End of year review games for any subject
By the end of the year, you have a year of worksheets, quizzes, and tests in your files and a class that is ready for summer. Your best review material already exists. These ideas turn it into end of year review games without any new prep.
Updated October 2026
Start with what you already have
Your best review material is already in your files. Pull from these:
- Unit tests and quizzes
- Warm-ups and exit tickets
- Study guides
- The worksheets students struggled with the most
You don’t need to review everything. Pick the questions that matter most from each unit and play those.
One way to plan a review week
- Day 1: a worksheet from your earliest units, since students have had the most time to forget them.
- Day 2: questions from the middle of the year.
- Day 3: your most recent units.
- Day 4: a mix of questions from all units.
- Day 5: students choose the topics they want to review.
Games that work at the end of the year
Review ANYTHING with a cumulative worksheet
Pick one worksheet, or read from several, and let teams race across the board on your projector or classroom screen. You can keep a separate saved game for each class or period. It runs on an iPad or Mac with no student devices, accounts, or internet. It’s my app, so I’m not neutral. See how it works.
Student-written questions
Have each student write two review questions from an old unit on scrap paper, with the answer on the back. Collect them and use them as your question bank for any game.
Question auction
Teams bid points on how confident they are before each question. Right answers win the bid and wrong answers lose it. Directions are in 8 no-prep review games for middle and high school.
Four Corners
Students walk to the corner they think is correct. It gets everyone out of their seats during the long final weeks.
Tips for the last weeks of school
- Keep games short, and stop while students still want more.
- Rotate roles so every student has a job.
- End each session with one quick question everyone answers on paper.
- Let students vote on which unit to review next.
Preparing for testing season too? See state test review games that need no prep.
Frequently asked questions
How do I review a whole year without making new materials?
Use the unit tests, quizzes, and worksheets you already have as your question bank. Choose a handful of questions from each unit and play them in short rounds.
Can one game cover several units?
Yes. Review ANYTHING isn’t tied to a subject or a question set, so you can read questions from several worksheets in the same game.
Try Review ANYTHING
Turn the worksheet you already have into a whole-class board game. No prep, no accounts, no internet. $4.99 on the App Store for iPad and Mac (Apple silicon). Android version coming soon.