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Type a yes-or-no question — the game answers it.
No one holds the secret and keeps a straight face — the game answers each question itself, with a green Yes, a red No or an amber Kind of.
Boardee Arcade · Party & social
20 Questions
Guess it in twenty questions.
The classic guessing game where nobody has to sit in the hot seat — the game itself answers every yes-or-no question. You get to just enjoy the deducing.
Also known as: twenty questions · yes or no game
👥 2+ Players✨ AI fills the content
- Free for teachers · students never need accounts
How to play
Guess the mystery item in twenty questions or fewer.
That's the goal — no rules to teach. Here's how a round of 20 Questions runs.
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Use each answer to narrow it down.
Every answer rules something out. Twenty questions is the whole budget, so the counter drains with each ask — the class learns to spend them carefully.
Guess the item before your questions run out.
Flip to Guess the moment you’ve got it. Name it in time and the mystery flips open; let the counter hit zero and it reveals anyway.
Ways to play
One mystery, three ways to guess it
The same 20 Questions works as a front-of-class team game, a live device race, or take-home practice. Pick at press-play — nothing to rebuild.
On the big screen
Project one board and the whole class plays as a team — students call out the yes-or-no questions and the game answers on the big screen. 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 hunts the same mystery on their own screen, racing to crack it in the fewest questions.
Join code or QR · no student accountsIn their own time
Share one play link and the same mysteries become homework, a soft start or early-finisher work. Results roll in as each student finishes — solved and time, no chasing.
One link · results tracked for youWhat can be the mystery?
Anything can be the secret
A body part, a landmark, a shape in maths — if the class can picture it, the game can hide it. Type the topic; AI writes the mysteries and answers every yes-or-no question.
A body part
ScienceHeart
A landmark
GeographyEiffel Tower
A famous figure
HistoryCleopatra
A 2D shape
MathsTriangle
A mystery animal
NatureOctopus
A weather sight
WeatherRainbow
The library
20 Questions is one shape of twenty-five
The Arcade is a library of classroom games that all drink from the same topic box. Once the mystery's been cracked, the identical list becomes a quiz, a Celebrity Heads board 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 20 Questions
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 20 Questions in under a minute. Check it, tweak anything, play.
Type it yourself
Every 20 Questions 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
Who answers the questions?
The game does. AI answers each yes-or-no question about the mystery item, so no student or teacher has to hold the secret and keep a straight face.
How many students can play?
Two or more — it scales from a pair at a station to the whole class pooling its twenty questions on the projector.
Can I choose the mystery items?
Yes. Pick your own, or let AI supply mystery items that fit your topic and grade level in under a minute.
Do students need devices?
No. It runs happily on the projector with the class asking aloud; a single device also works for small groups.
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.