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Drag each item onto the group it belongs to.
Every item starts in the tray — drag it onto the group it belongs to. A round runs a handful of buckets across the board.
Boardee Arcade · Quiz & recall
Sorting
Drag items into the right group.
Drag it into the right bucket — the simplest way to make categorical thinking visible. You'll spot the misconception the moment something lands in the wrong group.
Also known as: category sort · grouping game
👥 1–4 Players✨ AI fills the content
- Free for teachers · students never need accounts
How to play
Sort every item into the correct group.
That's the goal — no rules to teach. Here's how a round of Sorting runs.
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Or tap an item, then tap its bucket.
Tap works everywhere the drag does: tap the item, then tap its bucket, so a finger on the touchboard is as good as a mouse.
Submit to check them all at once.
Nothing locks as you go, so a card can be argued over and moved between groups — then one Submit scores the whole board at once.
Ways to play
One set of groups, three ways to run it
The same Sorting round works as a front-of-class game, a live device round, or take-home practice. Pick at press-play — nothing to rebuild.
On the big screen
Project one board and the whole class sorts it together — students call out where each item goes while you (or the kid whose turn it is) drags. No devices, no setup, 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 sorts the same set on their own screen, scored on how many land in the right group.
Join code or QR · no student accountsIn their own time
Share one play link and the same round becomes homework, revision or early-finisher work. Results roll in as each student finishes — score and time, no chasing.
One link · results tracked for youWhat can you sort?
Anything that falls into groups
Living or non-living, prime or composite, fact or opinion — if it splits into groups, it's a Sorting round. Type the topic; AI writes the buckets and fills them with items.
Living or non-living
ScienceOak tree
LivingNon-living
Prime or composite
Maths15
PrimeComposite
Fact or opinion
EnglishCats rule
FactOpinion
Physical or human
GeographyCity
PhysicalHuman
Primary or secondary
HistoryDiary entry
PrimarySecondary
le or la
Languagessoleil
lela
The library
Sorting is one shape of twenty-five
The Arcade is a library of classroom games that all drink from the same topic box. When the groups have been sorted, the identical content becomes a quiz, a matching game or a set of flashcards — 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 Sorting
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 Sorting in under a minute. Check it, tweak anything, play.
Type it yourself
Every Sorting 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 four players per round. Small groups at a device work well, and it makes a strong whole-class projector activity with students directing the drags.
Do students need devices?
No. Projector-only works fine; devices with a join code or play link are there when you want everyone sorting at once.
Can AI create the groups for my topic?
Yes. Name the topic and grade and it builds the buckets and items in under a minute — living and non-living, noun or verb, primary and secondary sources.
Is it free?
Yes. Sorting 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 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.