A game identification question I encountered - MS-DOS/Windows 3.1, floppy disk, early 90s.

[AstridRedfern]

A while ago, someone (not me!) posted the below question on the StackExchange sci-fi forum (https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/260556/looking-for-a-puzzle-game-for-young-children).

I've made a few attempts to find the answer to this one, because it brings back nostalgic memories of the old "Fun School 2" floppies and my dad's old educational software catalogue. But I haven't had any luck, and so I'm posting it here in the hope that someone on an actual vintage computing site, as opposed to a sci-fi site, might recognise it:

I am trying to find a game again I played as a young child. I played it roughly in 1992-1994 in Germany on Windows 3.1 from a floppy disk. I was around 4 years old.
Here is what I still remember:

• It contained a couple of simple puzzle games. Aside from one game, knowledge of numbers and letters were not necessary.
• The music in the background was Rondo Alla Turca (Türkischer Marsch) from Mozart though I might have misremembered that as I (or my mother) played Lemmings at that time too. (See comments)
• One game required the player to put together various parts of a hay wagon. One part was the wheel, two parts formed the hay, ...
• Another game was to help a frog to jump from water lily to water lily. You had to estimate the distance and enter it as a number. E.g. 1 if the leaves were right next to each other. I remember having problems estimating larger distances (> 4).
• I think there was also a shadow-matching game, but I am not sure about that.
• There was a world view in which to choose the puzzle to play. For example, the pond to play the frog game or the barn? for the hay wagon puzzle.
• I dimly remember there were two friendly-looking monsters/aliens?, whose shape resembled Mike from Monster Inc. I think it was their shape used in the shadow-matching game.

I tried googling various parts of it or looked into MS-DOS game websites, but so far, no luck. My mother cannot remember any details either. She got the disk from a colleague at work.

Thanks to anyone who recognises it!

Astrid.

 

[LiqMatrix]

I would also ask this question over at Vogons.org. Probably in their Milliways section. That forum has many European members who might recall from that description as well.

 

[LiqMatrix]

A while ago, someone (not me!) posted the below question on the StackExchange sci-fi forum (https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/260556/looking-for-a-puzzle-game-for-young-children).

I've made a few attempts to find the answer to this one, because it brings back nostalgic memories of the old "Fun School 2" floppies and my dad's old educational software catalogue. But I haven't had any luck, and so I'm posting it here in the hope that someone on an actual vintage computing site, as opposed to a sci-fi site, might recognise it:



Thanks to anyone who recognises it!

Astrid.

Just a long shot, but I checked my archives and I do have an older German 111 Games CD. Could it be those mini games were all separate games? The CD has a handful of frog games involving lily pads and it has an alien game. I could not find anything involving a hay wagon. Anyway, I've attached the alien game screenshot from the CD install menu. I realize the CD is much newer than what they describe, but a lot of these multi-game CDs have much older games on them. Cheers.

 

[AstridRedfern]

Could it be those mini games were all separate games?

It could well be. I've left a comment on the Stack Exchange post - hopefully OP will respond. Thanks for that!