Christmas Say What?!

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Christmas Say What?! – Interactive PowerPoint Gibberish Game for Classrooms

Get students thinking, laughing, and building Christmas vocabulary with this interactive PowerPoint sound-it-out game. Perfect for ESL/EFL classrooms, Christmas Say What!? challenges students to sound out nonsensical phrases to guess the familiar Christmas-themed word or saying – and the results are always hilarious! A fun and unexpected way to build listening skills, phonics awareness, and vocabulary recall – perfect for Christmas warm-ups, brain breaks, or end-of-term fun.

Teams compete to decode gibberish phrases before the timer runs out. Just download, open in PowerPoint, enable macros, and play!

How it works

• Players sound out a nonsensical sentence to guess the familiar word or phrase before time runs out.
• Example: Or Numb Hence → Ornaments

Features

• Interactive PowerPoint Christmas game
• 100 ready-to-play gibberish puzzles
• Scoreboard for 5 players (macros required)
• Automatic timer – 10 & 20 seconds
• Easy-to-edit blank slides for unlimited play
• Christmas-themed animations and graphics
• Festive sound effects and music (normal, low & no sound)
• No-prep: download and play the same day

What you’ll get

• Macro Version – PowerPoint game with scoreboard (requires macros and ActiveX)
• No-Macro Version – PowerPoint game without scoreboard, plus printable (PDF) scorecard
• Answer key (Word & PDF)

Watch it in action

• Watch the demo on YouTube to see how easy it is to play!

Compatibility note

• Works best on PowerPoint 365 for Windows PC
• Not compatible with Mac, Google Slides, or Keynote
• Some features may not work on older versions of PowerPoint
• Always test the game before your lesson