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The Big Board — builder

Type a clue and its correct answer in any 20–25 boxes. Empty boxes stay dark.

? How to play — 30 seconds
  1. Type a clue + its answer in any box — add a picture to either by dragging one in. Empty boxes stay dark in the game.
  2. Resize the board with ＋ / ✕ column and ＋ / ✕ row — any size from 1×1 up to 5×5.
  3. Play the board: a team picks a point value and you read the clue aloud, then Show the answer and tap ✓ (+points) or ✗ (−points).
  4. When the board is cleared, the highest total takes the game.
🧭 When to use this, and what to say afterwards

Best moment: Revision, or the first ten minutes to see what survived the lecture. Familiar to everyone, so it needs no explaining.

What it looks like in different courses

  • CCGLFive categories: thinkers, dates, key terms, evidence, counter-arguments.
  • CCCHCategories by period, with the highest value reserved for interpretation.
  • CCSTOne category per lecture week, so gaps show up by topic.

Now ask them — the part that turns the game into learning

  1. Which category did the room find hardest? Why that one?
  2. Take a clue you got wrong. What was the thinking that led you there?
  3. Which of these will still matter in ten weeks, and which is trivia? Be honest.

Do not use this when: Avoid as the main event of a discussion tutorial. It rewards recall, so use it to warm up or to close, not to replace argument.

✨ Make these with AI — no typing, paste them straight in
  1. Copy the prompt below.
  2. Open any AI chat you already use, upload your slides / reading / handout, and paste the prompt.
  3. Copy the AI's whole reply and paste it in the box underneath. Your builder fills itself — then edit anything you like.
You are helping a university tutor turn course material into a classroom game.

I am uploading my course material (slides, reading or handout). Use ONLY that material and write 25 quiz clues with their correct answers, grouped into 5 categories with 5 clues each (25 in total), getting harder as the points rise.

Return plain text, ONE ITEM PER LINE, in exactly this format:
Category | Points | Clue | Answer

Two correct example lines:
Key Thinkers | 200 | This economist wrote The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith
Key Thinkers | 400 | He called religion the opium of the people | Karl Marx

Rules:
- Separate the fields with the vertical bar | and nothing else.
- One item per line. No numbering, no bullets, no headings, no commentary.
- Never use a line break inside an item.
- Keep every field short enough to read from the back of a lecture room.
- Base every item on my uploaded material, not on general knowledge.
- Points must be one of 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000 — five clues per category, one at each value.
- Group all five clues of a category together, easiest (200) first.
- The clue is what the tutor reads aloud; the answer is short — a name, term, date or one phrase.
- Put the whole answer in ONE code block so I can copy it in one click.

⚠ Before you upload anything, stop and decide what is safe to send.Never upload student IDs, student numbers, grades, marks, results, or anything that could identify a student — and never paste them into the boxes below either. Remember that what you upload may not be yours to give away: publishers' readings, textbook chapters, exam papers, colleagues' slides and material you licensed rather than wrote are usually someone else's property. Many free AI tiers keep what you send and may train on it, so read that tool's own terms first. Protect yourself — when in doubt, upload your own summary or notes instead of the original file.

CCHUWho said it, define it, spot the flaw, apply it

The PowerPoint plays anywhere — clickable board, clues and answers. The website version also keeps team scores for you.