Passing the time

[Scurra]

I think the difference is that when you are at school you are peripherally aware of what else is going on, but unless it's happening within your own circle of friends (or perhaps class) then you really don't know beyond rumours.

I've just finished reading A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil which is all about the process of going through school, but it is able to take that wider perspective and shows how many things go on that are affected by other things you simply know nothing about. It's very, very good (although there is a lot of swearing, but that's largely because it's used as a clever grammatical tool) and it too is very deliberately not set in an "inner-city" environment.

I've also been watching and enjoying Single Handed (possibly the first programme I have watched on ITV for several years!) which is about how a closed rural community can be in some ways a much more corrosive setting than the relative anonymity of the big city.

[Scurra]

Alice is Dead
Short "point-and-click" adventure - but pretty neat. Not too hard as long as you remember to combine things in your inventory as well as just using them on their own.

[fernando]

I tried it and it is a pretty good game.

[maisie ladybird]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this or not, but here goes anyway.....

Has anyone ever heard of Treasure Hunt Internet Puzzle Adventure. Have been into my local Home Bargains store and found this little box describing 'an intriguing puzzle journey through 50 puzzles, leading you around an enchanted destert island.'

It caught my attention and at £2.99 I thought it may be worth a chance, although the date on the box says 2003.

Having opened the box (it was all sealed up, so couldn't look inside before I bought it) it contains 16 tiles which you have to put together to make a treasure map - this will then give a clue which will enable you to enter the website - just had a look but can't get on until I've solved the map puzzle.

I'm going to give it a go anyway - but just wondered if anyone on here's done it, and is it any good.

[gill216]

In order- yes- I fell for buying it too. About 2 years ago I think. No, I wouldn't recommend it.

Solve the map get a password. Solve a level get another password. I think I passed it down the line somewhere. I'm not quite sure where it ended up.

[Scurra]

Yeah - that's why I write my puzzles as "sets", so that you should always have several to go at when you get stuck on one (or lots!) Well, until you get stuck on all of them, of course

Most of the Internet puzzles are very linear, which means you have to go in sequence; and we all know that everyone finds different puzzles easy and difficult.

[giraffe]

Or IMPOSSIBLE!

[Scurra]

Wordmachine

It's quite easy. Just type in three words beginning with the given letter, although each subsequent letter has to include an additional letter you are given. It's amazing how blank your mind can go sometimes, especially against a time limit.

Not only that, but you can play it in French as well as in English! (If your vocabulary is up to it, of course. Mine certainly isn't...)

[katsmom]

Being a puzzle collector, I bought both of the internet puzzles-if it's the lagoon games ones-great for the collection-not so great to play. But at 2.99 a steal! I think mine were 9.99 when they came out.

The online bit still works by the way.

[Bunnylump]

Go on then. What level did you get to? I got to level 19 first go. It's the time limit which does me in!!

[MBH]

Just given that a try - got to leve 21. Think I should have got further but made a couple of levels difficult for myself.

Nice quick-thinking quick-typing game.

[Bunnylump]

OK so now on level 36 so time to stop I feel...

[giraffe]

I tried it the other day and was rubbish because I only had a minute or two so didn't read the instructions properly. I didn't realise the word had to start with the letter, I thought it just had to contain them.

[kingsley]

Great game.

It's funny the words that you come up with in a hurry. When the game asked for a word beginning with U with an E in it, the first thing that came to mind was 'underwear'!

[Bunnylump]

Is that because there's lots of examples of it strewn all over your bedroom floor, because you're too lazy to put your clean washing in your drawer, like my "kids"?

The thing I found hard was having the letters in an order like that and then trying to think of them in different orders to get words. But then that's because I have a very single tracked mind and can only think of one thing at a time. Usually only for about a minute on each, I must confess, but there you go! (Butterfly head is a very mild description of me. Mind you, my daughter's just found the half empty milk bottle which she put in the glass cupboard this morning instead of the fridge... absolutely no hope, is there? )

[Scurra]

Dismantlement

Neat little game in which all you have to do is to work out how you take apart the radio when all you have is a screwdriver...
Oh, and watch out for the bomb.

[giraffe]

That was quite good, thought I was stuck at one point, but got there in the end.

[SparkOut]

Nice! I like that one.

[Wulfruna]

Yes! That was fun Eirian and I just had a joint effort at it during a phone call - and managed it between us Not without encountering a bomb or two, however.....

[Cenwulf]

See how good your spelling is with this one.
Must pop words
My current best score is 16740.