Strange New Worlds

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How would you like to live in a world where everything is two dimensional? There is a world that my children and I like to visit. Everyone there has a big head, a small body, can jump really high and never gets hurt. With a name like Quick Runner, Funny Brain, Silver Noodle or Bendy Bubbles, we solve mysteries, fight crime, and find hidden treasures.  
We can travel through time to the old west, ancient Greece or the middle ages. We can explore space, visit the moon or get shrunk to the size of a mouse. In this world, we can talk to ghosts, fight zombies, and explore dreams, while using cool tools like jet packs, time stopping stop watches, a grappling bow tie or a chameleon suit that makes us almost invisible. We explore volcanoes, jungles, factories and haunted houses. We can fight robots, monsters, ninjas or even super villains. We can participate in Olympic games, or be on a reality TV show. We can film a movie or visit a giant. We occasionally even explore sewers, dungeons and jail cells. We can swing from vines, fly helicopters, hop icy boulders, or sail pirate infested waters. We can talk to historical figures like President Cleveland, the oracle of Delphi, or Thomas Edison. 
This world is full of real life puzzles, like how to get a fox, a chicken and a bag of chicken feed across a chasm in a small basket that can only hold one of them at a time without any of them getting eaten. (Fox eats chicken, chicken eats feed.)


This is the world of Poptropica! This exciting land currently contains 33 islands, with new ones emerging every few months. Each island has a different atmosphere, a different quest, with new puzzles to solve, new people to meet, new trials to be overcome. Some are more difficult than others. But no matter where you are, you can be assured that adventure is just around the corner.
 
(I know this sounds like an advertisement... I'm sorry. But it is fun, and it is part of my family's life. John has gotten so good that he can complete some of the island challenges in as little as ten minutes. If you would like to see what I'm talking about, visit Poptropica.com.)

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  1. AprilJune 25, 2013 at 4:20 PM

    "How would you like to live in a world where everything is two dimensional?"
    Have you by any chance read "Flatland?"

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