This game takes the mediocre decode worksheet activity to a whole new level! So, I have 20-24 students in every G5 and G6 class. I split the class into boys team and girls team. 2 boys and 2 girls would come to the front. 1 boy and 1 girl would be the decoder (with the decode sheet), the other would be the writer (with no decode sheet). The decoder had to secretly tell their teammate which letters to write and had to stand behind the writer, to not allow the writer to do their own decoding. The rest of the class had to stay silent (which they were mostly trying to decode themselves). First team to correctly write the sentences, punctuation and spelling, got 1 point. By far one of the most fun games I've conducted. The only issue was that the girls teams absolutely destroyed the boys in most classes. Thanks for this amazing game! - Chris

My variation of this game was to divide the class into 2 teams. One member from each team would come to a different spot on the board and the decoding sheet was taped up there. Then I would present the slide. Whoever decoded the word first won a point for their team. - Trinity

Students: 22 | Time: 20min | Skill Focus: Writing | Finished Game? 🔴

Finished between 6-9 rounds across 3 classes of 6th grade students. Mine are mixed level - it was made quicker by the higher level ones shouting the answer when they finished and got bored waiting for the lower level ones! - Anon

Students: 24 | Time: 20min | Skill Focus: Writing | Finished Game? 🔴

finished up to round 7 - Anon

Students: 24 | Time: 30-35min | Skill Focus: Writing | Finished Game? 🟢

I've had some issues with wingdings fonts in the past since I have to use a different PC every class. 95% of the time, there are no issues with the wingdings icons, but if one letter is wrong, it can throw the whole round out of whack. So, what I did was type out the sentence in wingdings, screenshot it and crop it back on the text area of the slide. This made it so that it was 100% consistent for every class. I also changed a couple of the icons into their capital versions (vastly different from the lower case versions) because there seemed to be many similar circle and diamond icons that I knew would confuse students. However, after these adjustments, the game ran very smoothly with no issues and students went bonkers for it. - Anon

Students: 35 | Time: 20min | Skill Focus: Writing | Finished Game? 🟢

I wrote past participle sentences for the students to decode. We did 6 rounds (6 sentences to decode). The first student to decode the sentence got a sticker. we did this activity individually with my Year 9's. They seemed to enjoy it and liked racing against their friends to be first. I really like how every student was interested even the kids who usually hate English class as they were using different skills they weren't used to using in English class. - Anon