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Ask a yes-or-no question about the characters.
One student picks a secret character and keeps it in their head. Everyone else asks anything with a yes-or-no answer — a trait you can see, a job, a hidden fact.
Boardee Arcade · Party & social
Who Is It
Ask questions to find the character.
The face-board elimination duel your students already know the rules to. Load a board of characters from your topic and the questions do the teaching.
Also known as: guess who · who am I
👥 2 Players✨ AI fills the content
- Free for teachers · students never need accounts
How to play
Narrow the board down to the secret character.
That's the goal — no rules to teach. Here's how a round of Who Is It runs.
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Rule out everyone it doesn't match.
The secret-keeper answers, and every face that contradicts the answer is crossed off the shared board with a tap — greyed out, red X, gone.
Keep narrowing until one is left.
A sharp question can halve the board. Keep narrowing until one face is left, then hit Reveal — and see if the room cracked it.
On the big screen
One screen runs the whole room
Who Is It plays off a single shared board — no devices, no join codes, no student logins. Put it on the projector and the whole class deduces together.
Whole class, hands up
One board on the projector, one student holding the secret, and the whole room asking the questions. Hands go up, faces come down.
Zero devices · zero prepTwo teams, head to head
Split the room down the middle and alternate questions — first team to name the mystery character takes the round. Insist on full sentences and it turns into speaking practice.
One board becomes a duelSmall groups at a station
Gather three or four around a tablet, let one hold the secret, and rotate. A calm, self-running station you can leave a group to run.
One shared screen · no loginsWhat can you put on the board?
Anyone — or anything — with a face
Story characters, historical figures, animals, landmarks, the water cycle. If you can name a set, AI builds a board of them — with real pictures or emoji — and the yes/no questions do the teaching.
Story characters
English🧙🐺👸🧜♀️🦸🧚
“Do they have wings?”
Animal kingdom
Science🦁🐘🦒🐍🦅🐢
“Can it fly?”
Community helpers
Early years👮👨🚒👩⚕️👨🍳👷👩🏫
“Do they fight fires?”
World landmarks
Geography🗼🗽🏯🕌🏰⛩️
“Is it in the USA?”
Mythical beasts
Myths🐉🦄🧛🧟👹🧜♀️
“Does it have a horn?”
Minibeasts
Science🐝🐜🦋🕷️🐌🐞
“Big colourful wings?”
The library
Who Is It is one shape of twenty-five
The Arcade is a library of classroom games that all drink from the same topic box. Once the board's been cracked, that same set of characters becomes a quiz, a stack of flashcards or a matching round — 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 boards and relaunch them any lesson
Three ways in
Three ways to get a Who Is It
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 Who Is It in under a minute. Check it, tweak anything, play.
Type it yourself
Every Who Is It 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?
It's built for two players — which in a classroom usually means two halves of the room taking turns to ask and eliminate.
Do students need devices?
No. This one shines on the projector: the whole class sees the board, and the questions happen out loud.
Can AI build a character board on my theme?
Yes. Ask for a themed board — story characters, historical figures, community helpers — and it's ready in under a minute.
Is it free?
Yes. Who Is It 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.