Mrs. Crabtree's Geography Class

I recently showed this game to my nine-year-old son. He had a lot of fun with it, spending a couple of hours playing it over a few nights. He even went so far as to ask me to print out some maps of the U.S. so that he could practice finding routes from state to state.

Overall, my son really enjoyed the game, and it increased his knowledge of U.S. geography. A win.

I wouldn't really call this "interactive fiction," although it is parser-based. It's more of a text-based mini-game. Thus I don't feel I should give it a star rating.

This is a short minigame where you can start in any of the contiguous United States, and can go to any bordering states, but only once. You have to find an optimal path across the entire US that doesn't cross any state twice. The presentation of the classroom and some of the warning messages you get being shown in-universe is cool, too. I think this game will definitely be easier for some people than others, as I had to think about it for a bit, but it's smooth to play and I had fun with it.