What about a corner that challenges people's problem solving abilities?
Aspies are supposed to like solving puzzles, so how about it?
What about a corner that challenges people's problem solving abilities?
Aspies are supposed to like solving puzzles, so how about it?
NAS22687 said:[quote][/quote]
Did he ever write any poems about toilets BTW?
I should hope so. Because I'm an illiterate pleb, I admit I got him mixed up with George Eliot and assumed it was a chosen pen name rather than his real name (George Eliot actually being Mary Whatsherface).
It seems that T.S.Eliot was the first to publicly point out the toilets anagram, though. Which is awesome in itself.
You're making me laugh again, vometia.
Blues said:[quote][/quote]
No, Blues, not sarcasm. It was a compliment, but one that was exaggerated to include some gentle humour. It was kind of meant to make you feel ok about yourself.
Sorry, i feel awful now. I'll try to read less into posts in future and take them in good faith
Blues
Forget it, Blues, we're all mates here.
lostmyway said:No, Blues, not sarcasm. It was a compliment, but one that was exaggerated to include some gentle humour. It was kind of meant to make you feel ok about yourself.
Sorry, i feel awful now. I'll try to read less into posts in future and take them in good faith
Blues
lostmyway said:Did he ever write any poems about toilets BTW?
I should hope so. Because I'm an illiterate pleb, I admit I got him mixed up with George Eliot and assumed it was a chosen pen name rather than his real name (George Eliot actually being Mary Whatsherface).
It seems that T.S.Eliot was the first to publicly point out the toilets anagram, though. Which is awesome in itself.
NAS22687 said:I'm afraid I got really stuck on "mousy-coloured": that seems to be one of those cases of "variously reckoned to suit the reckoner", as the Chambers dictionary famously says about the somewhat elusive definition of middle-aged.
And I never realised that about T.S.Eliot. I'm suddenly a fan, and hope it was deliberate.
Did he ever write any poems about toilets BTW?
lostmyway said:[quote][/quote]
Great idea!
I used to like the word wheel when I was, how should I put this, in hospital for my own safety.
Once the OT put one up and I thought about it for a moment or two, and I said "Supported".
And I was right. The anagram was Keeps Super Ted up. Always been pretty good with that kind of thing.
Only thing I can do.
We have a genius in our midst!!
Sarcasm?
I was not bragging in any way, just saying. For me that was an accomplishment
I'm afraid I got really stuck on "mousy-coloured": that seems to be one of those cases of "variously reckoned to suit the reckoner", as the Chambers dictionary famously says about the somewhat elusive definition of middle-aged.
And I never realised that about T.S.Eliot. I'm suddenly a fan, and hope it was deliberate.
NAS22687 said:I could never do cryptic crosswords at all: I think they require too much understanding of metaphor and... stuff. I'm not too bad at puzzles where I'm clear about the rules, but I've always been very bad at puzzles where I have to spend more time figuring out what the questions are than the answers. Same back when I was doing my O-levels, some of the exam writers obviously had a serious problem being concise and unambiguous: I always hated those ones.
Good point, vometia. Of course, there are all kinds of puzzles.
Ok, this one should be right up your street, vometia:
I was visiting my daughter's friends and noticed a number of things.
Jessica had mousy coloured hair and the girl with black hair was wearing a green dress.
Lucy is not blonde and Lauren does not have brown hair, Chloe was wearing a blue dress.
The blonde girl was not wearing red and Lauren was not wearing green.
I don't recall which girl was wearing a yellow dress.
Can you work out the colours of the girl's dresses and their hair?
Blues said:Great idea!
I used to like the word wheel when I was, how should I put this, in hospital for my own safety.
Once the OT put one up and I thought about it for a moment or two, and I said "Supported".
And I was right. The anagram was Keeps Super Ted up. Always been pretty good with that kind of thing.
Only thing I can do.
We have a genius in our midst!!
I could never do cryptic crosswords at all: I think they require too much understanding of metaphor and... stuff. I'm not too bad at puzzles where I'm clear about the rules, but I've always been very bad at puzzles where I have to spend more time figuring out what the questions are than the answers. Same back when I was doing my O-levels, some of the exam writers obviously had a serious problem being concise and unambiguous: I always hated those ones.
Great idea!
I used to like the word wheel when I was, how should I put this, in hospital for my own safety.
Once the OT put one up and I thought about it for a moment or two, and I said "Supported".
And I was right. The anagram was Keeps Super Ted up. Always been pretty good with that kind of thing.
Only thing I can do.
Martian Tom said:Good idea.
I'm not great with puzzles, though I quite enjoy them. I like doing things like IQ tests, creativity tests, etc. My spatial awareness isn't good. I've never been able to do things like the Rubik's Cube. My ex could solve it in under a minute, however mixed up it was, and I never understood how she managed it. If I go around a couple of corners, I never know which way I'm facing, and can never place myself in relation to other parts of a building or area.
I like cryptic crosswords, though.
Yeah, I'm pretty useless at puzzles myself, Tom, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy them given the time.
This reminds me of when I was working with a bunch of guys some years ago.
What we did was when things were slow someone would pop out and buy a copy of 'The Times' or 'The Guardian' or some other 'broadsheet' paper in order to cut out the cryptic crossword. What we did was get photocopies of it and hand the copies around to the guys and each of us would try to solve as many of the clues as we could and although you had to do it in fits and starts, depending on how busy it got, we could usually complete it between us before the day was out.
I was pretty hopeless and had to use one of those electronic dictionaries/thesaurus to assist me, but it soon made me better at doing crosswords. I was never very good but it passed the time and lightened the group atmosphere.
The point about puzzles and so on is that it is something to occupy your mind with instead on dwelling on stuff that can make you unhappy, especially with other people..
