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WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« on: Aug 21st, 2007, 5:52am » |
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Anyone know of some decent lateral thinking type games or quizzes on the net?
This British weather (It's supposed to be August, but it looks more like March outside and we've even got the heating on!  )has so far meant a good deal of time sat in front of the computer trying to find something to do and I thought that you might be of some help. 
If you could post any links that'd be great.
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #2 on: Aug 21st, 2007, 8:15am » |
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What do you mean "If nothing works"? The links seem to be fine (perfect for a day like today), and everything else is okay.
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #3 on: Aug 21st, 2007, 8:31am » |
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on Aug 21st, 2007, 8:15am, Aurora wrote:| What do you mean "If nothing works"? |
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I believe it was intended as "if you're still bored."
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #4 on: Aug 21st, 2007, 9:23am » |
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Oops, sitting in front of the PC all afternoon seems to be affecting my brain, better call it a day... 
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #5 on: Aug 21st, 2007, 12:55pm » |
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on Aug 21st, 2007, 9:23am, Aurora wrote:| Oops, sitting in front of the PC all afternoon seems to be affecting my brain, better call it a day... |
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Here's what I do when I am bored!!
If you use firefox there is a addon called "stumble upon" which is pretty good given on a click it takes you to a random page of your interest.. i have found some interesting pages that way..
I watch videos online... however I get bored of that pretty soon
I go through previous riddles on this forum 
If you are good with programming you can try projecteuler.net . THe forum equivalent of that is
http://mathschallenge.net/forum/
You can play "Silent Hill" .. i believe it has some puzzles in the game ...
If everything else fails read a book!!!
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #6 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 1:57am » |
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on Aug 21st, 2007, 12:55pm, Sameer wrote:If everything else fails read a book!!!
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Trouble is, I'm already averaging about 5 Agatha Christie's a week!
It'd be good if you could suggest any websites with similar sorts of problems as the 'What happened' section.
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« Reply #7 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 2:26am » |
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This was suggested to me by someone some years back (i think),
http://playsleuth.com/
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #8 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 3:09am » |
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Thanks, that's better than what I had hoped for.
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #10 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 3:42am » |
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on Aug 22nd, 2007, 3:30am, jollytall wrote:Crossing your eyes, overlaying the images, works pretty well to find differences.
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« Reply #11 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 5:23am » |
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That took 10 seconds literally an figuratively. Still those are fun though.
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« Reply #12 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 5:49am » |
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on Aug 22nd, 2007, 5:23am, mikedagr8 wrote:| That took 10 seconds literally an figuratively. Still those are fun though. |
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Later ones get more difficult.
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« Reply #13 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 5:58am » |
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I'll try them out tomorrow then.
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #14 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 6:31am » |
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on Aug 22nd, 2007, 3:42am, towr wrote:
Crossing your eyes, overlaying the images, works pretty well to find differences.
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And after several seconds of trying with one of them, I realized that it said 'Mirrored' at the top.
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #15 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 6:49am » |
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on Aug 22nd, 2007, 6:31am, Aurora wrote:
And after several seconds of trying with one of them, I realized that it said 'Mirrored' at the top. |
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Heh, yeah. Later on it doesn't work so well. You also get inverted (upside-down) later. And when the pictures move it's also a bit of a problem.
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #16 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 7:05am » |
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Typical, just as I thought that I should keep the suggestions for a rainy day, it's started blowing a gale and tipping it down. Will I ever get any sunshine 
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #17 on: Aug 22nd, 2007, 6:42pm » |
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Why not pick up a new hobby ? Try cooking for example. Nothing like working up on a recipe to spruce up your day.
Here's a nice website I frequent.
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #18 on: Aug 23rd, 2007, 12:13am » |
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JiNbOtAk, your suggestion would be great if it wasn't that I already bake a reasonable amount and I would do more if my mum wouldn't get so annoyed about me making my own birthday cake.
In the meantime, the weather is finally good so I'm not stuck inside any longer and there is plenty to do. 
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« Reply #19 on: Aug 23rd, 2007, 1:04am » |
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I'll trade the rain with you any day. WE NEED RAIN!!! 
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« Reply #20 on: Aug 23rd, 2007, 11:47pm » |
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I live at the bottom of a slope and the last time we had rain like this, it was 18cm high, I had to take off my shoes and socks and wade to the front door and the manhole looked like a fountain. Old neighbours of ours were storing their belongs in her Mum's garage, as their house had been struck by lightning only a week before; the garage was flooded and the few belongs that they had remaining were ruined.
I know the some places get it a lot worse, but you can see why I'm moaning!
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« Reply #21 on: Aug 24th, 2007, 4:39am » |
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Moaning? I'd be crying with joy for that kind of rain. We've been in drought for the past 10 years. We struggle to get past 180mm and your complaining? Please floods are no problem, droughts are. Floods you have back up solutions and you no what to do, drought you don't.
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Re: WANTED- Urgent boredom relief!
« Reply #22 on: Aug 24th, 2007, 4:59am » |
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on Aug 24th, 2007, 4:39am, mikedagr8 wrote:| Moaning? I'd be crying with joy for that kind of rain. We've been in drought for the past 10 years. We struggle to get past 180mm and your complaining? Please floods are no problem, droughts are. Floods you have back up solutions and you no what to do, drought you don't. |
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Good point, mikey. Whingeing Poms. 
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« Reply #23 on: Aug 24th, 2007, 5:06am » |
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Are you not yourself a Pom? 
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« Reply #24 on: Aug 24th, 2007, 5:12am » |
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on Aug 24th, 2007, 5:06am, mikedagr8 wrote:| Are you not yourself a Pom? |
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Yes, I have that honour.
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