Jeopardy
The quiz board every classroom knows: category columns, points down the rows, and one clue behind every cell. Run it from a host console, let players buzz in from their phones, or share it for solo play.
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Classroom games your class asks to play again.
Make a game from your own lesson in minutes: a crossword for the vocabulary list, a quiz that explains every answer, bingo for the last ten minutes. Play it on the board, in teams or on every pupil's device, and see who got stuck where.
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Classroom games to make from your own lesson
Fun classroom games for any subject: quick ones for the last ten minutes, group games for revision, and interactive games every pupil plays on their own device. Each one starts from your own words or questions, so it fits the lesson you are teaching.
Quiz
Questions to pick, judge, type or recall from memory, as practice or as a test.
Bingo
Create your own bingo game online: your items, win patterns and prizes — you call, the class plays.
Wheel of fortune
Fill a wheel of fortune with your own names, tasks or questions and spin it to pick one at random.
Crossword puzzle
Add your words and clues, and the crossword grid builds as you type. Play it online, share it or print it.
Hangman
Guess your own words and phrases, one letter at a time.
Matching game
Create an online matching game: cards of text, image or audio that players drag into place beside their match — or join with a line.
Memory
Create a memory game online: classic pairs to flip and match, made from any mix of text, image and audio cards.
Word search
Add your words, choose their directions and watch the word search take shape. Play it online, share it or print it.
How your class plays it
On the board at the front
Jeopardy, the wheel of fortune and bingo run from one screen: you host, the class answers out loud.
On their own devices
Put a six-digit PIN on the board. Pupils type it on the join page and land in the activity, without an account.
In teams
Answers sync across the team in real time, so the whole group sees its progress at once. On a paid plan.
As a live challenge
Two players, one puzzle, live progress bars: the first to finish wins. On a paid plan.
Why it fits
Why teachers use it
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Your content, any subject
Type a word list or a set of questions once and play it as a crossword, flash cards or a quiz. Pictures, audio, Arabic or Korean: the content is yours.
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See who got stuck where
Results show every answer a pupil gave, not just a score, and the scores can go to Google Classroom or to your school's LMS.
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Safe to hand to a class
No ads and no third-party cookies, and pupils play without an account. On a paid plan your data can stay in the EU.
Features and integrations
It works with the systems your school already has
Each of these comes with every paid plan, unless it says otherwise.
Gradebook sync Scores go to Google Classroom, or to your LMS over LTI. Puzzel LMS Courses that mix activities, documents and video, with classes or groups and progress per learner. On the School, Trainer and Academy plans. Who did what One overview of every player across all the activities in a folder. Single sign-on (SSO) People sign in with the account their organisation already gives them, over OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0. On the School, Ambassador, Trainer and Academy plans. Your AI assistant Ask your assistant for a crossword or a quiz in the chat, and it is saved in your account with a link to share. Free, on any plan. Data region Keep your account's data in the EU or in the US.
82 ideas
For the lesson, the revision and the last ten minutes
Each one is a real activity: play it the way your players will, then copy it to your account and make it yours.
Self-paced practice
33 Crossword puzzle
Vocabulary crossword
Terms and definitions, laid out for you. The classic review, and answers are still there when they come back.
Crossword puzzle
Arabic crossword with vowel marks
The grid runs right to left for Arabic, Hebrew or Persian. For Arabic, the harakat are part of the answer.
Crossword puzzle
Korean crossword puzzle
Hangul answers with English clues, one syllable per square. Players type with their own Korean keyboard or pick from the word bank.
Flash cards
Type before you turn
The card asks for the answer before it shows it. Recognising a word and producing it are different skills.
Strands
Theme of the week
A board full of letters, a riddle for a theme, and one word that runs from edge to edge and ties it together.
Wordle
Word of the day
Five letters, six guesses, a clue from the lesson, and a result they can share without spoiling it.
Hangman
Hangman with your own list
Put in the class register, the new starters or this week’s spelling words. The familiar game, with words that mean something to the room.
Matching game
Match with drawn lines
Terms on the left, meanings on the right, and a line to join each pair. A wrong line refuses to stick.
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Match across three columns
A picture, the new word and the word they already know, lined up in one row. A row counts only when all three belong together.
Categorize
Sort it into boxes
Each card is confirmed the moment it lands, so a mistake gets corrected while they still remember why they made it.
Fill in the gap
Cloze with a shrinking word bank
The small words are missing, and the bank gets shorter with every gap that comes right.
Parts of speech
Noun, verb or adjective?
Drag a label onto each word of a sentence. Each one is confirmed as it lands.
Sequencing game
Build the timeline
Cards in a column, dragged into order and checked all at once, so the order cannot be nudged into place.
Interactive video
Questions inside a video
A short lesson video that stops to ask what just happened. Get it wrong and you can watch that part again.
Map quiz
Find the continents and oceans
The seven continents and five oceans on a blank world map. A name is shown, and players click where it is.
Map quiz
Flags of Europe
Fifteen European flags, one at a time. Players click the country each flag belongs to on a blank map of Europe.
Times tables
Colour in the times tables
The 2, 5 and 10 times tables as a grid with a hidden picture. Every right answer paints part of a rocket, and a finished grid earns a diploma.
Spelling test
Dictation sentences
Short sentences read aloud, each built around one spelling pattern. Pupils write every sentence word by word, check it when they are done, and hear it up to three times.
A to Z quiz
Animals from A to Z
An animal for every letter of the alphabet, answered round a ring against the clock. Pass a letter and it comes back on the next lap; the animals nobody got show at the end.
Word scramble
Anagram warm-up
Nine jumbled words to start the lesson, with a definition behind every question mark for whoever gets stuck.
Sequencing game
Sentence builder
Shuffled words, dragged back into the one order that is grammatical. Each sentence is checked on its own.
Flash cards
Self-paced study deck
Two-sided cards with no clock and no auto-advance. They turn each one when they are ready.
Flash cards
Face-down card board
Every card dealt face down at once and opened in any order. Revision that feels like a game show wall.
Typing practice
Keyboarding lesson
Ten lines from the home row to full sentences, with speed and the pressed key shown as they type.
Sudoku
Mini sudoku
A 4 × 4 grid with one solution, and each number confirmed as it goes in. Sudoku for ages five and up.
Logic puzzle
Science fair logic puzzle
Four pupils, four projects, four time slots. Seven clues, one answer, worked out one cross at a time on the grid.
Logic puzzle
Planets fact grid
Five planets, their place from the Sun, what they are known for and the god they are named after. Every row is true: what pupils know fills the grid, three clues help with the rest.
Guess who
Animal classification game
Eleven animals from the five vertebrate groups, one secret card each. Players ask whether it is a mammal, can fly or eats meat, turn down what no longer fits, and the first to name the other's animal wins.
Guess who
Mystery shape
Eleven 2D shapes, one secret card each. Players ask about straight sides, right angles, equal sides, parallel sides and symmetry until only one shape can be the other player's.
Shapes & positions
Rules as words or pictures
Drag shapes onto a board until every rule is true. One setting turns the written rules into pictures for pre-readers.
Advent calendar
Riddle of the day
A wall of doors with a riddle on every door. Solve it and the door opens onto the answer and a fun fact: open one each morning as a class routine.
Advent calendar
Kindness challenge
A kindness challenge for the class: twenty doors, each with one small kind act to do at school or at home. Open a door, do the task and tick it off as done.
Advent calendar
Christmas countdown
Count down to Christmas Eve with a door a day: 24 doors, each with how Christmas is celebrated somewhere else in the world, from Sinterklaas to the Yule Lads.
Higher stakes
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Secret-message word search
The grid has no spare letters. The cells left over spell a message, and typing it finishes the puzzle.
Acrostic
Key-term acrostic
One answer per row, and one marked column that spells the word the lesson is about.
Crossword puzzle
Graduation crossword
A crossword about the graduate: five years of lectures, deadlines and flatmates as clues, and marked cells that spell a message for them.
Arithmetic sums
Sums that spell a sentence
Every answer is a letter. Get the sums right and the message writes itself across the top.
Arithmetic sums
First sums with a secret message
Seven little sums with no number bigger than 5. Every answer is a letter, and together they spell a short sentence.
Fallen phrase
Quote of the week
The letters have dropped out of their columns. Put them back and a line worth remembering reads across the board.
Rebus
Proverbs in pictures
Five proverbs written as a rebus. Change a letter under a picture, or say it out loud, and the saying reads back word by word.
Cryptogram
Symbol cipher
Every letter is a little picture. A treasure-hunt note that even new readers want to crack.
Word search Premium
Shaped word search
The grid is cut to the shape of a picture: a heart, a star, your logo. The words hide inside the outline.
From a picture
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Picture sudoku
The same logic with pictures instead of digits: one of each in every row, column and box.
Jigsaw puzzle
Photo jigsaw
Any picture cut into pieces: organic shapes, a tray to sort them in, and pieces that stay together once they fit.
Mystery picture
Ancient Rome mystery picture
Nine questions about Ancient Rome, each one revealing a piece of a hidden picture. Players can guess the picture at any moment, and the fewer pieces they needed, the higher their score.
Sliding puzzle
Numbered sliding puzzle
The classic 3 × 3, with a number on every tile so beginners can see where each one belongs. It is how the type arrives.
Sliding puzzle
Pycto puzzle
The Pycto-style picture puzzle. Every piece of the photo is on the board, just in the wrong place. No gap, no numbers: players swap two pieces at a time until the picture is whole.
Memory
Picture–word pairs
One card shows the picture, its partner the word. First vocabulary, in any language you type.
I have, who has
Animal facts loop
Every card holds an animal and asks for the next one by a fact. Find the picture that answers, and the chain grows until it loops back to the start.
Memory
Calm memory for little ones
Slow flips, no shake on a miss, and found pairs stay on the board. The same game with the pressure taken out.
Crossword puzzle Premium
Picture-clue crossword
The clues are pictures. For language learners and young readers, with the first letter of every word filled in.
Shapes & positions Premium
Prepositions with your own pictures
Swap the shapes for your own pictures and the rules turn into sentences: the cat in the box, the dog behind the tree. Children build each one on the board.
Label the diagram
Drag labels onto a diagram
Your picture, a socket on each part, and a tray of names to drag into place. Anatomy, maps, machines.
Label the diagram
Type what each pin marks
Numbered pins on the picture and a blank for each. A word bank keeps spelling from being the test.
Label the diagram
Dots for the small parts
A small dot marks the exact spot, for parts a numbered square would cover: a chain, a spoke, a valve.
Hidden objects
Find-it scene
A busy picture and a strip of cut-out pieces to find in it. A short freeze after a wrong click keeps guessing honest.
Hidden objects Premium
Find it from the word
The clue is a word, not a cut-out: find la chaise, l’horloge, le livre. A picture dictionary they have to walk around in.
Name them all Premium
Recall from a picture
A picture sets the scene and empty slots wait: the colours of the rainbow, the parts of a cell, the countries on a map.
Trails and escapes
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Treasure map trail
Your picture, a pin per riddle, and a route that draws itself as each step is solved.
Maze
Quiz maze
Every room asks a question and every answer is a door. The maze walks them to the next room, so the thinking is the hard part.
Maze
Maze in the dark
They see only the corridors they have walked. The questions are gates, and the way through has to be found.
Keypad
The lock on the last door
A keypad that opens to one code. Put the clue anywhere you like: in the instructions, in another activity, or on a note under a chair.
Cryptogram
The coded note
A message in cipher that tells them where to go next. One station of an escape room, or the whole of it.
Scavenger hunt
Escape room chain
Six locks, and the code for each is hidden inside another activity. Three wrong guesses freeze the lock.
Mystery picture
Classroom code hunt
Hide codes on cards around the room. Each code players find reveals a piece of a hidden picture, and a wrong code freezes the piece for a little while.
Live in the room
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Fair name picker
Everybody comes up once before anybody comes up twice. Cold-calling without the dread, and without the favourites.
Board game
Race to the finish
A winding board of question tiles, shortcuts and setbacks. Play it alone, against a friend, or as the lesson’s last ten minutes.
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Collect them all
Win by gathering, not by arriving: move in either direction, land on the items, trade at the bank.
Board game
One screen, six players
Type the names, pass the mouse. A board game for the beamer at the end of an away-day.
Bingo Needs a host
Classroom bingo
You call, they play on their own screens, and every card is different. Three rounds to win: corners, a row, the full card.
Bingo Needs a host
Definition bingo
You read out the meaning and they find the word. No numbers on the squares, so the only way to play is to listen.
Bingo Needs a host
Find someone who…
Nobody calls anything. People mark their own squares as they meet each other, and can see how the room is doing.
Bingo Needs a host
Car bingo for road trips
Things to spot out of the window, in pictures, so the youngest can play too. Nobody calls anything, and everyone in the car sees the other cards fill up.
Jeopardy Needs a host
Classroom game show
You run the board from your screen, teams answer out loud, and a wrong answer costs. Steals included.
Jeopardy Needs a host
Phones as buzzers
Everyone joins with a name and their phone becomes the buzzer. The clue shows on their own screen, so it works remotely too.
Quartets Needs a host
Quartets for a room
The card game of collecting fours, dealt to three players. In learn mode every card carries the fact that identifies it.
Team training
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Solo study board
A Jeopardy board each person works alone. A clue loses value while it is read, so knowing it fast scores more.
Quiz
A quiz that teaches
Every answer comes with its reason, right or wrong. People leave knowing why, not just what.
Categorize
Find the four groups
Sixteen cards, four hidden groups, and words that seem to belong in two places. A five-minute icebreaker that starts arguments.
Plans
Start free, then pick a teacher or a school plan
The free plan holds two activities and has every activity type. A teacher plan removes the activity limit and adds results, embedding and your own branding. The School plan gives five teachers a shared library, Puzzel LMS and single sign-on.
Teacher €30 / year
- 600 player sessions / month
- Unlimited activities
- Results tracking
- White-label embedding
- AI question generation
School €125 / year
For a team of teachers who share activities and follow their students
- 5,000 player sessions / month
- 5 teacher accounts included
- A shared library: teachers share activities and courses, and copy each other’s
- Puzzel LMS: courses, classes and progress per student
- Single sign-on (SSO) over OpenID Connect or SAML
- Add teachers as you grow
Questions
Do my pupils need an account?
No. They open the link and play. If you want results per pupil, a paid plan lets the activity ask who they are, or lets them sign in with the school's own accounts on the School plan.
Can I try it before the school pays?
Yes. The free plan has every activity type and room for two activities, with no card needed. When you upgrade, everything you made comes with you.
Does it work with Google Classroom, Moodle or Canvas?
Yes. On every paid plan, scores can go to Google Classroom, or to Moodle, Canvas and other school systems over LTI 1.3.
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