Dozens of drama puzzles and interactive tools for students of all ages!

Commedia dell'arte Characters

Word Searches

Every word search puzzle in this section is connected to drama in some way. From fun word searches about musical show titles, to general theatre terms, practitioners, contemporary theatre styles, and more. These are better than your average word search because in many puzzles, once you highlight the correct word, term, or name, a pop-up will appear with additional information.

Bingo!

So you’ve never played bingo before? No problem! The rules of bingo are super-easy. You’ll play side-by-side with the drama-bot, who’ll have a different bingo board from you. The definition for a drama term will appear at the top of the game frame. See if you have the matching term on your bingo board and press it before the timer runs out. First to get a straight line in any direction wins the game!

Shakespeare Escape Room

Escape Rooms

A growing category where each escape room is a different drama theme, such as pre-modern theatre, Shakespeare, and modern drama. These escape rooms are full of twisted letter cyphers, drag-and-drop tiles that require matching, word puzzles, messages that need decoding, elements requiring reordering, and symbols of many kinds. Good luck on your adventure!

Word Jumbles

A brand new category containing a massive musical theatre challenge. 100 musical theatre show titles have been deliberately jumbled up. Sorted into 10 levels of increasing difficulty, this puzzle will keep musical theatre lovers entertained for a long time. Everyone has heard of Hamilton, but will you successfully un-jumble more obscure titles like Grey Gardens and The Drowsy Chaperone? Your challenge awaits you.

Matching Puzzles

The term ‘matching puzzles’ sounds deceptively easy, doesn’t it? Well, in this section, you’ll be asked to do things like match parts of voice, such as timbre and resonance, to their correct definition, place periods of theatre history into chronological order, or match theatre conventions with their correct style. There’s even a really cool blueprint of a theatre building where you have to drag and drop tiles to their correct location.

Scenario Puzzles

This new section currently contains a really big puzzle about performance skills. As the actor, you’ll be faced with dozens of theatrical scenarios, then asked to pitch the correct ‘level’ of performance skills to match each scenario. Then try it again with new scenarios in 16 different theatre styles and discover how each new style demands a different level of performance skills from the actor. More scenario puzzles are coming soon!

Sentence Puzzles

This section contains low-stakes, non-threatening puzzles where you complete sentences by dragging and dropping the terms below into the correct location in the sentences above. Currently consisting of basic drama terms, technical terms and acting terms for younger drama enthusiasts. Enjoy!

Memory Puzzles

This new section currently has a puzzle containing some of the greatest monologues from the Bard’s best plays. “Wherefore, art thou Romeo?” is an easy one, but do you know which of Shakespeare’s plays opens with “Now is the winter of our discontent”? Better still, can you recall where it is on the board?

Tic-Tac-Toes

Another section for junior drama lovers, these tic-tac-toe puzzles are full of mystery, adventure, romance, suspense, and time-travelling. The drama bot will defend its squares at all costs! As the adventure continues, can you beat the drama bot? Lots of fun, but more challenging than it looks.

Theatre Flowers

This section contains a growing number of word puzzles called “Theatre Flowers”. Just like The New York Times Spelling Bee puzzles, these flower puzzles require you to find the word or words that use all seven letters on the flower petals at least once (known as the Pangram). The Pangram in each Theatre Flower puzzle is always a well-known drama term.

Improv
Generators


This section contains various improv generators for scene creation in the drama classroom, starting with Symbol Switchboard, a digital tool that helps students understand how to use symbols in devised drama.

VCE Drama

This section contains puzzles and quizzes for students undertaking the VCE Drama course in Victoria, Australia. All of the puzzles are tailored to course material. If you are studying this subject, it is a great way to learn the prescribed terminology, better understand the theory that underpins practical class activities, and prepare for the written exam.

VCE Theatre Studies

This section contains puzzles and quizzes for students undertaking the VCE Theatre Studies course in Victoria, Australia. All of the puzzles are tailored to course material. If you are studying this subject, it is a great way to learn the prescribed terminology, better understand the theory that underpins practical class activities, and prepare for the written exam.