming: This conversation, with WhosOnFirst in the mix.
-->'''Joni:''' ''(in regards to collecting sneeze berries)'' Listen Bingo.
-->'''Bongo:''' Bongo!
-->'''Santiago:''' Bongo?
-->'''Bongo:''' Bingo!
* AdultsAreUseless: Aversion for once. [[spoiler:Fletcher Limburger seemed to be able to reach the Lost City ''long'' before the [=ClueFinders=] did, just not the way the Numerian people intended, as he likely flew over the walls.]]
* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Despite that you are intended to solve the problems one by one to figure out which tiles equal which letter in one activity, if you can deduce which tiles will equal a letter based upon another previously correct answer or existing letters (on earlier stages), the game will still allow you to uncover those despite that the given problem does not equal that. [[DevelopersForesight In fact, the in-game instruction will mention]] [[LoopholeAbuse it's still correct.]]
* {{Cliffhanger}}: As the Cluefinders are rowing away, [[spoiler:Limburger crawls out of the bottomless pit and vows revenge against the Cluefinders. As he’s walking away, the real Mathra emerges and stares ominously at something offscreen.]]
* CollectiveGroan: In the opening:
-->'''Fletcher Limburger''': Well... peanuts, anyone?... that's what folks are saying, and there's an old superstition about a monster and a lost city.\\
'''Santiago''': Superstition?!\\
'''Leslie''': Lost city?\\
'''Joni''': Monster?!\\
'''Owen''': ...peanuts?\\
'''All''': '''''OWEN!'''''
* DevelopersForesight:
** Going back to the room which houses the key half after you've obtained it will have a golden trinket resting in its place. Joni even has new dialogue if you put it in her backpack.
** The Rings of Fire challenge has dialogue for you loophole-abusing. The game intends you to uncover tiles in a ''Battleship'' like way, but it will expect you to do it in a certain order (Based upon the math problems given to you). If you just play it like ''Battleship'' and fire at tiles that are "hits" based upon the ones you got correct before, the game will have dialogue for this.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''3rd Grade'' features more minimalistic animation, bizarro episodes, three full-sized "Worlds" (as opposed to the third act being a rush where you do not have to gather any kind of resource.), and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking different theme music]].
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Leslie and Owen both get these at the beginning of the game. Owen is distracted from the group's mission by food, setting up his BigEater tendencies and Leslie remarks that she remembers reading about the lost city their pilot mentioned, setting up her position as TheSmartGuy.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: A whole kingdom of them.
* IAmNotWeasel: The monkeys refer to the Cluefinders as hairless chimpanzees. [[FridgeLogic Don't ask how a bunch of New World monkeys were able to acknowledge the existence of chimpanzees.]]
* InterfaceSpoiler: You can open up the map as soon as you start the game up and can see all three "worlds" in the game.
* LoopholeAbuse: Gameplay example. You have to solve the problems to figure out which tiles you had to hit in a ''Battleship'' style game. However, if you have a previously-existing right answer, you can simply hit adjacent tiles (Even if they are not the "correct" answer), and the game will accept this.
* LostWorld: The setting.
* {{Mayincatec}}: The Numerians. Justified, since they're fictional.
* NotUsingTheZWord: Mathra is, for all intents and purposes, a dragon. While he has only four limbs, making him resemble a wyvern, he also exhibits all the major features of a Western dragon, right down to breathing fire. But in the game, he's only ever identified as a "monster" or, occasionally, a "beast".
* RealAfterAll: [[spoiler: Mathra.]]
* SchizoTech: One can't help but wonder how the "Numerians" built a computer a thousand years ago.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: A tapir appears as one of the animals fleeing from Mathra in the "Do You Believe in Monsters?" song sequence.
* ShoutOut:
** [[{{Kaiju}} Mathra]] is an obvious reference to Film/{{Mothra}} of ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fame. Though he's not a giant insect but a flying reptile, making him more reminiscent of Film/{{Rodan}}.
** There is a flower that quotes ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', speaking in a cockney accent.
** There's also the [[Music/TheBeatles talking plant quartet with British accents]]. They call their swamp home "Liverpuddle". This section of the game has [[WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine colorful animations and the design of the talking plant quartet]] as well. They are also the ones to introduce players to beetle bags.
** The guardian of the Chamber of Illusions speaks almost exactly like Creator/RodSerling of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. It even uses the phrases "picture if you will..." And quotes the show's opening.
* TrialAndErrorGameplay: The gate challenges the Monkey Kingdom are very much like this, especially on CHALLENGE difficulty. Oftentimes the appropriate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division tiles will all be visible and you just stand there throwing sneezeberries at them hoping that they're correct. Fortunately, however, if you get a correct letter, you can often figure out where the rest of the ones in the word are and hit them even when the numbers don't match up.
* WhenHeSmiles: [[spoiler:Mathra at the end.]]
