Ingenious!

Released: 1997

This edutainment game challenges 8- to 14-year-old children to become science detectives and solve science mysteries. Distributed for free to Australian schools, it was widely played by schoolchildren of the late 90s and early 2000s. Its content is divided into five parts:

Are We Alone? - learn about the search for alien intelligence

Racing on the Sun - design a solar car

Something Fishy - discover the reason behind a massive die-off of pilchards

Fire Fighter - simulates bushfire fighting

The Last Tribe - the quest to save an endangered wallaby species