Toad Well

The Toad Well is one of the activities in JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island.

Premise
There's a bug infestation going on at the well, and some of them are poisonous! Fortunately, there's a hungry toad here that likes to eat bugs, but he doesn't have very good eyesight. So the player must help the toad eat the right bugs by answering math questions. Three rounds are required to win.

Description
The player controls a toad at the top of a well. Number-shaped bugs fly above the well, and math equations appear at the bottom of the well. The player must make the toad eat the bugs that correctly complete the equations. The arrow keys are used to move the toad around, and the spacebar is used to make the toad stick out its tongue and catch bugs. The number of lives that the toad has is displayed at the top left corner of the screen. If the player chooses a bug that yields an incorrect answer, the toad will fall in the well and lose one of its lives.

In addition to the numbered bugs, small purple bugs fly around the well as well. These bugs must be eaten before they touch the wall of the well, or else the toad will fall in. The toad must consume a certain number of bugs to complete a round. The activity is completed after the player completes three rounds.

Difficulty level differences

 * Level 1 requires solving addition and subtraction.
 * Level 2 requires solving multiplication and division.
 * Levels 3 to 6 require solving all four types of basic math.
 * The equations become more complex as the levels get higher.

Digital manual description
Well, well, well. What have we here? Oh, it's a well. With a very hungry toad on the outside. And some very tasty bugs crawling up the inside. What's that down at the bottom of the well? It's a math problem, of course! To win the game, answer the math questions by helping the frog eat the right "numbered" bug. Got it? Good!


 * To move the frog, press the arrow keys.
 * To eat a bug, move the frog to the edge of the well above the number and press the Space bar. Luckily, the frog has a l-o-n-g tongue.
 * Those little purple bugs? Better eat 'em before they reach the edge of the well or your toad will be knocked in!
 * You have three frog lives. To find out how many you have left, look for the frogs on the top left corner of the screen.