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Unscramble Letters: what it is and how to make one
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What it is
In Unscramble Letters, words appear with their letters scrambled and players have to put them in the right order. Each letter is clicked or dragged into place, or you can play by typing.
Each word can be accompanied by a prompt with text, an image, audio or video.
If what you want is to order words within a sentence, the game you need is Unscramble Words.
Examples of use
- Languages: vocabulary based on definitions or translations.
- Language and literature: correct spelling of difficult words, technical terms or new vocabulary.
- Science: scientific terms based on definitions or clues.
- Primary education: spelling and literacy.
- Vocational training: specific technical terminology.
How to create an Unscramble Letters with Ray
- Click Create game and select Unscramble Letters.
- 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”).
Unscramble Letters also has a specific option:
- Words: how many to create (8 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, generate an Unscramble Letters with new vocabulary from the PDF of a teaching unit, or turn a Word Search Puzzle into an Unscramble Letters.
How to create an Unscramble Letters without Ray
- Click Create game and select Unscramble Letters.
- Close the Ray window.
- Type each word in the correct order. The game scrambles the letters automatically in each game.
The “word” can be a single one or a set of words (for example, a film title). You can accompany it with a prompt — as instructions, a clue or a description — with text, an image, audio or video.
Game options
- Lives: the maximum number of mistakes (unlimited by default).
- Time: the time limit to unscramble each word (unlimited by default).
- Random order: if you have more than one word, show them in random order. By default they appear in the editor's order.
- Accented spelling: in typing mode, count incorrect accents as mistakes. By default it doesn't take them into account.
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
Is there a game for reordering words in a sentence?
Yes, it's Unscramble Words.
Can I create a game with several words?
Yes. With the Add word button you can add as many as you want; each word can be a single one or a set of words (like “Million Dollar Baby”).
Can I import a word list I already have?
Yes. Paste or attach your list in the Ray box or with the Sources button.
Can I add images or audio to the prompts?
Yes. The prompt that accompanies each word accepts text, audio and images, as well as automatically generated speech.
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.
