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Riddle: what it is and how to make one
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What it is
In Riddle, players fill in the letters of the answer while asking for as few hints as possible.
There are three kinds of hint, shown in this order: information boxes, a blurred image that gradually becomes clearer, and letters of the answer that are revealed. Each hint costs points.
Each riddle can have a prompt with text, audio, images or video. You can chain several riddles together in a single game.
Examples of use
- Science: chemical elements, animals or planets.
- History: figures based on hints about their era or their achievements.
- Languages: vocabulary based on images or definitions.
- Primary education: objects, animals or jobs to practise reading and writing.
- Vocational training: tools, materials or procedures based on technical hints.
How to create a Riddle with Ray
- Click Create game and select Riddle.
- Enter a topic, add instructions and/or attach a file with the content.
- Ray automatically generates a game ready to publish (with a title and description). You can review and change anything you like before publishing it.
Ray's advanced options
The gear icon gives you options to configure how Ray generates the game. Some are common to all game types:
- Output content: choose text only, or text plus automatically generated speech. Speech is capped at 1,000 characters in total per account on the Basic and Advanced plans; on the Academic plan and Commercial plan it is unlimited.
- Output language: the language of the game content. If you don't specify it, Ray detects it from the prompt or the file.
- Difficulty: easy, medium (default), hard, or a custom level (for example, “for primary school students”).
Riddle also has specific options:
- Riddles: how many to create (one by default), or as many as the content you attach contains.
- Hints per riddle: how many information hints (3 by default), or as many as the content you attach contains.
Source library
With the Sources button you can upload files to Ray (PDF, Word, images…) or select your own games for it to use as content for the new one. For example, start from the PDF of a teaching unit on the human body to generate riddles about organs.
How to create a Riddle without Ray
- Click Create game and select Riddle.
- Close the Ray window.
- Enter the prompt and the answer.
- Turn on Guess the image to add an image as the main hint (by default it appears blurred and is revealed by spending hints; turn off Image hints if you want to show it revealed from the start).
- Add as many information hints as you want. The Letter hints option is on by default: it lets the player reveal letters of the answer in exchange for points. Turn it off if you don't want to offer that help.
- Click Add Riddle if you want to chain more.
Game options
- Lives: the maximum number of mistakes allowed (unlimited by default).
- Time: the time limit to complete the game (unlimited by default).
- Accent-sensitive: counts missing accents as mistakes.
With an Advanced plan you can remove the ads, add a background image, change the visibility (Public or Hidden), configure player identification (Optional, Required or no method), hide elements of the interface (Ranking, Restart, Social media or Correct answers) and add a custom final message.
With an Academic plan you can restrict the visibility to your guests or to the integrations you create (Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas…), and remove the player identification link.
With a Commercial plan you can also customize the game with your logo and corporate footer, choose the colors and hide the Educaplay brand.
Information and publishing
On the Information tab you set up what your player will see before and during the game. Ray automatically generates the Title and Description; if you created the game without Ray, you add them yourself. Here you also choose the Language of the game interface (you can present the game to your players in any of the 27 available languages, regardless of the language of the content), set the Education level and add Tags so your game is easier to find in the search engine. Before publishing, use Preview to check that everything looks the way you want.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of hint can be used and in what order do they appear?
In this order: information hints, a blurred image that becomes clearer and, if you turn it on, letters of the answer that are revealed. Each one costs points.
Can I add images, audio or video to the hints and the prompt?
Yes, both in the prompt and in the information hints. You can also generate the voice reading automatically, with Ray or without Ray.
Can I import riddles I've already written?
Yes. Paste or attach your riddles in the Ray box or with the Sources button. Ray will turn them into a game.
Can I put more than one riddle in the same game?
Yes, with the Add Riddle button you can chain as many as you want.
Can I change the language of the game interface?
Yes. On the Information tab you can choose from the 27 available languages: Afrikaans, Aragonese, Asturian, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. The interface language is independent from the content language: you can have a game written in English and show the interface in Japanese for your Japanese students, for example.
Which features require a paid plan?
With the Advanced plan you remove the ads, add a background image, manage visibility and player identification, hide interface elements and add a final message. With the Academic plan you can also restrict access to your guests or to your integrations (Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas…). With the Commercial plan you customize the game with your logo, corporate colors and hide the Educaplay brand.
