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) <[email protected]> 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. > [email protected] > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#122699): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/122699 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/75798500/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
