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Read the emoji clue.
Each puzzle is a little rebus — a string of emojis standing in for a word or phrase. Sound them out and mash the parts together.
Boardee Arcade · Party & social
Guessmoji
Decode the emoji puzzle.
Emoji riddles on the big screen — the fastest brain break in the building. Thirty seconds in, someone is shouting a book title and they're almost right.
Also known as: emoji quiz · guess the emoji · emoji charades
👥 Whole class✨ AI fills the content
- Free for teachers · students never need accounts
How to play
Work out the word or phrase from the emojis.
That's the goal — no rules to teach. Here's how a round of Guessmoji runs.
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Type the word or phrase it stands for.
Type your best guess and press Check. Nail it and the tiles sweep green; miss and it just shakes and waves you on — nothing to lose by shouting one out.
Solve each puzzle to move on.
Crack one and the next riddle deals straight in. A round is a set of puzzles, so it fills a five-minute brain break or a whole lesson of review.
Ways to play
One round, three ways to play it
The same Guessmoji works as a front-of-class brain break, a live device round, or take-home practice. Pick at press-play — nothing to rebuild.
On the big screen
Project one riddle and the whole class shouts guesses at it — no devices, no join codes, no setup. The fastest brain break in the building, and everyone plays at once.
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 gets the same riddles and types their answers in, so the quiet kids get a look-in too.
Join code or QR · no student accountsIn their own time
Share one play link and the same round becomes a soft start, an early-finisher station or homework. Results roll in as each student finishes — riddles cracked and time, no chasing.
One link · results tracked for youWhat can you decode?
Anything with a name is a riddle
Spelling words, class novels, science terms, capital cities — if it has a name, emojis can hint at it. Type the topic; AI writes the puzzles.
Class novels
English🐷🕸️
Charlotte's Web
Unit vocabulary
Science💧🔁
Water cycle
Countries
Geography🧊🏔️
Iceland
Key events
History🌕🚀
Moon landing
Song titles
Music⭐⭐🌙
Twinkle Twinkle
Movie night
Movies🦖🌴
Jurassic Park
The library
Guessmoji is one shape of twenty-five
The Arcade is a library of classroom games that all drink from the same topic box. When the riddles have been cracked, the identical topic becomes a quiz, a crossword or a matching game — same content, 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 Guessmoji
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 Guessmoji in under a minute. Check it, tweak anything, play.
Type it yourself
Every Guessmoji 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
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
How does the class play?
Project the emoji clue and take shouted guesses, or have students join from their own devices and type answers — whichever energy level your afternoon needs.
Do students need devices?
No. It's built for the projector; devices with a join code are optional when you want individual answers on record.
Can AI write puzzles on my topic?
Yes. Ask for emoji puzzles about your unit, class novels, or vocabulary and it writes a round in under a minute — or author your own.
Is it free?
Yes. Guessmoji is included on Boardee's free tier with every other game type.
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 party & social
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.