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* GameOfNim: Disc Appear, played with a [[ValleyGirl Beach Dudette]] and her collection of ([[StylisticSuck rightfully]]) unwanted compact discs. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment The loser apparently has to listen to them]].
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* GameOfNim: Disc Appear, [=DiscAppear=] is a Nim variant played with a [[ValleyGirl Beach Dudette]] and her collection of ([[StylisticSuck rightfully]]) unwanted compact discs. discs [[StylisticSuck with titles like "The Boston Pops Play the Beach Boys"]]. It's implied that whoever gets stuck with the last disc [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment The loser apparently has to listen to them]].it]], but fortunately the ''player'' is spared such a fate. What's not so obvious is that the hardest difficulty level [[MisereGame inverts the goal]] by changing the ingredients needed from this mini-game.
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* RobeAndWizardHat: Subverted. Dr. Quandary wears a purple robe and a matching ''[[NiceHat top hat]]''.
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* RobeAndWizardHat: Subverted. Dr. Quandary wears a purple robe and a matching ''[[NiceHat top hat]]''.''top hat''.
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* GracefulLoser: Dr. Quandary congratulates the player after they escape his island.
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* IncrediblyLamePun / HurricaneOfPunsHurricaneOfPuns: Nearly every character, location, and minigame name is a pun of some sort.
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Everythings Better With Monkeys has been turned into a disambiguation. Zero Context Examples and examples that don’t fit existing tropes will be removed.
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* SimonSaysMinigame: [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Ape the Ape]], of course! "Watch what I do, then you do it, too."
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* SimonSaysMinigame: [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Ape the Ape]], Ape, of course! "Watch what I do, then you do it, too."
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: William Apespeare, an orangutan.
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* InterfaceScrew: Tunnel Vision, true to its name, challenges you to solve a maze while only letting you see the path DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF YOU.
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* InterfaceScrew: Tunnel Vision, true to its name, challenges you to solve a maze while only letting you see the path DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF YOU. [[spoiler:Solving one of the tangram puzzles nets you a useful candle that outlines the maze.]]
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* InterfaceScrew: Tunnel Vision. Frickin' Tunnel Vision.
* JerkAss: Dr. Quandary. What kind of jerk does that to a kid, and then writes them a letter mocking them about it?
* JerkAss: Dr. Quandary. What kind of jerk does that to a kid, and then writes them a letter mocking them about it?
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* InterfaceScrew: Tunnel Vision. Frickin' Tunnel Vision.
Vision, true to its name, challenges you to solve a maze while only letting you see the path DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF YOU.
* JerkAss: Dr.Quandary. What kind of jerk does that to a kid, Quandary steals your soul, and then writes them you a letter mocking them you about it?it.
* JerkAss: Dr.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At the carnival, clicking the Ferris Wheel cars can get you the comment "[[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces Harder! HARDER!]]", with the car shaking appropriately.
** The doll O.D. Nary doesn't seem to be wearing pants.
** The doll O.D. Nary doesn't seem to be wearing pants.
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the carnival, clicking future, please check the Ferris Wheel cars can get you trope page to make sure your example fits the comment "[[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces Harder! HARDER!]]", with the car shaking appropriately.
** The doll O.D. Nary doesn't seem to be wearing pants.current definition.
** The doll O.D. Nary doesn't seem to be wearing pants.
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** "[[Film/DirtyHarry Go ahead. Make my door.]]"
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** Challenging the door-building puzzle, [[Series/LetsMakeADeal Let's Make a Door]] leads Quandary to quip "[[Film/DirtyHarry Go ahead. Make my door.]]"
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** The Acid Test game takes place in the [[Music/JerryLeeLewis Great Hall of Fire.]]"
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** The Acid Test game takes place in the [[Music/JerryLeeLewis Great Hall of Fire.]]"]]
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''The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary'' is a PuzzleGame produced in 1993 by MECC, the same brains behind ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', ''OdellDownUnder'', and the ''VideoGame/NumberMunchers'' series.
The player character attends a carnival, plays a shooting game hosted by the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Quintessential Quizmaster]] Dr. Quandary, and wins a "[[InsistentTerminology Lifelike Action Figure]]". But upon claiming their prize, the player's soul is transferred into the doll, which is whisked away to Dr. Quandary's private island. The only way to escape is to solve Dr. Quandary's quandaries and find the ingredients for his [[ScrewballSerum Fixer Elixer]]!
The player character attends a carnival, plays a shooting game hosted by the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Quintessential Quizmaster]] Dr. Quandary, and wins a "[[InsistentTerminology Lifelike Action Figure]]". But upon claiming their prize, the player's soul is transferred into the doll, which is whisked away to Dr. Quandary's private island. The only way to escape is to solve Dr. Quandary's quandaries and find the ingredients for his [[ScrewballSerum Fixer Elixer]]!
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''The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary'' is a PuzzleGame produced in 1993 by MECC, the same brains behind ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', ''OdellDownUnder'', ''VideoGame/OdellDownUnder'', and the ''VideoGame/NumberMunchers'' series.
The player character attends a carnival, plays a shooting game hosted by the[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal [[AlliterativeTitle Quintessential Quizmaster]] Dr. Quandary, and wins a "[[InsistentTerminology Lifelike Action Figure]]". But upon claiming their prize, the player's soul is transferred into the doll, which is whisked away to Dr. Quandary's private island. The only way to escape is to solve Dr. Quandary's quandaries and find the ingredients for his [[ScrewballSerum Fixer Elixer]]!
The player character attends a carnival, plays a shooting game hosted by the
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* AWinnerIsYou: All you get for all your hard work is a generic "Congratulations!" screen. There aren't even any end credits; you just get dumped unceremoniously back to the carnival, with your only option being to start all over again.
* CrappyCarnival: From the ripoff "fortune teller" to the Ferris wheel that's clearly about to fall apart any day now to [[BreadEggsMilkSquick the midway game that sucks your soul into a doll and strands you on an island if you win]], the carnival you start the game at ''more'' than qualifies.
* CrappyCarnival: From the ripoff "fortune teller" to the Ferris wheel that's clearly about to fall apart any day now to [[BreadEggsMilkSquick the midway game that sucks your soul into a doll and strands you on an island if you win]], the carnival you start the game at ''more'' than qualifies.
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* KarmaHoudini: Dr. Quandary never gets punished for stealing a kid's soul and putting it in a doll.
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''The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary'' is an a PuzzleGame produced in 1993 by MECC, the same brains behind ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', ''OdellDownUnder'', and the ''VideoGame/NumberMunchers'' series.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: William Apespeare
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: William ApespeareApespeare, an orangutan.
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* PuzzleGame
* RhymesOnADime: William Apespeare.
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PuzzleGame: The game is a series of various kinds of puzzles - a memorization game, a math game, a make-shapes-out-of-triangles game, a maze, etc... - strung together by the plot and the item-collection.
* RhymesOnADime: WilliamApespeare.Apespeare's dialogue, and occasionally Dr. Quandry's.
* RhymesOnADime: William
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* SolveTheSoupCans
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''The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary'' is an EdutainmentGame PuzzleGame produced in 1993 by MECC, the same brains behind ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', ''OdellDownUnder'', and the ''VideoGame/NumberMunchers'' series.
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* ShoutOut: To the likes of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, LouisArmstrong, and... Sir Edmund Hillary?
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* ShoutOut: To the likes of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, LouisArmstrong, Music/LouisArmstrong, and... Sir Edmund Hillary?
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''The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary'' is an EdutainmentGame produced in 1993 by MECC, the same brains behind ''VideoGame/TheOregonTrail'', ''OdellDownUnder'', and the ''VideoGame/NumberMunchers'' series.
The player character attends a carnival, plays a shooting game hosted by the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Quintessential Quizmaster]] Dr. Quandary, and wins a "[[InsistentTerminology Lifelike Action Figure]]". But upon claiming their prize, the player's soul is transferred into the doll, which is whisked away to Dr. Quandary's private island. The only way to escape is to solve Dr. Quandary's quandaries and find the ingredients for his [[ScrewballSerum Fixer Elixer]]!
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!!''The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary'' contains examples of:
* DeadpanSnarker: The player character doesn't start speaking until they wake up as the doll. Once they do, they're full of sass and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]].
* EasyModeMockery: Once you win the game as B. Ginner, Dr. Quandary challenges you to come back and try again as O. D. Nary or D. Feecult, and even draws attention to the doll's PunnyName.
* ElmerFuddSyndrome: The Tax Cowwector.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: William Apespeare
* EvilLaugh: Dr. Quandary cracks two: once when you choose your Lifelike Action Figure after Troggle Shoot, and once in his letter to the player (in writing).
* GameOfNim: Disc Appear, played with a [[ValleyGirl Beach Dudette]] and her collection of ([[StylisticSuck rightfully]]) unwanted compact discs. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment The loser apparently has to listen to them]].
* GenreShift: Target-hitting minigames abound, as well as the Acid Test, which is basically a BulletHell.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At the carnival, clicking the Ferris Wheel cars can get you the comment "[[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces Harder! HARDER!]]", with the car shaking appropriately.
** The doll O.D. Nary doesn't seem to be wearing pants.
* GuideDangIt: The objectives of Tad-Pult are not indicated, nor is the correct post for the [[TowersOfHanoi Tire Tower]] puzzle. Fortunately, there is a Help! option in the menu that will tell you these things.
** Tax Factor can be a case of "Math Class Dang It", as it requires a head for numbers and has been known to stop adult players in their tracks, even on the easier difficulties.
* HitboxDissonance: Makes all the target-hitting mini-games and Acid Test really annoying.
* IncrediblyLamePun / HurricaneOfPuns
* InsistentTerminology: Used and then subverted. Dr. Quandary initially insists on calling the dolls "Lifelike Action Figures". Once you're on the island, he makes fun of you being stuck inside the DOLL.
* InterfaceScrew: Tunnel Vision. Frickin' Tunnel Vision.
* JerkAss: Dr. Quandary. What kind of jerk does that to a kid, and then writes them a letter mocking them about it?
* LargeHam: The only explanation for Quandary writing an EvilLaugh into his letter for the player character.
* MeaningfulName / PunnyName: Choosing a Lifelike Action Figure to play as sets the difficulty for the rest of the game. The names of the dolls reflect this: B. Ginner, O. D. Nary, and D. Feecult.
* MediumAwareness: The player character suggests using the Num Lock key (of the computer) to open the Num Lock holding Sir Pillory.
* MythologyGag: [[VideoGame/NumberMunchers Troggle Shoot]] at the beginning of the game.
* ParentalBonus: It seems unlikely that some of the references would have been understood by the target audience.
* PuzzleGame
* RhymesOnADime: William Apespeare.
* RobeAndWizardHat: Subverted. Dr. Quandary wears a purple robe and a matching ''[[NiceHat top hat]]''.
* ShoutOut: To the likes of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, LouisArmstrong, and... Sir Edmund Hillary?
** "[[Film/DirtyHarry Go ahead. Make my door.]]"
* SimonSaysMinigame: [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Ape the Ape]], of course! "Watch what I do, then you do it, too."
* SolveTheSoupCans
* TowersOfHanoi: The Tire Tower puzzle in a junkyard. The completed tower enables the doll to reach a can of motor oil for the Fixer Elixer.
* TransformationTrauma: The player character's initial reaction to waking up as the doll. Followed by [[DeadpanSnarker snark]].
The player character attends a carnival, plays a shooting game hosted by the [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Quintessential Quizmaster]] Dr. Quandary, and wins a "[[InsistentTerminology Lifelike Action Figure]]". But upon claiming their prize, the player's soul is transferred into the doll, which is whisked away to Dr. Quandary's private island. The only way to escape is to solve Dr. Quandary's quandaries and find the ingredients for his [[ScrewballSerum Fixer Elixer]]!
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!!''The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary'' contains examples of:
* DeadpanSnarker: The player character doesn't start speaking until they wake up as the doll. Once they do, they're full of sass and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]].
* EasyModeMockery: Once you win the game as B. Ginner, Dr. Quandary challenges you to come back and try again as O. D. Nary or D. Feecult, and even draws attention to the doll's PunnyName.
* ElmerFuddSyndrome: The Tax Cowwector.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: William Apespeare
* EvilLaugh: Dr. Quandary cracks two: once when you choose your Lifelike Action Figure after Troggle Shoot, and once in his letter to the player (in writing).
* GameOfNim: Disc Appear, played with a [[ValleyGirl Beach Dudette]] and her collection of ([[StylisticSuck rightfully]]) unwanted compact discs. [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment The loser apparently has to listen to them]].
* GenreShift: Target-hitting minigames abound, as well as the Acid Test, which is basically a BulletHell.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At the carnival, clicking the Ferris Wheel cars can get you the comment "[[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces Harder! HARDER!]]", with the car shaking appropriately.
** The doll O.D. Nary doesn't seem to be wearing pants.
* GuideDangIt: The objectives of Tad-Pult are not indicated, nor is the correct post for the [[TowersOfHanoi Tire Tower]] puzzle. Fortunately, there is a Help! option in the menu that will tell you these things.
** Tax Factor can be a case of "Math Class Dang It", as it requires a head for numbers and has been known to stop adult players in their tracks, even on the easier difficulties.
* HitboxDissonance: Makes all the target-hitting mini-games and Acid Test really annoying.
* IncrediblyLamePun / HurricaneOfPuns
* InsistentTerminology: Used and then subverted. Dr. Quandary initially insists on calling the dolls "Lifelike Action Figures". Once you're on the island, he makes fun of you being stuck inside the DOLL.
* InterfaceScrew: Tunnel Vision. Frickin' Tunnel Vision.
* JerkAss: Dr. Quandary. What kind of jerk does that to a kid, and then writes them a letter mocking them about it?
* LargeHam: The only explanation for Quandary writing an EvilLaugh into his letter for the player character.
* MeaningfulName / PunnyName: Choosing a Lifelike Action Figure to play as sets the difficulty for the rest of the game. The names of the dolls reflect this: B. Ginner, O. D. Nary, and D. Feecult.
* MediumAwareness: The player character suggests using the Num Lock key (of the computer) to open the Num Lock holding Sir Pillory.
* MythologyGag: [[VideoGame/NumberMunchers Troggle Shoot]] at the beginning of the game.
* ParentalBonus: It seems unlikely that some of the references would have been understood by the target audience.
* PuzzleGame
* RhymesOnADime: William Apespeare.
* RobeAndWizardHat: Subverted. Dr. Quandary wears a purple robe and a matching ''[[NiceHat top hat]]''.
* ShoutOut: To the likes of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, LouisArmstrong, and... Sir Edmund Hillary?
** "[[Film/DirtyHarry Go ahead. Make my door.]]"
* SimonSaysMinigame: [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Ape the Ape]], of course! "Watch what I do, then you do it, too."
* SolveTheSoupCans
* TowersOfHanoi: The Tire Tower puzzle in a junkyard. The completed tower enables the doll to reach a can of motor oil for the Fixer Elixer.
* TransformationTrauma: The player character's initial reaction to waking up as the doll. Followed by [[DeadpanSnarker snark]].
