Cyberchase Games for Kids

"Cyberchase Squares"

• "Cyberchase" adds a "Hollywood Squares" twist to "Cyberchase Squares," in which players find the counterexample to statements. For each statement the host reads, eight of the nine contestants' responses fit the statement; one response, however, makes the statement invalid. Players move their mouse over the nine contestants to see their responses, choosing the one that conflicts with the host's statement. For instance, if the statement says that all birds can fly, players click on the contestant whose answer defies that statement.

  Cyberchase Squares
  http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/counterexamples/

"Logic Zoo"

• Zoo animals run wild after "Cyberchase's" Hacker lets them loose in "Logic Zoo." Players look at animals' characteristics and return them to their proper pens. For instance, if one area of the zoo houses animals that are brown in one pen and houses animals that have short legs in another pen, players drag animals matching either of those descriptions to the corresponding pen. For animals matching both characteristics, players drag them to the pen located in the middle of those two pens. Players drag animals not fitting either category to the "Outer" section .

  Logic Zoo
  http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/logic/

"Lucky Star"

• "Cyberchase's" Jackie hosts the "Lucky Star" game show, in which players answer math-related questions. The "Pick-a-Star" round gives players as much time as they need to answer multiple-choice questions. Players earn 100 points per correct answer, except when they choose the "lucky star," for which they earn anywhere from 200 to 500 points. The "Lightning Round" gives players 60 seconds to solve as many math equations as possible; players earn 20 points for each correct answer.

  Lucky Star
  http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/lucky_star/launch.html

"Mission: Magnetite"

• Players crack codes to stop "Cyberchase's" Hacker from dropping magnetite on Motherboard Central in this game. (Magnitite is an iron oxide that is the most magnetic of all the natural occurring minerals on Earth.) As players match equivalent images, Hacker races to fill up his rocket with magnetite. To match equivalents, players first click a percentage, followed by its equivalent fraction and then an equivalent picture representation. Once players match all equivalents on the screen, Hacker's rocket loses all of its fuel, and the next level begins.

  Mission: Magnetite
  http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/percent/

"Pattern Quest"

• Choosing from among six shapes, say a space car, players have eight tries to guess patterns in the "Cyberchase" game "Pattern Quest." Four shapes--of any combination--comprise a pattern. Square clues separated into four triangles appear at the end of each pattern line; if players had one or more shapes correct in the previous pattern line, the corresponding triangle(s) within the square appear shaded in. Each triangle with the square clue is numbered in a way that gives you clues as to how to guess the pattern in order to fill in the square.

  Pattern Quest
  http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/data/

"Railroad Repair"

• Players help the Cybersquad fill in the gaps on the Trans-Cyberspace Railroad in "Railroad Repair." Ten spare tracks hold the number of corresponding pieces--for instance, the first track has one piece, while the 10th track has 10 pieces. If the railroad needs five pieces, players drag to the railroad the five-track piece, or any combination of tracks that make five pieces. The game ends when players have filled in all the railroad's missing sections and the train makes it to the station.

  Railroad Repair
  http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/decimals/