Mind Reading is an activity in JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective. It is at The Sabotaged Site where the Henchmen have octopi on their heads.
Description[]
Martin gives Jo special glasses that are able to read the henchmen's thoughts. Jo, however, isn't wearing a telepathic octopus on her head-- so the messages are scrambled. She needs to put the right words into their proper places.
Choices for words pop up one at a time, each being thought up by a different henchman. The player must choose the correct word that not only matches the part of speech given, but also makes sense given the context of the rest of the sentence.
Once all the blanks on screen are filled, one of the octopi pulls on a henchman's head to bring up a new screen of text, continuing the conversation. When every blank is filled, Jo notes down all the information she learns with regards to accessing the bomb.
Help file description[]
Help file
What could these thugs possibly be thinking? My guess is, it's not much. Those octopi on their heads? That's how Dr. X controls them. I've just got to figure out (somehow) what's going on inside their tiny little brains. Hey, those sunglasses, remember? They can help me make sense of these guys' thoughts. Now we've just got to place the words in the right places.
- Watch the words as they pop up. When the right word appears, click on it to fill the first blank space.
- Repeat until each blank space has been filled with a word of the correct part of speech.
- Choose carefully, though. Too many wrong answers may hold up your case.
- After all blanks have been filled, read the sentence to find out what object is missing.
- To help you remember the clue, I will write it in the Journal.
Trivia[]
- If the user plays this activity after completing the game (via the progress report screen,) the henchmen's thoughts will be about physics-related concepts, such as mass and force.
- This activity has a strong resemblance in gameplay to the Cemetery activity in JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island.
- The big differences are a lack of time limit, and the need for the sentences to make contextual sense. (E.g., if asked for a noun in 4th grade, any noun option will do. In 5th grade, the player may be given multiple noun options but only the noun that makes sense in the sentence the blank is in will be accepted.)