In The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures, the titular ClueFinders find themselves stranded on a mysterious "living" island, which of course can only be escaped through solving the usual round of edutainment puzzles.
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Unused Activity Parameters#
Spelling Catwalks#
Some of the voice lines for the Spelling Catwalks activity correspond to words that the game will never actually ask you to spell, though the lines can still be made to play in-game by editing the associated dataset file.
ID |
Word |
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9 |
aim |
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10 |
mission |
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11 |
hypothesis |
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12 |
concentrate |
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13 |
origins |
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40 |
journey |
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41 |
kilometer |
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42 |
mystery |
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43 |
sign |
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65 |
council |
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66 |
choice |
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67 |
judicial |
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68 |
unknown |
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92 |
drought |
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93 |
thoughtful |
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94 |
strife |
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152 |
science |
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153 |
strike |
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155 |
democracy |
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There's also an unused duplicate of a used word, with slightly different line reads on the audio:
ID |
Word |
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Unused |
91 |
thorough |
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Used |
145 |
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Biosphere Chamber#
The Biosphere Chamber activity has 40 species of animal defined in its code, but only 27 of them are used in the default datasets. Like with the unused Catwalk words, these extra animals are fully functional if made to load via file editing, though due to the way data for this activity is stored their only truly unique properties are the name strings and icons (predator/prey designation and birth rate are defined per slot rather than per species, and nonviable species interactions are only coded in for the used animals).
ID |
Name (English) |
Name (French) |
Icon |
Notes |
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1 |
Hammerhead |
Requin |
Uses a unique icon. |
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6 |
Fur Seal |
Phoque barbu |
Icon is shared with the used Sea Lion and Seal. |
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7 |
Ringed Seal |
Phoque annel |
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11 |
Flounder |
Sole |
Icon is shared with various used fish (Salmon, Fish, Trout, Herring, Cod, and Salmon). |
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14 |
Eel |
Anguille |
Uses a unique icon. |
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18 |
Leopard |
Léopard |
Icon is shared with the used Wolf and Fox. |
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21 |
Coyote |
Coyote |
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26 |
Rabbit |
Lièvre |
Uses a unique icon. |
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28 |
Lion |
Lion |
Icon is shared with the used Ocelot. |
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30 |
Hawk |
Faucon |
Icon is shared with the used Eagle. |
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33 |
Antelope |
Antilope |
Icon is shared with the used Caribou. |
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35 |
Mule Deer |
Mule Cerf |
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36 |
Elk |
Elan |
Unseen Font Graphic#
The game uses a unique symbol-based "alien font" to obfuscate text in a few specific places (as part of the gameplay in Faces Within the Face and Fish Within the Fish, and briefly in the intro cutscene of Biosphere Chamber), but the letter J isn't used in any of those activities' scripts, so its associated symbol is never seen under normal circumstances.
Unseen Text#
On levels 3 and 4 of the Fish Within the Fish activity, the labels denoting each fish's effect are hidden as a way of further increasing the difficulty, but text lines that would be used for them are still defined in the activity's dataset file anyway.
Level 3 (English):
-er
-ing
un-
antonym
Level 3 (French):
re-/ré-
de-/dé-
Passé
Antonyme
Level 4 (English):
un-
-able
-ed
antonym
Level 4 (French):
Présent
re-/ré-
dé-
Antonyme
Regional Differences#
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In Non-North American releases, the maps used in the Poison Garden activity replace much of the American centric maps with maps of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Brazilian and French versions have their own exclusive maps of Brazil and France. Interestingly enough, there is a USA cities map that is exclusive to the French version.
References#
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The ClueFinders series | |
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Windows, Mac OS Classic |
3rd Grade Adventures • 4th Grade Adventures • 5th Grade Adventures • Math Adventures • The Incredible Toy Store Adventure! |
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Mac OS X |
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