Re: [blind-gamers] Explaining the compass, any ideas?

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What's his confusion? They're the cardinal directions.<div
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On 7/26/20, Chris Norman via groups.io
<chris.norman2=googlemail....@groups.io> wrote:
> If you're facing north, east is to your right, and west is to your left
> (left sort of rhymes with west).
>
> Never Eat Shreaded Wheat is how I was told to remember it, for north, east,
> south, west. That or Naughty Elephants Squirt Water.
>
> Could imagine standing at the centre of a cross for those of a religious
> persuasion, the centre of a crossroads for travel enthusiasts, or lying
> flat on your back with your legs tied together and your arms stretched out
> to either side with someone standing on your belly button for those of a
> ... whatever.
>
> All of those things describe the "cardinal" directions nicely. The
> confusing bit comes when you're facing any direction that isn't north.
>
> Maybe get this person to build a mockup of the compass with pens, wiki
> sticks, spaghetti, or whatever else takes their fancy. Keep their finger on
> one of the ends, or somehow mark it differently to show direction facing,
> then spin it and say the directions out loud? Clockwise takes you through
> east, south, westand finally back to north, while anticlockwise takes you
> through west, south, east, then back to north.
>
> If you need some kind of way to remember the directions backwards, come up
> with some kind of rhyme (the ruder the better in my experience).
>
> Hope this rambling helps somewhat.
>
> Take care,
>
> Chris Norman
>
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 07:31, Gary Price(Gmail) <gazwpr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Morning everyone!
>> Please can anyone come up with any ideas.
>>
>> I'm trying to help a new friend Damien Garwood complete level one on
>> Shades of Doom.
>>
>> But he can't understand the basic points of the compass. North, South,
>> East and West.
>>
>> My friend Chris Graham in Australia came up with the idea of a box.
>> This he gets I think, but what's really confusing him is the fact you've
>> got to walk forward to go in a certain direction.
>>
>> When I mentioned the box thing on WhatsApp he responded yeh, but you
>> can't
>> turn forwards or backwards.
>>
>> Another thing Chris Graham came up with was the four basic directions, up
>> down left and right.
>> Up North, down South, left West and right East.
>> I think he understands but I'm not sure.
>>
>> How else can I explain it? Any ideas welcomed! I'm stumped.
>> Thanks look forward to hopefully some responses!
>> .
>> --
>> Gary Price.
>> This is my backup Email address.
>> gazwpr...@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>
> 
>
>


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