Product Review
In The Secret of Shadow Ranch, Nancy goes to a working ranch in Arizona, where she is to stay with her cousins' family. However, Nancy arrives at the airport to a less-than-warm welcome from a ranch hand, only to find that Ed Rawley was bitten by a rattlesnake and is in hospital. As if that wasn't enough excitement, cousins Bess and George are stranded at the airport due to bad weather, so Nancy has to explore by herself.
Several new features have been added, including a larger game window. Nancy gets to learn about horses, barrel racing and how to use a lariat. To get from place to place (there are six major locations), Nancy rides Bob, the quarter horse. Nancy can search for information on the web with her cell phone, which provides numerous hints as to how to solve puzzles. There is a strong educational element here, as Nancy sifts through information on not only ranch life (cattle branding, barrel racing, picking vegetables, feeding horses), but numerous other topics (knitting, agates, petroglyphs, flowers).
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