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Is there a game that quizzes kids on their own homework?

Yes. Quizlet, Kahoot! and Mosswick Academy (which we make) all let you put in your child’s own material and then quiz them on it as a game. Quizlet’s listing says it builds a study set from notes you type, paste or upload (listing); Kahoot! lets you create your own quizzes, which it calls kahoots, and play them alone or with family (listing); Mosswick Academy, a free browser beta, turns pasted study lines into spells in a story game. All of them work best for facts with one clear answer, such as vocabulary, definitions, spelling words and dates, and poorly for maths working or essays. Whichever you use, a grown-up should check the questions against the homework.

We make Mosswick Academy, so we have a stake in this. Nobody paid to be included. Facts about other apps come from their own App Store listings (linked), checked November 8, 2026; prices and features change, so check the listing before you pay for anything.

Which homework fits a quiz game

Good fit: vocabulary and foreign-language words, science terms, definitions, history dates and people, capitals, times tables, anything that already comes as a list.
Poor fit: multi-step maths problems, writing, reading comprehension and projects. A quiz game can only check answers it has been given.

Three ways to get homework into a game

1. Type or paste it

The most reliable way, and every option supports it. Write one question and answer per line, for example “photosynthesis – how plants make food”. Mosswick Academy also reads Q:/A: notes, a Quizlet export and spreadsheet (CSV) files.

2. Let the app build it from notes

Quizlet’s listing says: “Type, paste, or upload your notes and Quizlet builds a complete study set for you,” and it can also make flashcards from a recorded lecture (listing, checked November 8, 2026). Mosswick Academy does not read uploads or photos itself.

3. Use an AI assistant for a worksheet photo

Mosswick’s “AI helper” gives you a prompt to copy into an AI assistant along with a photo or PDF of the worksheet; you paste the reply back in and it becomes a quiz. Two cautions: AI can get facts wrong, and AI assistants have their own age rules, so check those first. For younger children this is a step for a grown-up.

Check the quiz before they play

This matters more than which game you choose. Quizzing helps children remember what they practiced (Roediger & Karpicke, 2006), including, with multiple-choice questions, wrong options they picked (Roediger & Marsh, 2005). A wrong “correct answer” in the set will be practiced too. Skim the cards against the worksheet, and choose a game that shows the right answer after a miss, which reduces those errors (Butler & Roediger, 2008).

Which one to pick

Older child, lots of subjects, uses it at school: Quizlet.
Wants to play with friends or family: Kahoot!.
Ages 8–14, likes story games, avoids studying: Mosswick Academy, if a browser beta is fine.

More detail in our Quizlet vs Kahoot! vs Mosswick Academy comparison.

The no-app version

Index cards work: question on the front, answer on the back, and a “done” pile for the ones they get right. Come back to the misses the next day. Spreading practice across days helps it last (Cepeda et al., 2006).

Mosswick Academy facts, as of November 8, 2026: a free beta that plays in a web browser on a computer, tablet or phone at getglod.com/mosswick/play. It is not on the App Store. A Family Pass at $39 a year is planned and not on sale yet; the page says Chapter 1 and the study tools will stay free.

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Sources

Roediger HL, Karpicke JD. Test-enhanced learning: taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science 2006;17(3):249–255. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16507066/
Roediger HL, Marsh EJ. The positive and negative consequences of multiple-choice testing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 2005;31(5):1155–1159. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16248758/
Butler AC, Roediger HL. Feedback enhances the positive effects and reduces the negative effects of multiple-choice testing. Memory & Cognition 2008;36(3):604–616. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18491500/
Cepeda NJ, Pashler H, Vul E, Wixted JT, Rohrer D. Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: a review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin 2006;132(3):354–380. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16719566/