The Case of the Seven Reflections: A Fairy Detective Optics Mystery!
About the Game
The game is based on Grimm’s Snow White fairy tale.
You have been hired to investigate a crime: the seven dwarves unearthed an enormous emerald with strange properties, but it was immediately stolen!
To determine the thief you’ll need to:
Question the queen’s magic mirror to learn the physics of mirrors
Interrogate the seven dwarves
Use logic to combine their testimonies and your knowledge of mirrors
Concepts Taught:
Properties of convex, concave, and plane mirrors
Includes:
Hands-on grounding of the concepts (Bring a metal spoon and a hand mirror when you play :))
Links to Phet Simulations to better understand the behavior of light rays
How to Download and Play:
Download the game folder by clicking the button below
When the folder is downloaded, either open the folder and choose ‘Extract All’ or right click on the folder and choose ‘Extract All’ Make sure to select ‘Show extracted files when complete.’
Open the extracted folder and double click on ‘The Case of the Seven Reflections’
The other files are all things that make the game work, like images and fonts. You don’t have to do anything with them, they just need to be there for the game to work.
NOTE: The game will only work on a laptop or desktop (mac or PC), not a phone or tablet
If you like this, The Sorceress of Circuits is similar but even better!
(Longer, way more illustrations, more concepts covered, more branching storylines)
