Archives for August, 2008
I'm a novice I just bought a Soduku puzzle book and I'm trying to get to come up with techniques to solving the puzzles. So I havent started timing how fast I can finish the puzzles. I just wanted to know what everyone elses average time is.
10 minuets for me
My friends and I are doing a community service project to spread awareness about autism. We are planning a roving carnival, with game stations that children can take part in to learn about autism. Basically we just wanna let them understand how it’s like to be autistic, or to learn more about autism through the game. Currently the only game we can come up with is Charades. The kids range from 7 years old to 12.
Do you guys have any suggestions for games? 
Another game that could be fan and shows again how difficult can be to communicate something, is the following:
- Place small items like a clothes pin, a key, a battery, a ring, etc each in a small cotton fabric bag (you need to make these) of the same color and tie them shut.
- Make two identical bags of each item. And have the kids in two teams. Each kid gets one of the bags. S/he needs to feel what is inside the bag and then describe it to the team-mates without using the name of the item. Example: Key - it is made of metal, can be used to open a door, has teeth, etc.
- Time them. The least time to guess gets a higher score.
This will show kids how people with autism can sometimes create a mental image of something (thinking in pictures) but it is hard to communicate (put into words) what it is they “see” in their mind.
Since the kids do not see item but visualize it through the sense of touch, they create a 3-D mental image of the item, which is similar of how an autistic person will think of an item before communication what they are thinking in words, describing the mental image, is the hardest part, and that is why the speech of many autistic kids is so fragmented because they are describing a mental 3-D image into 2-D words…
Once you have made these little bags with the items, you can use them again and again. If they get dirty just put them in a pilowcase and wash them in the washing machine.
Good luck!
anyone know where i can find a website that offers free download
Absolutely… In fact, here is a great one…
http://angusj.com/sudoku/
The program is simple to use and very powerful. It also has an amazing help file that provides all the simple and advanced strategy you might want.