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[[File:wehikul_1287.png|frame|The series logo. [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|We know what you're thinking.]]]]
If you're looking for the classic novel by H. G. Wells, see ''[[The Time Machine]]''.
 
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=== The series as a whole displays examples of: ===
* [[Can't Take Anything Withwith You]]: Leaving items from a future epoch behind is one of the things forbidden by the "time travel rules".
* [[Changed My Jumper]]: The protagonist is always careful to take clothes appropriate for his destination; when he time-travels into different eras entirely, some people may casually comment on his weird clothes.
* [[Choose Your Own Adventure]]
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** The Polish cover for 'Mystery of the Atlantis'' deserves a special mention: it claims that the Olympic games featured in the book are the ''first'' Olympic games, something that isn't mentioned in the book... [[You Fail History Forever|and this claim on the cover is accompanied by a huge headline stating "it's the year 400 BC", while Olympic games actually started at least two centuries earlier!]]
* [[Edutainment Show]]
* [[Groundhog Day Loop]]: Supposedly, if you break the time travel rules, you risk being trapped in one of these. In practice, an easier way to end up in one is to [[Unwinnable Byby Design|take the wrong inventory item at the beginning]].
** Since bad choices make you re-read pages you've read already, the protagonist technically falls into a few short loops (with two or three iterations, tops) on his every adventure. (Since some of them involve arduous weeks- or even months-long trips, it's probably not pleasant...)
* [[Hint System]]
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* [[Time Travel]]
* [[Time Travelers Are Spies]]: Commonly happens to you.
* [[Unwinnable Byby Design]]: Some books offer you a few items in the beginning, and you have to choose one to take. Usually, choosing the wrong one will get you [[Groundhog Day Loop|stuck]] halfway through.
* [[What Year Is This?]]: Not only that, but the protagonist also tends to be surprisingly oblivious about pretty much everything about the era where he's going. Rarely does this get him anything worse than a weird look.
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The protagonist must take a picture of an Archaeopterix, the first bird. Most of the book consists of figuring out ''where'' and ''when'' the Archaeopterix lived, by hopping back and forwards through the Mesozoic and piecing together information.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: You get to witness the Cretaceous mass extinction, which is a class 4.
* [[Big Creepy -Crawlies]]: You meet some impressively large dragonflies in the Triassic period.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]]
* [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]]: especially 30-feet Cretaceous crocodiles.
== Sword of the Samurai (1984) ==
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== Civil War Secret Agent (1984) ==
== The Rings of Saturn (1985) ==
An [[Oddball in Thethe Series]], as it sends the protagonist to [[The Future]]. This frees the writer from the shackles of historical accuracy, making the book essentially a [[Troperiffic]] showcase of pretty much every single [[Science Fiction]] trope in the book.
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Used to escape from the nasty [[Space Pirates]].
* [[Cyborg|Cyborgs]]
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== Quest for the Cities of Gold (1987) ==
The protagonist heads to America in the sixteenth century in order to investigate the rumors of the supposed "cities of gold" searched for by the conquistadors.
* [[Go Look At the Distraction]]: Used to escape an Aztec guard to avoid fate of a [[Human Sacrifice]]. [[Unwinnable Byby Design|Not that it will help you if you've ended up in that paragraph.]]
* [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]]
== Scotland Yard Detective (1987) ==
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