Commincate!

A game based on Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes that I made for HWG 2 unit 5.

This is only available in Google slides and will not work without slides or students in the class having chromebooks/PC's.

Format:

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• Put students in pairs or groups (it will be easier in groups).

• Students must use their chromebooks or laptops to play.

• Give each pair/group a worksheet for writing their solutions.

How to play:

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• Each group must use two different laptops and they should not be able to see each other's screens.

• One laptop will use the bomb manual, the other will be looking at the bomb. They must talk with each other to exchange information between each view.

• Students must use the manual to both determine the order puzzles must be solved in and how to solve each puzzle.

• Bombs are successfully defused when all 5 puzzles are completed in the correct order.

How to implement:

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• First, these are LARGE presentations, so directly opening each one on each laptop will likely make the game run slow due to load times. To get around this, after you've made a copy on your own drive, publish it (file>share>publish) and share the link with the class. Remove the &delayms= part from the URL. I suggest copy pasting a QR code on the last sheet of the worksheet.

• These slides use slide linking to get around google slides not having macros like powerpoint - make it clear that students must not use keys to navigate slides, they must click. Additionally, if the mouse goes idle and students click, it will skip slides instead of clicking on the slide link, so make sure theyre aware of this as well (skipping will start the game over completely).

Google slide links:

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1arFQow_SkAY5Z0l58WQLjsPH8Sbee-WX