For schools

A lesson in three steps

1. Open a class and project this screen.
2. Pupils scan the QR code with a phone or Chromebook and pick a nickname.
3. Everybody guesses the same mystery by asking about its traits. You start each round and see the results afterwards.

Any device with a current web browser works. Pupils join by scanning the QR code or typing the class code.

Two ways to play

• Guess by traits: pupils ask about class, order, family, diet, size, activity, habitat, continent and conservation status, and reason their way to the species.
• Photo quiz: everyone sees the animal's photo and types its name, like a classic species identification test. A trait can still be asked as a hint, for points.

Fits your curriculum

• Animals, plants, fungi and stones: choose what the lesson is about, for biology and geology alike.
• Your own sets: pick the exact animals your textbook or curriculum lists, reuse them, and share them with colleagues by link.
• Ready-made sets for common lessons (pets and farm animals, forest animals, birds, trees, flowers, crops, continents and habitats): add one to your sets and adjust it.
• Share the class link straight to Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams, or copy it.
• Local wildlife: limit a class to animals observed in the wild in your country.
• Results for the teacher: per pupil, per animal and per trait, with the traits the class missed most, exportable as CSV.
• Animal names, facts and the whole game in English, Czech, Slovak, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish and French.

Ready-made sets

• Pets and farm animals
• Animals of the European forest
• Birds
• Trees of the European forest
• Spring flowers
• Meadow wildflowers
• Mushrooms of the forest
• Poisonous plants
• Crops and farm fields
• Fruit and vegetables
• African savanna
• Polar regions and the sea
• Australia and Oceania
• Rainforest
• Dinosaurs and their world
• The Solar System

Accessibility

• Designed to meet WCAG 2.2 AA: works with a keyboard and screen readers, visible focus, large touch targets, and status is never shown by colour alone.
• A large-text switch and full screen for the projector; light and dark mode.
• Animations stop when the device asks for reduced motion.

Pupils' privacy

• Pupils need no account, no e-mail address and no real name: they type a nickname, and the teacher can rename or remove it.
• What is stored for a pupil: a random anonymous identifier (kept in the browser and on our server), the nickname, and their answers and points in the class.
• There is no chat and no messaging: pupils cannot contact each other or anyone else through the game.
• Class games appear on no public profile, leaderboard or collection; what the class sees of the ranking is up to the teacher.

Teachers

• Teachers sign in with Google or Discord, so their classes and sets stay with their account; we receive the e-mail address and name that the provider shares.
• A teacher sees only the nicknames and results of their own classes.

Data

• Data is stored in the EU (Supabase, Frankfurt). The website is delivered by Vercel.
• A class with all its nicknames, answers and results is deleted automatically 90 days after it was opened; the teacher can delete it at any time.
• Class pages run no analytics. Elsewhere the site uses Vercel Web Analytics, which sets no cookies.
• During a photo quiz the photo passes through our server, so its address cannot give the answer away; after the reveal, photos load from Wikimedia Commons with their author and licence.
• No advertising, no selling or sharing of data, no tracking for marketing.

More

The full privacy policy, and where every piece of data comes from: Privacy Policy · Data sources

This page describes how WildGuessr handles data, to help with your school's records. It is not legal advice: your school remains responsible for its own data protection assessment.