Strapped for ideas how to engage students in the online classroom? Scrambling for methods and resources to maintain momentum?
Enter book covers. A popular internet game called “Name That Book” or “Guess That Book” is a sure-fire way to keep a never-ending Zoom-class fresh, instructor included. Variations of the game, with some lockdown-inspired creativity, can be incorporated into library sessions, too.
Browse our collection of various types of book cover games below, created by others. The examples illustrate what’s already available out there. Listed in order of difficulty, these games also indicate that we should consider our students’ interests and reading level before every single class or before any other attempts to engage our target audience.
- 20 famous books – Tell the tile from the cover (author shown on cover)
- Classic covers – Title only in multiple choice quiz
- Quiz from The Guardian – Book cover only in the picture, multiple choice quiz with author and title
- Time travel quiz – Book cover only, listed by decades, multiple choice with author and title
- First edition covers – Book cover only, choice of two titles or two covers
- Iconic novels, minimalist covers – A minimalist book covers quiz with stripped-back designs inspired by some classic, definitive book covers
- Classic children’s books – Snippets of the cover, mouse over for answer, click for all editions (from AbeBooks)
- Guess from an ambiguous part of the cover – Probably one of the more difficult ones, with a small part of the cover only
There are collections created by other libraries, such as Blanked Out Books. You can have a guess, then click “next” to reveal the answer. It comes with downloadable slides from Suffolk Library.
Want to create you own? We have successfully used Canva to set up our own “Name That Book” stressbusters before the graphic design workshop in December 2020. The example above shows a yellow rose, courtesy of Stephanie Bartz, as image background, and a Canva “element” of a business card with a name on it – an easy one to create and solve: The name of the rose.