When comparing Zoombinis vs FlightGear, the Slant community recommends FlightGear for most people. In the question“What are the best educational games on PC?” FlightGear is ranked 9th while Zoombinis is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose FlightGear is:
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
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Pros
Pro Teaches logic in an approachable fashion
Each puzzle is a logic exercise, most utilizes the difference in appearances of the zoombinis (in a "guess who" fashion). Others are more varied, like process of elimination (guess what the gatekeepers want on their pizza), state machines (get the zoombinis through the active maze), etc. Most puzzles are very intuitive, yet all require a logic based approach to succeed.
Pro Various logic puzzles
Pro Great for teaching logic to young children
Although parental guidance is better than kids just "punching their way out of a paper bag", the puzzles are fun and engaging, and simple to explain. This creates a perfect environment to teach children deductive reasoning.
Pro Worldwide scenery
FlightGear has scenery that contains environments to fly in from the whole globe.
Pro Free and Open Source
All code written for FlightGear is opensource and available for anyone to use.
Pro Crash animations in some aircrafts
Pro It has world-wide multiplayer
Pro Live cockpit
Pro A lot of aircrafts to add
Pro It has amazing graphics
Pro You can almost recreate real incidents
Pro No bugs
Cons
Con Might become too difficult for very young children
Although the puzzles have simple solutions at the beginning, each round/playthrough, the difficulty increases. The difficulty increases the farther you progress. Becomes quite challenging after a while, so younger children may struggle.
Con Not as graphically advanced as commercial competition
Con Getting stuck upside down
After a crash a pilot may be stuck in an upside down position with no way to recover.