Quadrilateral Game

This excel spreadsheet contains two different interactive games (Guess Who and Mind-Reader) to encourage students to think about the properties of quadrilaterals.

The first game is a “Guess Who” style game. Player 1 thinks of a quadrilateral and secretly writes it down/sketches it. Player 2 (or the rest of the class) select questions to ask from a drop-down list. Player 1 answers honestly until only one shape remains. The object is to achieve this for Player 2 to achieve this in as few questions as possible.

The other game is a “Mind-reader” game, played vs the computer, based on the popular online game “Akinator”. The player thinks of a quadrilateral. The computer program then asks a series of questions (each one dependent on the answer to the previous question) until it can identify the player’s chosen quadrilateral.

Both games include a note regarding suggested extension questions to prompt further discussion.