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'''''The ClueFinders''''' is a series of [[Edutainment Game
The main characters are:
* Joni Savage: [[The Hero]]. Specifically, a [[Fiery Redhead|Fiery]] [[Redheaded Hero]] and a [[Fearless Fool]], although the latter died down when [[Chickification]] set in.
* Santiago Rivera: [[The Lancer]], [[Mr. Fixit]] and a [[Weekend Inventor]].
* Owen Lam: [[The McCoy]] [[Surfer Dude]], who talks in a [[Totally Radical]] way.
* Leslie Clark: [[The Smart Guy|The Smart Girl]] given to [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. Owen's [[Foil]]. They seem to be in the early stages of [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]], but, of course, we'll [[
* LapTrap: [[Robot Buddy]], [[Deadpan Snarker]] and [[Cowardly Lion]]. Has the form of a floating laptop.
* Socrates: [[Team Pet]], who only appears with any prominence in the fourth grade game. Amazingly, both an example of [[Remember the New Guy?]] and [[Brother Chuck]].
The games are aimed at kids aged 8 to 12, with specific games for third-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders (having been a follow-up to ''[[Reader Rabbit]]'', another Learning Company series, which is aimed at kids aged up to 7). In addition, there are four other games devoted to mathematics, language arts, logic and miscellaneous subjects.
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* [[Adaptational Weakling]]: ''The ClueFinders'' generally has their founder and leader Joni as the tough one. She has a habit of being a [[Fearless Fool]] that rushes into situations without thinking, and doing most of the physical challenges. In the sixth grade game, Joni enforces this while offering herself as a hostage for the [[Anti-Villain]] plant queen in the third act. Joni admits that normally she would be the one going out to solve the problem, but as leader it's her responsibility to protect her friends, and she trusts them to carry out the task of {{spoiler|cleaning the water supply affecting the plant people}}. She takes {{spoiler|slowly being turned into a plant fairly well, ordering the team to not worry about her and keep finding the pesticide sources}}.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Nobody can solve the mysteries except for a gang of children.
** In 4th Grade Adventures, adults were befuddled by problems that the
* [[All Myths Are True]]: [[Scooby-Doo Hoax|Subverted]] twice, applied once, and [[Real After All|double subverted]] in the same two games.▼
* [[Aliens Speaking English]]: Several times over, both with aliens proper and with other things. Partially averted in 5th grade--{{spoiler|the aliens use [[Black Speech]], the written form of which is a [[Cipher Language]], but their computer speaks and understands English perfectly well.}}
▲* [[All Myths Are True]]: [[Scooby-Doo Hoax|Subverted]] twice, applied once, and [[Real After All|double subverted]] in the same two games.
* [[Alphabet Soup Cans]]
* [[And I Must Scream]]: {{spoiler|Malicia. She deserved it.}}
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* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In ''Search & Solve Adventures'', a villain forces [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] to work as her slaves, keeping them in line by [[Denied Food as Punishment|denying them new batteries]].
** In Reading, the kids are told to {{spoiler|throw a magical amulet into a volcano, [[The Lord of the Rings|for only then could it be destroyed.]]}}
** LapTrap is a shiny yellow piece of technology whose trademark characteristic is constant worry. [[Star Wars|C-3PO]], anyone?
* [[The Drag Along]]: LapTrap.
* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: {{spoiler|The fourth game's villain learns this the hard way.}}
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Parodied/subverted:
{{quote|"I swallowed my mint."}}
* [[Fearless Fool]]: Joni in the earlier games, played as a [[Running Gag]].
* [[Fetch Quest]]
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* [[Give Me Your Inventory Item]]
* [[God's Hands Are Tied]]: Of all the series to parody this . . . grade 4 introduces Egyptian gods towards the end, who provide the main characters with magical boons to help them [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|defeat Set]]. Said gods would fight him themselves, but the passage leading to him is marked with a sign: "You must be under this height to defeat the forces of Chaos." (And the height is forty feet, no less!)
* [[Hijacked by Jesus]]: The 4th grade setting, though not as badly as in some other series. It helps that Set was fairly evil even in the old myths.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: you can carry anything in "the backpack" -- including bridge planks in the 6th grade game.
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* [[Take Your Time]]: A form of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]] here; obviously you wouldn't want to get put under a time limit when you're trying to do Long division!
* [[Talking Animal]]: Several.
* [[That's No Moon]]: 5th grade's island is a bit unusual, to say the least. {{spoiler|It's a spaceship, and the aliens have been [[To Serve Man|harvesting]] human [[No Brainer|brains.]]}}
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: The vending machine in ''Search and Solve'' and the Gates in ''Reading''. This is actually the entire point; it's to test out your hypothesis. This doesn't stop it from being frustrating for people of ''any'' age.
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