Kriah practice that tastes like candy
Enter this week's words — with nekudos — and watch them become whack-a-mole, memory, match-up and crossword games. Sound effects, timers, and a leaderboard your class will fight over.
Free while in beta · Works on classroom tablets · Nothing to install
Four arcade machines, one word list
Every game is built Hebrew-first: right-to-left boards, nekudos rendered big and crisp, and scoring tuned for six-year-olds who want to beat the class record.
Whack-a-Mole
A syllable pops up on every mole — whack only the sound you're hunting. Same letters, different nekudos: this is the discrimination drill kriah teachers dream about, at arcade speed.
Try it nowMemory Flip
Flip honey-gold tiles to pair each word with its match — or with itself, for pure reading reps.
Match-Up
Drag every voweled word onto its match. Snaps, shakes, and instant feedback on touch screens.
Crossword
A real right-to-left Hebrew crossword built from your list — read the voweled clue, spell the word.
How the sweetness works
Write it
Open the Word Workshop and type this week's words — the built-in nikud palette and on-screen alef-bais keyboard mean you never fight your device's keyboard settings.
Pick a game
Tick the machines you want: whack-a-mole for sound drills, memory and match-up for pairing, crossword for spelling. One list powers all four.
Watch them read
Students get instant feedback on every tap — dings, streak flames, timers — and their best scores go on the class leaderboard.
Made for kriah, not adapted to it
Generic word-game sites treat Hebrew as an afterthought. Here the nekudos are the whole point.
Same letters, different sounds
Whack-a-mole deliberately deals distractors that share your target's letters but wear different nekudos — בָּ against בַּ against בֵּ. That's the exact skill struggling readers need, disguised as a carnival game.
Whack every:
בָּ
Word Workshop
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Type nekudos without the fight
No hunting for keyboard layouts or copy-pasting from old worksheets. Tap a letter, tap a vowel — the palette drops every nikud exactly where your cursor sits, with an on-screen alef-bais keyboard for devices without Hebrew input.
Scores they'll brag about at supper
Every game ends with stars, confetti and a leaderboard per activity. Streak bonuses reward accuracy over button-mashing — a child who reads carefully beats a child who taps fast.
Shabbos Words · Whack-a-Mole
- 1Rivky240
- 2Moishy215
- 3Shloimy180
Honey on the letters
For centuries, a child's first day of learning began with honey spread on the alef-bais — so the first taste of Torah would be sweet. Kriah Arcade is that same idea with a scoreboard: the drills your students need, coated in the games they'd choose anyway.
Make your first game
Type this week's list in the Word Workshop — your class plays it today.
Open the Word WorkshopJust want to try one?
Four ready-made packs are loaded — Shabbos words, alef-bais, siddur words and first syllables. No sign-up, nothing to install.
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