PINGU

Access Route Start ╪ Programs ╪ Kid's World ╪ Pingu Ease of Use Easy   líííí   Difficult                 Yes              Yes GETTING STARTED GETTING AROUND THE PUZZLES MENU THE GAMES MENU SCREEN SAVERS THE DANCE SCREEN

Pingu and his friend Robby love playing with numbers, letters, colours and shapes. Join them to solve puzzles, play games or even sing along with them.  Choose a screen saver among the 5 funny animations to invite Pingu to your PC environment.

1/6-  GETTING STARTED

This is Pingu's Main Menu screen. 

At any time, you can click on the yellow Help button to obtain information anywhere when playing with Pingu.

From the main menu screen, you can start any of the following activities:

- Solve a Puzzle: Click on the green jigsaw piece

- Play a Game: Click on the yellow building block

- Choose a Screen saver: Click on the purple television screen

- Make Pingu Dance: Click on the green dance button

2/6- GETTING AROUND

To get help, click on the yellow Help button. It will give information relating to the currently selected activity or menu.

To get back to the main menu from the dance screen or a sub menu, or back to the sub menu from an activity, click on the orange Menu button.

To start or stop an activity, click on the green Go button. This button becomes a red Stop button if an activity is in progress.

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Listen: each of the menu and submenu choices, as well as many other items are named when the pointer is moved over them.

3/6- THE PUZZLES MENU

Colour Puzzle

Identify matching colours and line up the colour blocks to help Pingu
get his ball out of the tunnel.

Building blocks

A seagull flies above the bridge carrying a shape.
Fill the boxes on the bridge with the correct shapes.

Numbers puzzle

Pingu and Robby love playing with numbers. Join them and count with them !

Letters puzzle

Pingu paints a picture on his easel. Help Pingu spell the word that describes its picture.

Sound puzzle

Help Pingu sort the sounds that come out of its organ.

4/6- THE GAMES MENU

Fish Tennis

Move Pingu or Robby using the keyboard, so that they
can catch and return a fish from one side of the net to the other.

Ice Flow

It is Robby's birthday. Help Pingu to cross the river,
by jumping on and off moving ice blocks, to deliver its presents.

Music Time

Play music and sing along to a series of nursery rhythms.
Record and play your own compositions, change sound effects
and see your music written on a stave using musical notation.

Building blocks

Help Pingu to complete a series of puzzles using its building blocks.

Snow Maze

Direct Pingu through a maze collecting a series of objects on the way.
Use the collected objects to decorate a scene when you get out of the maze.

5/6- SCREEN SAVERS

Select the Pingu Screen Saver of your choice by clicking one one of the five TV screens: Fish chase, snow storm, Stunt Pingu, Snowball fight and Time for Pingu.

You can also install a Pingu screen saver directly from the Windows start menu. Just click:

Start ╪ Programs ╪ Kid's World ╪ Extra ╪ Pingu ╪ Screen savers

6/6- THE DANCE SCREEN

Make Pingu dance to the Pingu Rap!

Click on the picture buttons to make Pingu dance. Pingu will perform the actions, at intervals, in a random sequence if no picture buttons are pressed.