> This is something I do several times a day at work. But today was the first day I realised how gamelike it was. One of my jobs on the ferry is loading and unloading cargo. [...] like today, I'm sent dockside to move the cargo around to where the crane can get at it in the right order.
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> Cargo comes in giant crates. They're blue and each has a large number on the side. [...] You can move them around on the dock by pushing them *really* hard, because they have little wheels underneath. [...] both types never move the way you think they will, because the little wheels all have Supermarket Trolley Disease. Sometimes there's only one place you can put a crate, and if there are four other crates in the way, you have to rearrange them all first. And some will only go in certain directions, and others won't move at ALL,
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Heh. Given that you don't have any heavily armed gestapo to avoid on the ferry (awww!), all I can say is... sounds a lot like SOKOBAN. Remember that particular game?

BoxWorld screenshot
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~arkhan/boxworld.htm

Wolf "Maybe you could squirt some graphite lubricant on the crate wheels, if you can reach them. Probably been YEARS since anyone thought of doing basic maintenance on them" spirit