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Mystery at the Museums is an educational game released in 1993 for the MS-DOS platform. It was published by Binary Zoo Software, Inc. and combines elements of geography, math, logic, and science within a puzzle-solving framework. The game is presented from a side view perspective and is designed for players, particularly children, to engage with various academic subjects.

In the game, players control a member of a detective agency who is tasked with locating missing treasures that have been misplaced or hidden inside museums. The player is accompanied by a character named Edison, whose appearance can be customized. The core activity involves navigating through museums and solving a series of puzzles to progress. These puzzles include matching hidden pictures, sliding tiles to complete an image, solving falling block puzzles, and matching constellations from a selection. Each solved puzzle provides educational information related to the subject matter. The game is structured into sessions of varying difficulty, aimed at an age range of approximately six to thirteen years and older. Completing a session by finding all treasures allows a player to be listed on a high scores table. Player progress is saved and can be loaded for individual game profiles.