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Wildcard is a whole new way to make educational games, and it's now in beta. Instead of picking a template, you describe any game you can imagine and Arcade's AI builds it from scratch. Bring your own material with a file or link, then edit and share it like any other Arcade game. Create one here.

How to build one

1. Head to the Arcade create page and look for the "Meet Wildcard" banner near the bottom. Tap "Try it", or go straight to arcade.padlet.com/wildcard. The first time in, a short intro walks you through it.

2. Describe the game you want in plain language. Be as specific or crazy as you like: the topic, the mechanic, the theme, the twist.

3. Want it built from your own material? Attach a file or link and Wildcard works it into the game.

4. Tap Build and give it a few minutes. Wildcard games take over five minutes to generate.

5. Play it, then refine it via chat if something isn't quite right. Share it the way you share any Arcade game.

What you get

• A fully custom, playable game built from scratch to your description, with its own mechanics. Not a template with your content poured in.

• Any topic and any format you can describe, from a circuit-building lab to a gravity slingshot mission.

• Games built from your own material: attach a file or paste a link and Wildcard works it in.

• Leaderboards and live activity, just like our other games.

• Follow-up edits: tell Wildcard what to change and it reworks the game.

Good to know

• Because Wildcard is in beta, games take over five minutes to generate and might need some tweaking to get exactly right.

• Wildcard is currently free, with a limit of 100 builds and edits combined per day. We may change these limits in the future.

• Insights for Wildcard games are coming soon.

Now you can open insights on any game you've made and see how your class really did, question by question, with takeaways that call out the questions that tripped students up. Spot a gap, then build a follow-up game in one click.

How it works

1. Share your game with your students like you normally would and let a few plays roll in.

2. Once your class has played, open the game and click the INSIGHTS button at the top of the page.

3. Click the button to generate insights for your game. Your students’ answers are analyzed and the report is written up.

4. Flip between the Score and Players tabs to move between the class picture and individual results.

5. Want to go over areas that students struggled with? Scroll down to the follow-up game section and press Build to get a game to help fill in the gaps.

What you'll see

• Score tab: a gauge of how the class did overall, with summaries for questions that students struggled with and where they did well.

• Players tab: a player count on the gauge and a score list showing how each player did.

• A follow-up game suggestion: a game idea aimed at what your class found hardest, with Build and Explore right there.

Good to know

• Only you, the game's creator, can see insights. Players and anyone else with the link never see it.

• At least one person has to play before you can generate insights.

• Insights can only be generated for games created after June 15, 2026.

• Insights are generated based on each players’ first attempt on a game. Controlling which attempts are used will be available in the future.

• Editing questions or answers will reset insights by removing any plays on earlier game versions. Cosmetic changes like updating the title or instructions will not affect insights.

Your most recent Arcade games now greet you the moment you arrive, whether you are signed in or not. Recents gathers everything you have played, created, saved, or edited into one row on the homepage and the new default tab in the “My games” page, so jumping back in takes a single click.

Where to find it

1. Open the Arcade homepage. Once you have five or more recent games, a Recents row appears near the top, with arrows to scroll through it.

2. Open My Games. It now starts on the Recents tab, with your full history, however many games you have.

What shows up

• The games you have played, created, saved, or edited, most recent first.

• Games you made that other people just played. New plays bring a game back to the top, so you can see your class picking it up.

• Each game appears as a card you can recognize at a glance and reopen in one click.

• Signed out? You will still see the games you have played in this browser.

Good to know

The homepage row stays hidden until you have five or more recent games, so a fresh start never looks cluttered, while the Recents tab in My Games always shows even with a single game. Recents now works for every visitor. Before this, it was limited to a small internal group, and everyone else saw the older Played tab.