![]() Some move in a straight line, others follow you, and some leave new numbers or eat the right ones. ![]() Yet it's still simple enough: walk your Number Muncher on a thirty-square board so he eats the right numbers (space bar.) Your Number Muncher, a frog with a massive underbite, wise-guy smile and no body or arms, must also evade Troggles, who are eggs on legs of varying colors, intelligence and aggression. NM's randomness forces the would-be expert to learn number patterns as well as speedy arithmetic. The latter, after several plays through, become veiled, randomized multiple-choice exams a notch above vocabulary baseball and other didactic educational games. And it's more ambitious than its better-known peers, the Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego series. It's more exciting than some lousy flash cards or even chalkboard problem solving races, and it has high score lists, with names, for each sub-game. ![]() Number Munchers (NM) had six cut-scenes Pac-Man had only three, and they weren't nearly as funny. The latter, after several plays through, become veiled, randomized multiple-choice exams a notch above vocabulary baseball and other didacti." ![]() " Number Munchers (NM) had six cut-scenes Pac-Man had only three, and they weren't nearly as funny.
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