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12 classroom games you can run with a random letter

Every one of these needs nothing but the letter generator and whatever's already in the room. Grouped by age range and how much prep they need — most are zero-prep.

Phonics & early literacy

  1. Letter sound hunt. Generate a letter, students find three objects in the room starting with that sound.
  2. Vowel or consonant? Use the vowel-only or consonant-only filter to drill the distinction directly — call the letter, students say which category before you reveal it.
  3. Trace & say. Generate a letter, students trace it in the air and say a word starting with it. Turn on Speak so the letter is announced aloud for pronunciation matching.
  4. Alphabet order race. Generate 5 unique letters, students race to put them in alphabetical order.

Spelling & vocabulary

  1. Category blitz. Generate a letter, students name a food, animal, and country starting with it before time runs out — pair with Auto-Play on a 5-second interval for a fast-paced round.
  2. Word ladder. Generate a starting letter, students build the longest real word they can beginning with it.
  3. Spelling relay. Split into teams (use Team mode), each team gets a letter and has to spell a word aloud starting with it before passing to the next player.
  4. Letter string warm-up. Generate a 5-letter sequence, students turn it into the closest real word by changing one letter at a time.

Party & group games

  1. Scattergories-style round. Generate a letter, everyone fills in a list of categories (name, place, food, movie) starting with that letter in 60 seconds.
  2. Song title challenge. Generate a letter, first person to name a song starting with it wins the round.
  3. Team decision-maker. Use Team mode to assign each team a random letter and let it decide turn order, topic assignment, or who goes first.
  4. Call-sign icebreaker. Switch to Phonetic mode, generate everyone a NATO call sign from the first letter of their name, and have them introduce themselves using it.

Running these on a projector

Use Fullscreen mode so the generated letter is the only thing on screen, and Auto-Play if you want the letter to rotate on its own during a timed round instead of pressing generate manually.