developed by Rob McGee
for the USMRA
and bored safety trainees everywhere
Concentration Instructions
CONTENTS
This game uses frames. If your browser doesn't support them, you won't be able to play.
Set your screen resolution to 1024 x 768. This is done by right-clicking on your DESKTOP, select PROPERTIES, move the screen area bar to 1024 x 768 and click APPLY.
Next open any of the games shown as completed from the homepage (web users) or in MS Windows Explorer open any of the "concentration.htm" files from any of the folders provided here (CD users).
For IE Explorer 6.0 users:
From your browser window, click on VIEW - TOOLBARS. Unselect the Address Bar and Standard Buttons view. This will optimize the viewing area and fully display the puzzle or photo.
Note: You may want to experiment with turning these views on and off as this may vary from one system to another.
Divide your audience into two or more groups.
The goal is to reveal the photo or puzzle and properly describe or translate same.
Each of the 30 frames are actually web pages. Including the frame number image, there are 4 pages related to each frame. They are:
1 - Frame number image
2 - Image to make a match
3 - The question/answer related to the game's theme.
4 - 1/30th of the actual photo/puzzle to describe.
Players call out two numbers to reveal and hopefully match the images shown.
When a match is made, the game moderator will then reveal a question related to the game's theme. The question is always contained in the lower numbered frame. The other frame contains the answer.
Point values are awarded for making matches, correctly answering questions, and translating the puzzle or describing the photograph. You decide these. It's recommended that you use values that can easily be tallied as the game progresses.
If a team fails to correctly answer the associated question, the puzzle parts are still revealed. That team just loses the right to guess the puzzle of make further selections until they regain control of the board.
There will be a need to re-hide the images to match. And as you'll recall, you've removed the standard buttons which contained the "BACK" button. Don't fret, this can also be done using ALT + LeftArrow.
That's it. There are 10 different games and 15 puzzle backgrounds to choose from, but if you'd like to make your own questions and answers, you can easily edit these pages. The questions and answers are in the files containing _2.htm (e.g. 28_2.htm)
Games using the Q
Games using the multiple choice format will display a card with the letter Q. After the match is made, click on the Q to display the question on a separate page. Placing and resting your mouse pointer on the Q will display the question. After allowing sufficient time to read the question and accompanying choices, use your "back" button to return to the game. The Q will automatically change to reveal the puzzle piece after 12 seconds. Click on the matching card to display the answer and continue as described above.
 Game 1 - Front-end loader digging with bucket (photo) |
 Game 2 - Men and machines recovering overturned haul truck (photo) |
 Game 3 - Female elk/deer bedded down in tall grass (photo) |
 Game 4 - Flashlight (photo) |
 Game 5 - "Safety will stick like glue in 2002" |
 Game 6 - "Safety counts" |
 Game 7 - "Fire drill" |
 Game 8 - "Mine safety training" |
 Game 9 - "Pre-operating safety checks" |
 Game 10 - "Kill no more pidgeons than you can eat" |
 Game 11 - "Seat belts required" |
 Game 12 - "Don't think it, do it" |
 Game 13 - "The sleeping fox catches no poultry" |
 Game 14 - "A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats" |
 Game 15 - "A little neglect may breed great mischief" |
 Game 16 - "The mistakes are all waiting to be made" |
 Game 17 - "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal" |
 Game 18 - "A stitch in time saves nine" |
 Game 19 - "A clever man commits no minor blunders" |
 Game 20 - "Black holes are where God divided by zero" |
 Game 21 - "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" |
Have Fun and Be Safe!