Tumbletown Tales
The adventures of Tumbleweed always seem to require the little hamster to exercise his mathematical skills.
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Borrowing From Friends
March 11, 2013
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Where To Keep Money, Literally
March 4, 2013
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Buying Designer
February 25, 2013
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Sharing With My Friends
February 18, 2013
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Finding Money
February 17, 2013
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Hamster For Hire
February 11, 2013
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Approximating At The Electronics Store
February 4, 2013
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Giving To Charity
January 28, 2013
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How To Count Change
January 21, 2013
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Why People Go To Work
January 14, 2013
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Best Team in Tumbletown
December 18, 2007
The rodents of Tumbletown form basketball teams named after shapes.
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Master of Degrees
December 13, 2007
Tumbleweed goes skiing thinking that 25 degrees is cold & learns that it's actually hot. He goes to the beach when the temperature is 0 degrees & learns that is freezing. When it's 20 degrees he learns that that is perfect picnic weather.
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Super See-Saw 6000
December 11, 2007
Tumbleweed buys a see saw & learns that in order to enjoy it, he must play with a friend that is of equal or similar mass.
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Tangrams
December 6, 2007
Tumbleweed buys his friend a tangram & learns that these shapes are made up of 5 triangles, a small square and a parallelogram.
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Octagon Tables
December 4, 2007
Tumbleweed orders new tables for the diner where he works but they arrive in an unexpected shape.
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Pool Haul
November 29, 2007
Tumbleweed buys a swimming pool & has to set it up.
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Seeds 4 Life
November 27, 2007
Tumbleweed orders a bag of seeds per day to his house and ends up with far more seeds than he can eat.
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Flyers
November 22, 2007
Tumbleweed gets a job delivering flyers.
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Garage Sale
November 20, 2007
Tumbleweed has a garage sale & runs into a problem when a customer gives him 50 cents for something that cost 27 cents.
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Secret Rodent Club
November 15, 2007
Tumbleweed wants to build a clubhouse but is confused about the amount of bricks to be used.
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Tumbletown Fiesta la Vista
October 16, 2005
Tumbleweed learns how to tell time from a digital clock, by using an analog clock and quarters.
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Tumbletown Purple Reigns
October 15, 2005
Tumbleweed wants to paint his room and is left to his own devices to figure out what two colours make purple.
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Seed Points
October 14, 2005
The Seed Miles Rewards programme allows you to redeem seed miles for fabulous prizes. Tumbleweed calculates how many seed miles he has at various stages of a huge spending spree in order to redeem them for a snowboard.
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Seed-tiques Road Show
October 12, 2005
The Seed-tiques Road Show is coming to Tumbletown and Tumbleweed has 20 of his most rare and precious seeds to show them. Unfortunately, he forgets his wallet and has to pay with seeds on the several stops he makes along the way.
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Rodent Idol
October 10, 2005
Tumbleweed makes it all the way to the final two on the hit TV show, "Rodent Idol". The good news, the audience votes on their favorite, the bad news, he's up against his arch-nemesis, "Zeus".
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Tropical Pair Of Mice
October 9, 2005
Tumbleweed & Burfy are trapped on a desert island for 100 days. They not only have to figure out how to survive, but also how to count to 100.
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Short Order Cook
October 8, 2005
Tumbleweed has trouble taking orders for seeds at a restaurant. He learns different ways to add numbers to equal 10.
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Shopping's Fee
October 7, 2005
Tumbleweed has a dollar. He goes on a crazy shopping spree, stopping occasionally to figure out how much he has before plunging back into the retail frenzy.
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Drawn And Quartet
October 5, 2005
Tumbleweed's singing group, The Furballs, win first place on the TV show "Singing for Pie". But how to divvy up their prize?
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To Sail The Seven Seeds
October 3, 2005
The crazy ferryman's fun time party cruise leaves at 4:00, but Tumbleweed has some problems getting there on time.
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Domestic Animal
December 3, 2004
Tumbleweed tries to figure out how to get the most seed cookie shapes out of his rolled dough using turns, flips and slides of the cut-out shape.
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Chomp-etition
November 29, 2004
When Tumbleweed learns that his arch-nemesis, Zeus, has beaten his record for seed eating by 8 seeds, Tumbleweed boldly sets out to beat that record by another 8 seeds. When the dust settles, it's a matter of some pretty complicated subtraction...or is it?
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Keeping Up With Zeus
November 26, 2004
Tumbleweed and his arch-nemesis, Zeus, compete to have the best 'front-of-castle' decoration. Tumbleweed has a little trouble when he tries to erect a statue, he didn't ask for the right shapes and thus gets stuck with all 2D objects.
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A Seed By Any Other Weight
November 19, 2004
Tumbleweed learns that he has won his weight in seeds (or seed related products). At the television studio Tumbleweed tries many different choices, trying to end up with the largest pile he can. Unfortunately, the lightest product happens to be something he doesn't like (which he realizes too late).
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Trading Cages
November 12, 2004
Tumbleweed and his best friend, Burfy, are on the show 'trading cages', where they get to redecorate each other's living spaces. Tumbleweed agonizes over what choices Burfy is more 'likely' to appreciate.
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The Even Littler Hobo
November 5, 2004
Setting off to go to his best friend Burfy's party, Tumbleweed encounters a rabbit who gives him directions in paces. However, as Tumbleweed realizes much much later on, rabbit paces are longer that hamster paces; he's taken the wrong road!
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Field of Seeds
October 29, 2004
Tumbleweed sets out to count the plants he has growing in his back garden. Finding it too difficult to count by single numbers Tumbleweed starts counting by the number of plants across each row.
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Traffic Co-Op
October 24, 2004
Tumbletown's Traffic is Terrible! What's more, it's Tumbleweed's job to fix it! He takes to the streets to find out what the people think. Making a chart to keep track of the votes Tumbleweed responds to popular opinion and introduces city buses!
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Pile Driver
October 15, 2004
Tumbleweed tries to organize his seeds into two closets. Unfortunately, every time he picks a way of organizing he either gets 3 piles or some seeds that could go in both piles. He needs to find a good category which will split the seeds without doubling.
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Current Sea-Worthy
October 8, 2004
Tumbleweed has trouble taking 99 pennies to the store in order to buy some seeds. Fortunately, the Barge Driver helps him out by explaining that one dollar will work just as well...and won't sink Tumbleweed's boat.
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De'Fence
January 29, 2004
Tumbleweed decides to put up a fence to keep other rodents out of his garden.
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Mix Master
January 28, 2004
Tumbleweed decides he needs more variety in his seed mix.
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Silo Road
January 27, 2004
Tumbleweed tries to find a silo big enough to store all his seeds.
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Green Thumb Conundrum
January 26, 2004
Tumbleweed decides to plant a garden in front of his castle.
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Birthday Crate
January 23, 2004
It's Tumbleweed's birthday & he wants to throw a party But he can't find the crate that contains all his birthday supplies.
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Room with a Choo
January 22, 2004
Tumbleweed decides to build an addition to his house.
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Wagons, Boats and Automobiles
January 21, 2004
Tumbleweed uses a wagon, a boat and a car to go into town and pick up more seeds.
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Play Rodent Ball
January 20, 2004
The Tumbletown Fur Balls lose their soccer game against Rat Town until Tumbleweed discovers a pattern.
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Not So Fantastic Voyage
January 19, 2004
Tumbleweed decides to take a trip, but he's burdened down by the amount of seeds he's travelling with.
