Back to workLink or Lose — Fire Safety Card Game
Link or Loose transforms conventional fire safety training into an engaging collaborative card game. Designed for industrial workers, the game teaches users how to identify fire classes and match them with the correct extinguisher type through quick decision-making, pattern recognition, and team-based play. Instead of passive instruction, safety education becomes interactive, memorable, and practical.
What we needed to solve
The challenge was to make industrial fire safety training engaging, memorable, and easier to retain for frontline workers. Conventional training modules often rely on passive information delivery, making it difficult for workers to recall extinguisher classifications during real emergencies. The objective was to create a hands-on gamified learning experience that simplifies complex safety information into intuitive visual associations and quick gameplay interactions. The final solution needed to be low-cost, scalable, easy to facilitate, and effective for group-based safety learning sessions.
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What it delivered.
Interactive play improved recall of fire classes and extinguisher matching.
Encouraged team-based learning through discussion and real-time correction.
Icon-driven gameplay reduced cognitive overload and made classifications easier to remember.
“Link or Loose turned a typically overlooked safety topic into something workers actively participated in. The gameplay format made training feel engaging rather than instructional.”
