History VideoGame / LogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis

** At least, so long as you didn't [[spoiler:make all or most of your Zoombini party out of sets of twins]], which takes it past TrialAndErrorGameplay and into LuckBasedMission territory.

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: Half of the minigames require various amounts of trial and error in order for you to collect enough information to solve the puzzle. One of them ([[spoiler:specifically, Fleens!]]) appears to be a member of this contingent, but usually can actually be figured out before sending any Zoombinis if you observe carefully enough.

* MixAndMatchCritter: The Zoombinis are created by combining different hairstyles, eye shapes, nose colors, and feet types.

The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis is the first and most well-known in a series of [[EdutainmentGame Edutainment Games]]. The Zoombinis, an idyllic race of cute, blue-skinned creatures live in peace on Zoombini Isle, until a race called the Bloats comes in and offers to improve their trade routes and infrastructure. But the Bloats are really just looking for an excuse to gain access to the resources of the island. The Zoombinis find themselves enslaved, and so they set out to find a new homeland across the sea.

* GiantEnemyCrab: Harder difficulties of the Titanic Tattooed Toads level have these coming out of the water to block the way.

* CastOfSnowflakes: Half the Zoombinis are completely different in appearance. The other half are twins of the first half.

* ThereAreNoTents: Hotel Dimensia is an hotel in the wilderness run by the squirrel Ulla Instantaneous. It's a safe place for the Zoombinis to stay in for the night. ''Getting into the hotel'', however, is a puzzle in itself.

* EvilCounterpart: The Fleens may well be this to the Zoombinis. [[spoiler: In "Not So Easy" and "Very Hard", each trait they have even directly corresponds to a Zoombini trait. In the other two difficulties, their traits correspond to another Zoombini trait.]]

* EvilCounterpart: The Fleens may well be this to the Zoombinis. In "Not So Easy" and "Very Very Hard", each trait they have even directly corresponds to a Zoombini trait.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: Arno and the other Pizza Trolls have certain toppings that they hate.

* HundredPercentCompletion: [[CosmeticAward A new monument is built in Zoombiniville]] the first time the player completes a path on a new difficulty setting without losing any Zoombinis. As noted below, some paths are harder than others.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Zoombinis are blue and the Fleens are green, though neither of them are particularly humanoid.
* AntiPoopSocking: One of the narrator's lines in Zoombiniville reassures the player that they've done enough for now and they should go get some fresh air.

* GoshHornet: Apparently, bees have no problem with Zoombinis. [[SynchronizedSwarming They do have a problem with Fleens.]] Then again, the Fleens are the ones who disturbed them first.
* GridPuzzle: Mudball Wall. Each colour and design corresponds to a different point in the grid.
* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: From "Not So Easy" to "Very, Very Hard".
* IdleAnimation
* LargeHam: The narrator, and Arno the pizza troll.
* TheMigration: the Zoombinis flee Bloat-controlled Zoombini Isle and seek a new place to settle.
* MixAndMatchCritter: The Zoombinis are created by combining different hairstyles, eye shapes, nose colors, and feet types.
* TheQuincyPunk: The Fleens are, for the most part, a bunch of little green WaddlingHead Quincy Punks.
* RockMonster: The Stone Guardians.
* SolveTheSoupCans: The game is practically built on soup cans. Some of them make more sense in the context of the story than others, but they're all fairly outlandish. Slips into AlphabetSoupCans at some points.
* SpeakingSimlish: The {{NPC}}s speak English, but the Zoombinis communicate in nonsensical chatter.

* ToneShift: With possibly a hint of CerebusSyndrome. The first leg of the journey is bright and silly. However, once the player passes Shade Tree, things get substantially darker (in terms of lighting and content) and more serious.
* TrialAndErrorGameplay: Half of the minigames require various amounts of trial and error in order for you to collect enough information to solve the puzzle. One of them ([[spoiler:specifically, Fleens!]]) appears to be a member of this contingent, but usually can actually be figured out before sending any Zoombinis if you observe carefully enough.
* WaddlingHead: The Zoombinis have no arms, and move stuff around by carrying it on their heads or pushing it with their heads. One of the stone guardians calls them "little pebbles". They do, however, have legs connecting their feet to their bodies, at least when they have actual feet in the first place.

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: Arno, Willoaen and Shyler are trolls, but they resemble [[WhenTreesAttack walking trees without leaves]]. They also love pizza and sundae, but are ''''extremely'''' fussy about their toppings.

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: Arno, Willoaen and Shyler are trolls, but they resemble [[WhenTreesAttack walking trees without leaves]].

* GridPuzzle: Mudball Wall.

* BeefGate: The second half of the game ramps up the difficulty of the puzzles; the Fleens minigame specifically seems to exist to punish players who "cheated" some of the earlier games by creating twins, as you have to find the three Fleens that will trigger the GoshHornet swarm.

* GoshHornet: Apparently, bees have no problem with Zoombinis. [[SynchronizedSwarming They do have a problem with Fleens.]]

* EvilCounterpart: The Fleens may well be this to the Zoombinis.

* SolveTheSoupCans: The game is practically built on soup cans. Some of them make more sense in the context of the story than others, but they're all fairly outlandish.

* BeefGate / OnlyTheSmartMayPass: The second half of the game ramps up the difficulty of the puzzles; the Fleens minigame specifically seems to exist to punish players who "cheated" some of the earlier games by creating twins, as you have to find the three Fleens that will trigger the GoshHornet swarm.

* LoveItOrHateIt: This is the general feel you get from the pizza trolls, once there's more than one of them.