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Six game modes, one classroom platform.

Pick the format that fits the lesson. Every mode supports teams, sounds, media, and analytics — so you focus on teaching, not running the game.

🎯Quiz Board🎤Face-Off Survey🔔Buzz-In⚡Lightning Round🏆Tournament🎡Randomizer Wheel
🎯 Quiz Board

Pick a category, win the points.

The classic 5×5 trivia board. Teams pick a category and point value, the question reveals, and the host awards points to whoever answers correctly.

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    Team in control picks a category and dollar value (lower = easier).
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    Click the tile to flip it — the question fills the screen.
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    Tap the team that answers correctly to award points (or 'wrong' to deduct).
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    Control passes to the team that scored. Repeat until the board is empty.
Best for
Reviewing a unit with mixed-difficulty content. Great as a midterm or unit-end review.
Teacher tip
Set categories around misconceptions you saw on the last quiz — turn weak spots into the most-played tiles.
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🎤 Face-Off Survey

Top answers win the round.

Survey-style face-off. A prompt appears with 6 hidden top answers; teams race to guess the highest-point answers before getting 3 strikes.

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    Read the prompt aloud (e.g. 'Name a part of a plant cell').
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    Team A guesses. If correct, the tile flips and they keep guessing.
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    A wrong guess = a strike. After 3 strikes the other team can steal.
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    Round ends when all answers are revealed or one team steals.
Best for
Brainstorm-friendly topics, opinion questions, vocabulary, lists.
Teacher tip
Use it on day one of a unit to surface what students already know — the wrong guesses tell you what to teach.
Name a part of a plant cell
Mitochondria32
Nucleus28
Ribosome18
Cell wall12
Vacuole6
Golgi4
🔔 Buzz-In

First team to buzz answers.

Rapid Q&A. Question shows, first team to buzz answers. Wrong answers lock that team out so the others can steal.

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    Question appears on the big screen.
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    Teams tap their buzzer button (or use phones via Player-Device mode).
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    First buzz wins the chance. Mark correct = points; wrong = locked out, next team can buzz.
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    When all teams are locked or someone is correct, reveal and move on.
Best for
Fact recall, vocabulary, math facts, anything with a single right answer.
Teacher tip
Turn on 'Open room for player devices' to let students buzz from their phones — way more engaging than shouting.
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
⚡ Lightning Round

Race the clock.

Each team gets the timer and rips through as many questions as possible. Most correct wins the round.

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    Pick the team that's up. Hit Start — clock counts down.
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    Read questions as fast as you can; tap Correct or Skip.
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    When time's up, the next team gets the same time.
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    Compare scores at the end.
Best for
Vocabulary drills, math facts, definition recall — anything with snappy answers.
Teacher tip
Pre-warn teams of the topic so they can strategize who fields it. Adds a teamwork dimension.
0:42
✓ 14 correct
↻ 3 skipped
🏆 Tournament

Bracket-style showdown.

Bracket-style elimination. Two teams face the same question; faster correct answer advances. Winner takes the trophy.

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    Pair teams into a bracket (auto-seeded on team setup).
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    Each round shows one question to both teams.
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    First correct answer advances. Loser is out.
  4. 4
    Final pair plays for the trophy.
Best for
End-of-unit celebrations, friendly head-to-head review, special events.
Teacher tip
Make the final question worth a small reward (homework pass, line leader for the week) — engagement spikes hard.
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🎡 Randomizer Wheel

Spin to choose.

A spinning randomizer wheel. Use it for random team selection, mystery bonus points, or as a chooser between mini-rounds.

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    Configure wheel segments — labels, colors, optional question + points.
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    Spin. Wheel lands on a segment.
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    Award the points or read the question shown.
Best for
Breaking ties, picking who goes next, mystery bonus rounds, just-for-fun energy boosts.
Teacher tip
Mix high-value segments with a 'Lose 100' or 'Free spin' for tension — it's the unpredictability that makes it fun.

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