History VideoGame / LogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis

** Mudball Wall. Each color and design corresponds to a different point in the grid.
** Hotel Dimensia/Didimension Hotel is one with how the rooms are laid out.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Though [[DownplayedTrope not very obvious due to her apron]], Ulla Instantaneous, the innkeeper of Hotel Dimensia/Didimension Hotel, doesn't wear pants.

* NPCBoomVillage: Zoombiniville. Successfully navigating your Zoombinis rewards you with new citizens for this up-and-coming settlement. As the town gets bigger, you get more monuments to your achievement.

[[TheWikiRule Unsurprisingly]], the series has [[http://zoombinis.wikia.com/wiki/Zoombinis_Wiki a Wiki]].

* TookALevelInKindness: Arlo the pizza troll goes from being a selfish and wrathful obstacle in the first game, to a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold grumpy but loyal ally]] in ''Island Odyssey'' who is helping the Zoombinis restore their island.

* WakeUpCallBoss: Arlo the pizza troll. Whereas previous levels allowed the player to progress if they so much as got one Zoombini through, Pizza Pass ''requires'' the player to solve the puzzle in order to proceed. As such, younger players whom brute forced their way through The Allergic Cliffs and The Stone Cold Caves are likely to [[TotalPartyKill lose every remaining Zoombini to Arlo]]. This serves as a wake-up call for players to start paying attention in order to get anywhere in the game.

* WakeUpCallBoss: Arle the pizza troll. Whereas previous levels allowed the player to progress if they so much as got one Zoombini through, Pizza Pass ''requires'' the player to solve the puzzle in order to proceed. As such, younger players whom brute forced their way through The Allergic Cliffs and The Stone Cold Caves are likely to [[TotalPartyKill lose every remaining Zoombini to Arle]]. This serves as a wake-up call for players to start paying attention in order to get anywhere in the game.

* BlatantLies: Captain Cajun opens up his level with "Well, sit wherever you want to, I don't really care." [[SuperOCD He cares.]] Although it's true for the very first Zoombini that sits down.

* SuperOCD: Captain Cajun will not let you sit on his boat if you don't share a similar attribute with the people next to you.

* OrphanedSeries: Before the Kickstarter revived it, the ChainOfDeals that publisher Broderbund went through was not easy on the Zoombinis at all. See [[Trivia/LogicalJourneyOfTheZoombinis the trivia page]] for details.

* UpdatedRerelease: TERC came up with one on Kickstarter, but never bothered to fix the bugs afterward.

In 2015, a [[UpdatedRerelease remake]] of ''Logical Journey'', simply titled ''Zoombinis'', was successfully funded on [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zoombinisgame/zoombinis?ref=category Kickstarter]]. It was released on [=iOS=] and Android shortly afterward, and later on Windows and Mac (through Steam) and Kindle. There were multiple bugs in the game as released that make some of the puzzles freeze at times, and make others unsolvable, and there appears to be no support for fixing them.

* In ''Island Odyssey'', the Zoombinis discover the Bloats have since abandonded Zoombini Isle, leaving it an ecological wasteland. The Zoombinis send a team to survey the damage, who discover that the local Zerble population is on the verge of extinction. The Zoombinis set out to help the Zerbles and restore the ecology of Zoombini Isle.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Bloats came off as malignant business owners, which fit in with the game's description of Zoombinis and them with business-like manner. Two major examples being exploitation of Zoombinis as menial laborers and turning their island into wasteland ''Island Odyssey''

* EvilLaugh: One of the several snippets of narration that can play at the Shade Tree rest stop includes the narrator bursting into one after boasting that the most dangerous trials are yet to come. Crystal the Stone Guard has this as well when she rejects a Zoombini.

** If you get all the zoombinis to safety, at least one of the normally stuffy Stone Guards will be impressed and congratulate you.

* ToneShift: 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. The lack of new characters to interact with makes things feel even more lonely and that the zoombinis are truly in dangerous territory.

* AnAesop: Discrimination based on visual appearance is stupid, cruel, and cannot be the basis of a stable society.

* 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.

* {{Unwinnable}}: Depending on the exact makeup of the group, it might be mathematically impossible to get all sixteen Zoombinis onto Captain Cajun's Ferry if your party has too many Zoombinis with unique traits. Thankfully, the Ferry is the first puzzle on the Who's Bayou route from Shelter Rock and you can customize your party's makeup before setting off for the Ferry, so restarting won't take too much time. This situation is more likely at the higher difficulties due to having more neighbors for each seat to match traits with, though it's still possible even at the Not So Easy lowest level; getting that situation purely by random generated Zoombinis is so remote though [[UnwinnableByInsanity you'd have to be doing it on purpose to get into it]].

* ScaryStingingSwarm: An unusually benevolent example. Apparently, bees have no problem with Zoombinis, [[SynchronizedSwarming but they do have a problem with Fleens]]. Then again, the Fleens were the ones who disturbed them first.

** The Lion's Lair puzzle is this on Very, Very Hard, since you're only allowed five mistakes and '''you don't get any hints.'''

* UnexplainedRecovery: While the Zoombinis surviving failing most challenges to try again later are {{Hand Wave}}d in the manual by saying they're resourceful, Bubblewonder Abyss shows Zoombinis being sucked into a vortex and vaporized if you fail. And yet, they're right back at Shade Tree afterwards. There's also the EasterEgg if you [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential throw a Zoombini into the chasm in the Lion's Lair]]; they fall right back where they started, apparently from the ceiling.

* LuckBasedMission: The Fleens puzzle can easily become this [[NoFairCheating if you use twins]]. You may well be leaving some Zoombinis behind at Hotel Dimensia/Didimension Hotel if you place your first Zoombini in the wrong room on Very Hard.
** The Lion's Lair puzzle is this on Very, Very Hard, since you're only allowed five mistakes and '''you don't get a hint.'''

* In ''Island Odyssey'', the Zoombinis discover the Bloats have since abandonded Zoombini Isle, leaving it an ecological wasteland. The Zoombinis send a team to survey the damage, who discover that the local Zerble moth population is on the verge of extinction. The Zoombinis set out to help the Zerbles and restore the ecology of Zoombini Isle.

** The Lion's Lair puzzle is this on Very, Very Hard, since you're only allowed five mistakes and ''you don't get a hint.''

** The Lion's Lair puzzle is this on Very, Very Hard, since ''you don't get a hint.''

** The Lion's Lair puzzle is this on Very, Very Hard, since you **don't get a hint.**

* ScaryStingingSwarm: Apparently, bees have no problem with Zoombinis, [[SynchronizedSwarming but they do have a problem with Fleens]]. Then again, the Fleens were the ones who disturbed them first.