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Link touching letters to spell a word.
Any two letters that touch — sideways, down, or diagonally — can join. Drag or tap a chain of them and the path lights up as it links.
Boardee Arcade · Word games
Grid Words
Spell words from a grid of letters.
Three minutes of total silence, then an eruption of list-comparing. It's the Boggle moment every English teacher knows, minus the plastic tray.
Also known as: boggle · word find
👥 1–8 Players✨ AI fills the content
- Free for teachers · students never need accounts
How to play
Find as many words as you can before time runs out.
That's the goal — no rules to teach. Here's how a round of Grid Words runs.
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Longer words score more points.
Three letters bank a point; stretch the same chain to six and it counts for far more. The board rewards the long shots.
Find all you can before the timer ends.
The clock is the whole game. When it runs out every list is counted — then run it best-of-three and watch the scores climb.
Ways to play
One grid, three ways to hunt it
The same Grid Words board works as a front-of-class hunt, a live device race, or take-home practice. Pick at press-play — nothing to rebuild.
On the big screen
Project one grid and the whole class — or table teams — hunt it together. Tables scribble their lists, then the finds go up on the shared board while the room argues the long ones. No devices, no codes.
Zero devices · zero prepLive on their devices
Students go to boardee.app/join and type the six-digit code — phones, tablets, chromebooks, any browser. Everyone races the same grid on their own screen, scored on the words they link before the timer.
Join code or QR · no student accountsIn their own time
Share one play link and the same grid becomes homework, a soft start or early-finisher work. Results roll in as each student finishes — words found and time, no chasing.
One link · results tracked for youWhat can you spell?
Every topic hides a grid of words
Type what you're teaching and AI seeds a grid stacked with its vocabulary. The class links touching letters — across, down, diagonally, turning corners — and the longer the word, the bigger the score.
This week's list
SpellingFRYRZIEZYRNDRZYR
FRIEND+3 pts
Unit vocabulary
SciencePZYRZLRZYRANRZTE
PLANET+3 pts
French words
LanguagesTQEMQCRQPIQPTQPT
MERCI+2 pts
Landforms
GeographyTQTAQLTQETQPDQPT
DELTA+2 pts
Ancient Egypt
HistoryEGPTQYTQPPTPTQPT
EGYPT+2 pts
Shape names
MathsRPPTIPTQPSMPTQPT
PRISM+2 pts
The library
Grid Words is one shape of twenty-five
The Arcade is a library of classroom games that all drink from the same topic box. When the grid's been picked clean, the identical word list becomes a crossword, a Wordee round or a matching game — same topic, new game, zero re-typing.
- 25 game types, from quiz shows to word puzzles
- One topic box fills any of them in under a minute
- Save your rounds and relaunch them any lesson
Three ways in
Three ways to get a Grid Words
Ready-made from the Discover shelves, AI-built from your topic, or typed by hand — every door ends at the same play button.
Grab one ready-made
Search the Discover shelves — curated games plus rounds shared by other teachers. Find one that fits and press play.
Ask AI to build it
Type what you're teaching and the Arcade writes your Grid Words in under a minute. Check it, tweak anything, play.
Type it yourself
Every Grid Words has a plain editor underneath — your exact list, row by row, no AI in the loop.
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 — skim, edit or reroll before the class sees it
- Big type and chunky buttons, readable from the back row
- Students join with a code and a name — no accounts, ever
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Game types in the Arcade — one topic box fills them all
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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
How many students can play?
One to eight players per round. Students join from their own devices with a code, or you project one grid and tables hunt on paper before the big compare.
Do students need devices?
Only for individual scoring. On the projector it works beautifully as a whole-class or table-team game — everyone hunts the same grid.
How does scoring work?
Link touching letters to spell words before the timer ends — longer words score more. Stuck players can reveal a hint word if you allow it.
Is it free?
Yes. Grid Words, like every game type, is included on the free tier.
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 word games
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.