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Re: Passing the time

#381 Post by chazzie » Wed May 18, 2011 5:05 pm

i loved the fact it told you how many steps up and how many down :D

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Re: Passing the time

#382 Post by clvrlad » Wed May 18, 2011 5:31 pm

well if i had a heavy bag on wheels id want to know :-D
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Re: Passing the time

#383 Post by giraffe » Wed May 18, 2011 6:14 pm

I liked the turn toward the door. Walk 2 metres. Go through the door. :lol:

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#384 Post by chazzie » Wed May 18, 2011 7:44 pm

clvrlad wrote:well if i had a heavy bag on wheels id want to know :-D
In that case - being a feeble female I would want to know where the lifts were! Perhaps they should have 2 options those with and without luggage. The possibilities with this are endless .... Is there a marketing potential for puzzlebrains? If you managed to get out of the station then you are obviously good at puzzles - here's a free copy of past mag????

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Re: Passing the time

#385 Post by Bunnylump » Wed May 18, 2011 7:58 pm

:lol: :lol: That's an idea!

I ALMOST commented that the details about the steps etc. might be aimed at helping blind people. But then I realised that they wouldn't be looking at photos on the internet... :lol: :lol: (No, I'm NOT good at puzzles...)
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Re: Passing the time

#386 Post by giraffe » Wed May 18, 2011 8:06 pm

It asked me on the previous page if I could cope with steps, ramps, manual doors and lifts. So all eventualities are covered. I was tempted to go back again and say I wanted to get somewhere without stairs and doors. :lol: :lol:

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#387 Post by clvrlad » Wed May 18, 2011 9:13 pm

chazzie wrote:
In that case - being a feeble female I would want to know where the lifts were! Perhaps they should have 2 options those with and without luggage. The possibilities with this are endless .... Is there a marketing potential for puzzlebrains? If you managed to get out of the station then you are obviously good at puzzles - here's a free copy of past mag????
well being a feeble mechanical dog so would i.....

(please ignore the new k9 series ....it doesn't exist....)
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#388 Post by LAT » Wed May 18, 2011 9:29 pm

It's even got our local station on there. There are only 2 platforms and two entrances! But the route still has 12 photos. :D
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#389 Post by gill216 » Wed May 18, 2011 9:42 pm

It certainly looks good but I've just tried Leeds to Kings Cross twice as I'm doing that in the next month -and I'm pretty sure there is a right turn where there should be a left.

Unless of course they've shifted the platform numbers since the last time I did that route................
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Re: Passing the time

#390 Post by MBH » Wed May 18, 2011 11:47 pm

Bunnylump wrote:I ALMOST commented that the details about the steps etc. might be aimed at helping blind people. But then I realised that they wouldn't be looking at photos on the internet... :lol: :lol:
You'd be surprised. A well written website will have 'alternative tags' on picture areas that describe what the picture is showing. Specialist screen-reading softward can the say whatever is written. [Unfortunatly putting this on takes 'human work', so it often gets missed out :( ]
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Re: Passing the time

#391 Post by Bunnylump » Thu May 19, 2011 8:07 am

Actually, I knew that if I had thought about it. My blind friend uses it. It was because of him that I'm so aware of how important it is for blind people to know things like "how many steps there are" and "walk two metres and then turn left." (Not that I'm much help there, because I can't tell left from right... :oops:
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Re: Passing the time

#392 Post by Scurra » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:45 pm

Just an article, but with some good observations about things I have mentioned in the past myself...

Can pub quizzes survive in the smartphone era?
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Re: Passing the time

#393 Post by giraffe » Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:16 pm

I nearly pmed you a link to that this afternoon, but decided you would have seen it. :lol:

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Re: Passing the time

#394 Post by clvrlad » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:48 pm

does that mean scurra's starting a pub quiz up?
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Re: Passing the time

#395 Post by Bunnylump » Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:18 pm

What do you think, Scurra? MBH could run the bar... :lol:
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Re: Passing the time

#396 Post by Bunnylump » Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:30 pm

Hey, Google's quite cool today... :D
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Re: Passing the time

#397 Post by giraffe » Thu Jun 09, 2011 10:32 pm

Have you been twanging? :lol:

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Re: Passing the time

#398 Post by Bunnylump » Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:00 pm

Oh yes. It's amusing me while I'm failing to solve puzzles. :D
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Re: Passing the time

#399 Post by LAT » Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:47 pm

Oh a colleague mentioned it at work but I didn't get around to looking until now.
Just told my son who said he was quite glad he didn't discover it earlier - or he might have wasted a lot of time on it! :D

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Re: Passing the time

#400 Post by Scurra » Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:29 pm

Here's a nice relaxing little puzzler.

http://www.flaminglunchbox.net/curvy

Just click on the hexes to rotate them and get all the lines to join up correctly.

Note that it probably won't work in "older" browsers (like Internet Explorer 6), sorry.
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