Customer Reviews
Terrific Product 
2008-06-09
When I first received the product, I thought it was one that I had already purchased for my grandsons. However, when they began to play it, it was quickly apparent that while it used some of the same games as in other "I Spy" games, it was a totally revamped set of games to play with them. The boys (ages 6 and 3) love it! It is just as challenging as the originals were and gives them a good challenge all over again. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the "I Spy" series of games. Children have to use memory, as well as logic, to solve them and it increases vocabulary beautifully.
Top drawer medley of I Spy picture puzzles 2008-04-01
I am so glad that I bought this computer game for my kids before reading the reviews on this site!
Look, we don't have a lot of computer games and we had just recently discovered the I Spy books about 1 year ago. We loved them so much that I do believe we'd read nearly all of them before I saw this game for sale. This excellent little collection of picture puzzles is not repeated from the books, so to us they're all new. It was like a breath of fresh air from a parent's point of view; games without that constant, annoying background music, the kids can play them quietly and actually learn something. The boys love it even more than I; they have been begging to play I Spy Mystery every day after their homework is done for the past week since they got it.
The game is simple. You select one of 13 folders, each is its own mini mystery with a theme (Mystery Meal, Locked Gate, Skeleton Key, etc). You have 3-5 "pictures" in each folder to find the hidden objects, and when you have solved all of the pictures, you are given clues to solve the final mystery. this involves a sharp eye, but also logic, good recall for details, and problem solving skills. Kids will also learn to employ multiple meanings for a word in their search, such as "bat".
I Spy Mystery, like all the books, is a fun and low pressure way to build the brain. I get caught up in it with them from time to time -- I've even added my name to the player file so I don't mess up their scores when I sneak a round. And now that we are intrigued by some of the folders, we will make an effort to find the other I Spy games. Thank God for Scholastic!
-Andrea, aka Merribelle
If I were a Caveman... 
2008-01-10
I purchased several of the I Spy series software for my daughter. We have both Mac and PCs in our household and the software will not work on Mac 10.4 or above. It will gladly use Mac 9, but one would have to be a caveman to be using that version.
As for Windows, it took us several attempts and a few patches to get the software to run on a 64bit system...
I Spy Mystery 2007-08-30
If you like the I Spy games/books, you will love this one. It is a review of the other games with many of the same settings. Great potential for language growth and logic skills.
Disappointed in I Spy Mystery 
2007-05-17
My afterschool kids and I all love the I SPY computer games but were disappointed in I SPY MYSTERY because it is made up of puzzles that are in all of the other I SPY games. There was nothing new. Also, the game cost $19.99 plus shipping and I was disappointed to see it the following week in Target for $9.99. The overall layout of the game as far as them being separated into "files" was fun but we just wish the puzzles had been new.
I Spy a Computer Game! 2007-04-11
Topics Entertainment I Spy Mystery WIN/MAC. Discover a new way to play I SPY with 13 elusive mysteries that need your sleuth-finding skills. Choose a case file, and then earn mystery clues by solving I SPY riddles and searching for carefully concealed objects. Use your problem solving skills to follow the clues to solve the case of the Locked Gate, Midnight Mouse, Knight Fall and many more clever mysteries!
If you own other I Spy Games skip this one 
2007-02-27
I just got this I Spy Game and it's the same puzzles and same pictures as one of the other I spy games. If you pay the money, they should give you a completely new game! It's a rip off!
I Spy Mystery Fun 2007-02-07
I bought this game for my 5 1/2 yr old daughter and myself to play together. We both enjoyed it a lot. I like the fact that it can read and re-read outloud the clues names as my daughter is just learning to read. I can leave her playing while I work on dinner and I don't hear "Mommy, I need you."
Why so much of the same? 2007-01-16
This game is being enjoyed by our son, mainly because he just likes I Spy in general. Unfortunately the I Spy folks created this game "on the cheap" by using the same pages from their previous I Spy computer games. The riddles are new of course, but the pages are so familiar that it almost seems as if the player has done this before. Still fun of course, but I recommend that Scholasitc put a little more effort into being creative and spend a little more money on new pages next time around.
I Spy Mystery 
2007-01-15
Great game! My kid loved it! She didn't want to leave the computer until she found them all!
