Play Super Solvers: OutNumbered! Online

I first played Super Solvers: OutNumbered! back in the early 90s on our family's MS-DOS machine. It was one of those educational titles from The Learning Company that didn't feel like a chore. In an era dominated by platformers and adventure games, it stood out by cleverly disguising math practice as a high-stakes television studio heist.

You control a young agent from the Super Solvers team, navigating a maze of rooms to find and stop the master of disguise, Morty Maxwell. The main objective is to solve enough math problems to unlock the final door before the show's broadcast ends. You move screen by screen, answering questions to earn keys or disable security devices like cameras and trap doors. The pacing is urgent, with a timer counting down, and the difficulty comes from the math itself; problems cover addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, with wrong answers causing the studio audience to boo. Successfully solving a string of problems to corner Morty feels like a genuine, earned victory.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".