Etymonopoly

Etymonopoly is a free, print-and-play board game designed for language enthusiasts, created by Ryan Starkey of Starkey Comics. Inspired by the classic Monopoly game, Etymonopoly replaces traditional properties with languages, and currency with "words." Players aim to collect languages and build reconstructions, ultimately striving to reconstruct Proto-Indo-European to win the game.

The game includes a board, cards, banknotes, and rules, all available as downloadable PDFs. It features linguistic humor and references, making it both educational and entertaining. The design and development were enhanced by graphic designer Antti Hukkanen, who helped transform the initial concept into a fully playable game.

https://starkeycomics.com/2025/01/16/etymonopoly/

Infinite craft by @nealagarwal

Neal Agarwal is known for creating interactive and creative web experiences. His projects often involve unique and engaging visualizations, animations, and interactive elements. Neal Agarwal has launched what he calls the first version of Infinite Craft, a procrastination game that involves combining elements in pairs to create new ones. Simply drag what is on the right side onto the main screen, overlapping what you want to combine. The fun part is that the effect is cumulative, and the newly created can be recombined to add more and more objects.

Although you start with basic elements like water, fire, and wind, soon others like plants, trees, and sand appear, and gradually, more elaborate and specific versions can be created, such as cacti, flowers, or cigarettes. According to Agarwal himself, there are more than 20,000 combinations.

https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ 

Semantris. Engage in AI-powered word association games

Play word association games with the help of semantic search. When you provide a clue, the AI examines all the words in play and selects the ones it believes are most closely related. Since the AI was trained on diverse conversational text, it can make various types of associations.

In Semantris' Arcade mode, the AI organizes the list, placing the most related words at the bottom. For instance, in the example given, it suggests that "Moon" is a more fitting response to "Sun" than "Teacher."

Semantris operates similarly to other word association games, where a person offers clues to assist their teammate in guessing the correct words. The unique aspect is that, in Semantris, you provide hints to an AI. As the AI might respond in unexpected ways, it's beneficial to experiment with different types of clues to understand its thought process and achieve the highest scores. Try using slang, technical terms, pop culture references, synonyms, antonyms, and even complete sentences.

https://research.google.com/semantris/

Life stats Neal Agarwal @nealagarwal

Neal Agarwal's project "Life Stats" is a captivating and thought-provoking experience that provides a unique perspective on various aspects of life. The interactive website takes mundane yet essential statistics and transforms them into engaging visualizations that highlight the passage of time and the scale of different activities.

https://neal.fun/life-stats/ 

Prepositions of Movement Game 1

Waffle

Recurso proporcionado por la Junta de Castilla y León que ofrece un panel a modo de sopa de letras y propone buscar en un tiempo determinado la mayor puntuación, a través de un número más elevado de palabras encontradas y una valoración más alta de cada letra.

Permite la posibilidad de jugar además de en inglés, la primera opción, en alemán, español, francés, italiano y portugués.

Juego de apariencia bastante sencilla pero interesante para la competición.

http://www.educa.jcyl.es/educacyl/cm/gallery/Recursos%20Infinity/aplicaciones/19_secundaria_waffle/index.html

Map Puzzle

Educational cartographic online puzzles. You can complete maps of the world, countries and regions by dragging them into their proper places on a map. 

You can also share your results on social networks 

Find it on:

http://mappuzzle.xyz/

LingYourLanguage

LingYourLanguage is a collaborative effort to bring the world’s languages to a wider audience in an entertaining, engaging way. In this game you listen to a short snippet of someone speaking and then guess what language is being spoken. You can play alone or with a friend (mode Multiplayer).

The project began at a hostel in Prague, Czech Republic, where visitors began contributing their languages to the LingYourLanguage collection. It soon spread to family, friends, acquaintances, friends of friends, and so on, and links together people and cultures. 

Find it on:

https://lingyourlanguage.com/

An Alphabet Game via @tistaramos

Game created using Genial.ly by Bautista Ramos @tistaramos. It is based on a template by @sandboxeduca.

The contestants compete to answer sets of questions, whose answers each start with a different letter from A to Z in order. 

It focuses on the celebration of International Women's Day and the contributions of different women throughout history in the most diverse fields of knowledge.

Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition

Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition is an educational nutrition game that will help teach students about building healthy meals while using nutritional guidelines from countries around the world! 

Play it on:

https://ssec.si.edu/pick-your-plate 

Toy Theater

Collection of interactive educational math, literacy, and art games for your elementary classrooom.

Founded in 2001 by Joel Gaspar, an artist and designer, it offers free accessible and high quality  activities that integrate the learning into the game play

Find Toy Theater on:

https://toytheater.com/ 

World Geography Games

Educational quiz games for kids, students, adults and seniors to test and improve their geographical knowledge. 

It includes questions about all the countries and continents. Free teaching resource useful for teachers in primary and secondary school

Visit:

https://world-geography-games.com/ 

Educandy

If you are looking to create interactive learning games, Educandy is an interesting tool to develop engaging activities very easily.

There are 8 types of games you can generate. They can be played on individual computers, tablets via the Educandy app as well as on the interactive whiteboard. You can even embed the games into your own website if you want to.

Visit Educandy:

https://www.educandy.com/

Educandy

With Educandy you can generate 8 types of engaging activities in minutes. You enter your words, questions and answers and this service turns your content into interactive games.

You can also share those games through a unique code that is generated when you create the activities.

https://www.educandy.com/

On Twitter @educandydotcom

https://twitter.com/educandydotcom

On Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/educandydotcom

App on GooglePlay

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.educandy.student

App on the App Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/educandy/id1436579473

WikiWhere

This game is designed to test your knowledge about major cities and their geographical location. Players are given snippets of a Wikipedia article describing a location. Players guess the answer by placing a pin on a 3D globe.

Visit it on:

https://wiki-where.github.io/

Factitious

Developed by the American University Game Lab and the American University’s School of Communication, Factitious is a game for testing your skill at identifying fake news stories.

To play it you read articles and swipe right or left to indicate whether or not you think the article is a real news story.

There are different game levels to play based on reading levels.

Tutorial:

https://medium.com/@bobhone.designer/how-to-play-the-factitious-2018-news-game-9969aaa8f2a7

Website

http://factitious.augamestudio.com/#/