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Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue! is an educational logic game released in 1989 for MS-DOS. Developed by Sculptured Software, Inc. and published by The Learning Co., it is the first title in the Super Solvers series. The game is set in the fictional Shady Glen School and is designed to engage players in deductive reasoning and reading comprehension.

Players take on the role of a student tasked with preventing the Shady Glen School from disappearing. The antagonist, the Master of Mischief, has disguised himself as one of five robot paintbrushes that plan to paint the school with vanishing paint at midnight. The primary objective is to identify which robot is the Master of Mischief by exploring the school's side-view environments. Progression involves navigating through the school to locate hidden clues that provide facts about the culprit's identity. Players must avoid or interact with other robots that can obstruct their search, some of which may also hold valuable information.

A key gameplay system involves using a camera tool to take pictures of suspicious robots, allowing for closer examination. The game structures its challenges around collecting and analyzing textual clues to eliminate possibilities and make a final deduction. This process of investigation and logical elimination forms the core of the interactive experience, with the player's success dependent on correctly interpreting the gathered evidence before the in-game deadline.