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Who is she competing with?


Everyone/herself. Game mechanics: you earn points, you get badges... she wants to be able to say "look what I did." She likes "winning" and you can "win" in the sense of moving forward thru "levels," getting achievements, etc.


I did the same thing, growing up with the various Super Solvers games from The Learning Company (Outnumbered!, Midnight Rescue!, and so on).




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