Type your topic
"The water cycle, Year 5" is all the Arcade needs — it fills your Categories with real content in seconds.
Boardee Arcade · Quiz & recall
Categories
Group answers under the right heading.
Sixteen words, four hidden groups, and a class suddenly debating taxonomy like it matters. It's the Connections moment, built from your unit.
Also known as: NYT Connections · connections
👥 1–4 Players ✨ AI fills the content
- Free for teachers · students never need accounts
The Arcade
Topic to podium in three steps
Check the content
Skim, edit or reroll anything before the class sees it. You stay the teacher; the AI stays the intern.
Press play
Run it big on the board, or let students join from their own devices with a code and a name.
How to play
Find the hidden groups of four.
That's the goal — no rules to teach. Here's how a round of Categories runs.
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Every word secretly belongs to one group.
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Tap four that share a link, then submit.
Solve all the groups before your guesses run out.
Built for the classroom
AI fills it. You press play.
Every Arcade game starts from the same box: type what you're teaching and the content writes itself — questions, words, clues — ready for the board at the front of the room.
- Real content on your topic and grade, in under a minute
- Big type and chunky buttons, readable from the back row
- Students join with a code and a name — no accounts, ever
25
Game types in the Arcade — one topic box fills them all
60s
From typing a topic to pressing play
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Student accounts — a code and a first name is the whole login
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Steps every time: type it, check it, play it
I typed 'the water cycle' and had a class quiz in ten seconds flat. It's the first tool my whole department adopted.
FAQ
Good to know
Is this like NYT Connections?
Yes — the same find-the-hidden-groups puzzle your students already play, except the groups come from your unit. Guesses are limited, so every submit is a commitment.
How many students can play?
One to four players per puzzle, and it's a superb whole-class projector activity — take nominations, demand justifications, then submit.
Do students need devices?
No. Projector-only is the classic way to run it; devices with a code or play link work for individual or small-group rounds.
Can AI build a puzzle on my topic?
Yes. Give it a topic and grade and it writes the sixteen words and four groups in under a minute — you can tweak any of them.
Do students need accounts?
Never. Students join with a code and a name — no emails, no passwords. Teachers don't need an account to try it either.
Same box, different shape
More quiz & recall
Same three steps, different game. Type a topic and pick your shape.
What are you teaching tomorrow?
Type it in, check the content, press play. The Arcade does the rest.