Does your family love a challenging puzzle or brain teaser? Well if they do why not make a fun activity, with some friendly competition, that everyone can enjoy! I’m talking about making a brain teaser quiz completed using text messages.
First you need a list of brain teasers and puzzles to ask the participants. There are some great websites that provide riddles off all difficulties for free. A few of the most popular sites include:
Go through these sites and you’ll find lots of fun clues that you’ll be able to use. When you have a good list ready you can create a quiz to be sent to the whole family over their mobile phones! It will send a text message with the puzzle, riddle or brain teaser and they have to try and text back the correct answer. If they get the answer correct then the next riddle is sent automatically. They will have three chances to get the correct answer before being given the answer and the next riddle.
You can score the answers as follows:
| Answer on: | Points Awarded: |
| Guess 1 | 3 |
| Guess 2 | 2 |
| Guess 3 | 1 |
Once everyone is done with their quiz you can see easily online how many guesses each person took for each puzzle. So tally up all the points and determine the winner! This is a great activity for a games night and making teams will just add to the fun.
Give it a try using TextClues and let us know how much fun you had. Or test out a few riddles using the demo to see it work for yourself.