Welcome to Mystery of the Lehigh Gap
Play a series of mini-games as you time travel to 1845, 1853, and 1912 in which you learn about historical mining, transportation, and industrial processes for a zinc smelting plant that converted a pristine landscape with vegetation to a barren moonscape.
Average playtime is 35-40 minutes.
Mystery of the Lehigh Gap is available to play in a Web browser, or on a PC computer.
Note: The Lehigh Gap formation video cannot be altered in the WebGL version. You can control the audio with your computer's audio settings.
For Web browser and PC and Macintosh computers:
The minimum requirements:
2.5 GHz Intel Core i3 processor, 2 GB RAM, at least 2 GB of free hard drive space
PLAY MYSTERY OF THE LEHIGH GAP in a Web Browser
Click here to install Mystery of the Lehigh Gap on a PC computer (1.2 GB)
This link will download a zip file called mystery.zip
Once downloaded, right click the file and select: Extract all.
- This will create a mystery folder on your PC.
- Open the folder.
- Click Mystery of the Lehigh Gap.exe to launch the game.
Notes:
- This content is not currently supported on mobile devices.
- Depending on your network connection, Mystery of the Lehigh Gap may take a minute or so to load on your computer.
- For best performance, we recommend using Mozilla Firefox or Chrome web browsers
- Please, disable any pop-up window blocker
Mystery of the Lehigh Gap was developed in partnership with the Lehigh Gap Nature Center, Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor National Canal Museum, Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center, and the Nurture Nature Center. This work is supported by Lehigh University Creative Inquiry.
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