Play Mixed-up Mother Goose Online

Mixed-Up Mother Goose is a 1987 adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line, Inc. for the MS-DOS platform. Designed for a preschool audience, it presents a third-person perspective world where classic nursery rhyme characters have lost key elements from their stories. The player's objective is to explore this environment to restore the missing pieces to each rhyme.

The player controls a single character, chosen from a selection of eight at the start, navigating the world primarily using keyboard directional keys. The core activity involves walking through various screens, locating specific items or characters that belong to different nursery rhymes. The game uses a simple interaction system where moving close to an object automatically picks it up, though the character can only carry one item at a time. Objects are found in houses or outdoor areas, and living characters, once found, will follow the player so they can be led to their correct destination. To aid identification, characters in need of an item display a visual cue above them showing what they require.

Progression is structured around completing 18 distinct nursery rhymes. Each rhyme requires the player to find and deliver one or more missing elements, such as an object or a person, to a specific character. The items for these tasks are scattered randomly across the game's many screens. A point is awarded for each successfully completed rhyme. The game includes a bookmark feature, allowing progress to be saved at any time during play.