Wordle is a daily word game where players have six attempts to guess a five letter word. Feedback for each guess is given in the form of colored tiles to indicate if letters match the correct position
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Play Countdown
Countdown is a British game show involving word and number tasks. In the (online) word game you select vowels and consonants as you wish. You then have 30 seconds to find the longest word in the jumbled list. You can select “Solve” to see how you did.
Play the Countdown (Word) game here. Note there is also a link to the Number game and the Conundrum
Build Something Using Magnetic Balls (Great for Stress Relief Too)
I can’t begin to tell you how satisfying it is watching this YouTube channel called Magnet World. With magnets (just like Lego) you can build whatever you want. Check out the various videos here and put in an order to buy the magnetic balls (you can buy them eBay) and have a go at them yourself.
Fun websites to beat boredom
MakeUseOf has a recent article, 15 Fun Websites for Instantly Beating Boredom Online
Looking for websites to go to when bored? Don’t let boredom get boring. Even Steve Jobs was a fan of boredom. He believed that boredom allowed room for creativity. We all know how that turned out.
Even science says boredom is good for the brain. So, trust the boffins and take on boredom with these fun websites
Here’s the first one to get you tempted: The Secret Door
Get into tie-dying
Ordinarily, when you think of tie-dye you probably think of 90s ravers or children under 10, but there’s nothing ordinary about the time we’re living in.
Since lockdown started it seems that tie-dye has made a comeback and it seems that everyone, from the Beckham family and Victoria Secret Angel, Alessandra Ambrosio, to influencers across the UK, have been sharing the fruits of their labour online.
For more information read Tie-dying has become the latest self-isolation Instagram trend, this kit has everything you need
Play Quick Draw
Can a neural network learn to recognize doodling?Help teach it by adding your drawings to the world’s largest doodling data set, shared publicly to help with machine learning research.
Over 15 million players have contributed millions of drawings playing Quick, Draw! These doodles are a unique data set that can help developers train new neural networks, help researchers see patterns in how people around the world draw, and help artists create things we haven’t begun to think of. That’s why we’re open-sourcing them, for anyone to play with.
Play Quick Draw
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Take a tour on a London bus – in 1950
The London red bus is iconic. This short film produced by the British Government describing how to travel on the London Buses. Dated 1950
Learn How to Make Soap
In this video, Elly goes through the introduction of soap making, the recipe and all the materials you need. This is the first part of a two part series with the second episode, Soap Making Tutorial for Beginners https://youtu.be/Kc7duzDEa6Y, demonstrates the full method of making a batch of cold process soap. We need soap as we were told that it aids against the corona virus!
