Sep. 18th, 2005

Fun and...

Sep. 18th, 2005 09:44 pm
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Yesterday I played various games with Hugh, Meredith and [livejournal.com profile] surliminal - including Robo Rally. Things were going well until we came to explain the rules to Meredith/[livejournal.com profile] surliminal - which basically involve being dealt 9 cards and choosing 5 of them to give as instructions to a robot. These cards can be Move Forward(1, 2 or 3 spaces), Move Back, Turn Left, Turn Right and U-Turn.

At which point both of them burst out laughing at the thought that we expected them to be able to cope with such ridiculous ideas.

I, myself was stunned. I know that some people (and statistically, more women than men) aren't so good at spacial awareness - but this seemed so simple, especially as the directions are on the cards as large arrows, that I couldn't understand how anyone could have a problem with it. However, [livejournal.com profile] surliminal was _still_ amused by it today, so here's a poll...

[Poll #572922]

(I'd like to point out the bit above where I expected them to be fine with Forward, Back, Left, Right, Turn Around...)

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