Roodle
Guess the word. Six tries.
Every letter you play tells you something.
6 tries
- Right spot
- In the word
- Not in it
Same game. Your words. Your whole room.
You author the secret words. Everyone guesses at the same time, each on their own phone, and you watch the solves land.
Your words, not ours.
Vocabulary, key terms, names from the reading: author up to six secret words per round.
Everyone plays at once.
One PIN, every phone. Each player gets six attempts per word and their own grid.
You see the room.
Watch solves land as they happen, then reveal the answers on the big screen.
Nobody can peek.
In a Tikroo room, guesses are marked on our servers. The secret word never reaches a player's device, so it cannot be dug out of one.
Yours in about a minute.
Type your words.
Add Roodle to a board and enter up to six secret words.
Share the PIN.
Players join in any browser. No app, and no accounts for them.
Run it.
Live with the whole room, or set it as self-paced work.
Roodle is one game on the shelf.
Every Tikroo activity runs off the same Roo and the same PIN, from polls to the arcade.
About Roodle
Why guessing beats being told
A word you had to reconstruct from five wrong attempts is held differently from one you read off a list. Each guess narrows the field, and the narrowing is the work: the student is testing a claim about spelling and letter position rather than recognising a shape. That is retrieval practice with a game wrapped round it, which is why it survives being played on a Friday afternoon.
Choosing words that make a decent round
Pick words with a spread of common letters and no more than one awkward one. A word carrying two rare letters turns the round into luck, and luck teaches nothing. Letter variety matters more than length: a six-letter word with four different vowels is a better puzzle than a nine-letter one that is mostly consonant clusters.
Playing it with a class rather than alone
The learning sits in the gap between guesses, not in the guess. Ask what the last row has ruled out before anyone suggests the next word, and the room has to reason out loud from evidence instead of shouting the first thing that fits. Two minutes of that is worth more than three extra rounds.
Where it fits in a lesson
It works as a five-minute starter on vocabulary you are about to use, or as a plenary on vocabulary you just taught. Those are different jobs: one primes recognition, the other tests recall. It does not work as the main event. Something that is over in six guesses is a doorway into the lesson, not the lesson.
Questions
- Is Roodle free to play here?
- Yes. This page is a free solo game, and it needs no account.
- Can I use my own words?
- Yes, in a Tikroo room: add Roodle to a board and author up to six secret words. Roodle is included in every paid plan.
- Do players need an app?
- No. Players join with a PIN in any browser, on any device.
- Can players cheat by inspecting the page?
- Not in a room. Marking happens on our servers and the secret word never reaches a player device.
Put your words in play.
Create a Roo, author your words and share one PIN. Roodle is part of every paid plan.