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Advantages: Small, Light and aesy to take anywhere. Disadvantages: None
Shocking Roulette
I had this toy given to me for Christmas,
It?s simple but has given my friends and myself hours of fun and suspense. I?ve even lent this game to friends because they have had relatives visiting and want to shock them (he-he) and every one of them has asked then, how I have acquired it and how can they get one. (I found out later that mine was from Argos and cost £12.99).
The game is for 2 to 4 victims, yes victims as it says on the box, the idea of the game is as it says ROULETTE
All you do is select how many victims there are then put your finger in the hole and press start, the noises alone are enough to build the tension.
To start with the selector light will run around the victims fingers,(you think that?s ok, at least I can try to work out if I?m going to be the victim) then the light goes out but ...
Advantages: Keeps you awake Disadvantages: May still kill your granny
going on, the little black switch on the top was turned to "on" and four red lights corresponding to the finger slots began to light up in sequence. Roulette had begun.
The object of the game is obviously to avoid getting shocked by the little round electronic pad that your finger rests on inside the arc-shaped slots. The shock you receive is very small, but it's still enough to make you jerk your finger back and recoil in fear from the tiny inanimate object rested before you. I didn't receive the first shock, so it was an absolute hoot to watch my 15 year old sister squeal in horror and refuse to put her finger back inside the sibling-fryer. Damn.
Next came Grandad and Dad. In the interim period, I had a quick nosey at the instructions for use slip. A few sentences on how you shouldn't play this game if you have a pacemaker ...
Advantages: Beatiful scenery, unspoilt and outback Disadvantages: Very hot, very wet at certain times of the year, not easily accesible without transport
us a lot about how the Aboriginal people use the local plants. The silver leaved paperbark leaves can be boiled up and a poultice made for wounds, that liquid can also be drunk as a tea which is good for sore throats.
This gorge is in Nitmiluk National Park which means Land of the Cicadas in the local Aboriginal dialect.
EDITH FALLS:
We continued in this National Park to Edith Falls where the pools were so full that no swimming was allowed and the falls were actually quite short - not too far to fall to the waterhole at all. This is a very popular swimming hole for the people of Darwin but when the pools are this full swimming is not allowed because crocodiles are then able to travel in to the pools via the swollen river. Once the rainy season is over and the pools are once again cut off from incoming rivers, they are checked for crocs ...
