🎲 Bible Games

A small hub of classroom Bible games for kids (around 5th grade), made for Sunday school and Religious Education classes. Play on a projector, a laptop or a phone. Everything is English/Spanish bilingual, no build step, no dependencies.

Open index.html to get the hub with links to every game, or jump straight into one:

Game	Folder	What it is
🎣 Bible Jeopardy	jeopardy/	5-topic board, 25 questions, steals, a double-value tile
⚡ True or False	true-false/	Lightning review round — fast true/false statements
🎡 Wheel of Trivia	wheel/	Spin for a category, then answer multiple choice
🗂️ Speed Sort	speed-sort/	Teams race to sort cards into the right category

All four games share the same team/turn/scoring engine: pick 2–4 teams, name them, and the app tracks turns, scores (with manual +100/-100 adjustment), and autosaves progress to the browser so a refresh won't lose a game in progress.

Setup / Menú inicial

Game board / Tablero

Question with choices / Pregunta con opciones

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🎣 Bible Jeopardy

Features

• 5 topics, 25 questions each: The Life of Jesus, Genesis, Moses and the Exodus, Old Testament Heroes, The Early Church.
• Automatic turns: the game picks who starts and tells each team when it's their turn.
• Steals: if a team misses, the next team gets one chance to steal the points.
• Full net! 🎣: one hidden tile on each board is worth double.
• 3 difficulty levels:
  • Easy: A/B/C choices shown right away.
  • Normal: choices only if the team asks.
  • Hard: no choices, kids answer from memory.
• Optional timer: play with a countdown or at your own pace. You can switch it on or off mid-game.
• Auto-save: the game survives a page refresh, even with a question open.
• Every answer includes its Bible reference, so the teacher can check it.
• Works on big screens and phones.

How to play

1. Choose language, topic, difficulty, timer and number of teams (2–4).
2. The team whose turn it is picks a tile.
3. Read the question aloud. Mark Correct or Wrong, or tap the choice the team picked.
4. A wrong answer gives the next team a chance to steal.
5. When all 25 tiles are used, the team with the most points wins.

Keyboard shortcuts

Key	Action
O	Show choices
C	Correct
X	Wrong
Enter	Next turn
Esc	Back to the board

Each team has +100 / −100 buttons to fix the score if needed.

(Juego de trivia bíblica estilo Jeopardy, bilingüe español/inglés.)

Qué incluye

• 5 temas con 25 preguntas cada uno: La vida de Jesús, Génesis, Moisés y el Éxodo, Héroes del Antiguo Testamento y La iglesia primitiva.
• Turnos automáticos: el juego sortea quién empieza y avisa a quién le toca.
• Robo: si un equipo falla, el siguiente tiene una oportunidad de robar los puntos.
• ¡Red llena! 🎣: una casilla escondida en cada tablero vale el doble.
• 3 niveles de dificultad:
  • Fácil: las opciones A/B/C aparecen de una vez.
  • Normal: las opciones salen solo si las piden.
  • Difícil: sin opciones, responden de memoria.
• Reloj opcional: se juega con cuenta regresiva o con calma, y se puede cambiar a mitad del juego.
• Guardado automático: si recargás la página, el juego sigue donde iba, aunque haya una pregunta abierta.
• Cada respuesta trae su cita bíblica para que el maestro la pueda verificar.

Cómo jugar

1. Elegí idioma, tema, dificultad, reloj y número de equipos (2 a 4).
2. El equipo en turno escoge una casilla.
3. Leé la pregunta en voz alta. Marcá Correcto o Incorrecto, o tocá la opción que dijo el equipo.
4. Si fallan, el siguiente equipo puede robar.
5. Cuando se usan las 25 casillas, gana el equipo con más puntos.

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⚡ True or False

A fast bilingual review round. The teacher reads a statement aloud, the team on turn calls out "true" or "false," and the teacher taps the matching button. Right away it scores +100 and shows the correct answer with its reference.

• 7 decks: The Trinity & Creation, Prayer, The Life of Jesus, Genesis Stories, Moses & the Exodus, Old Testament Heroes, The Early Church.
• 3 difficulty levels (control how much time each team gets to answer): Easy (20s), Normal (15s), Hard (10s).

🎡 Wheel of Trivia

Spin an 11-category wheel; whichever category the wheel lands on pulls a random multiple-choice question from that topic.

• 11 categories: Trinity, Creation, Prayer, Common Prayers, Scripture & Prayer, God the Father, The Life of Jesus, Genesis Stories, Moses & the Exodus, Old Testament Heroes, The Early Church.
• 3 difficulty levels: Easy/Normal show the 3 answer choices (20s/15s to answer); Hard hides the choices entirely — kids answer from memory and the teacher marks it Correct/Wrong (12s).

🗂️ Speed Sort

Teams race to classify short cards into the right bucket.

• 4 decks: Persons of the Trinity (Father/Son/Holy Spirit), the Five Forms of Prayer (blessing & adoration, petition, intercession, thanksgiving, praise), Miracle or Parable?, and Old or New Testament?.
• 3 difficulty levels (time to answer): Easy (20s), Normal (15s), Hard (10s). Good as a kinesthetic change of pace mid-lesson.

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Adding or editing questions

Every game is a single self-contained HTML file — no build step. Open the relevant file and edit its data array directly:

Game	File	Data array
Jeopardy	jeopardy/index.html	THEMES
True or False	true-false/index.html	DECKS
Wheel of Trivia	wheel/index.html	CATS
Speed Sort	speed-sort/index.html	DECKS

Jeopardy questions look like this:

[
  "Spanish question",
  "English question",
  ["Correct ES", "Wrong ES", "Wrong ES"],
  ["Correct EN", "Wrong EN", "Wrong EN"],
  "Libro ES / Book EN 1:1",
  "Optional note ES",
  "Optional note EN",
];

The first option is always the correct one. The game shuffles the choices on screen. Each theme needs exactly 5 categories with 5 questions each, ordered from easiest (100) to hardest (500).

True or False statements look like this:

["Spanish statement.", "English statement.", true /* or false */, "Optional note/reference ES", "Optional note/reference EN"];

Wheel of Trivia questions look like this (same shuffle rule — first option is correct):

["Spanish question", "English question", ["Correct ES", "Wrong ES", "Wrong ES"], ["Correct EN", "Wrong EN", "Wrong EN"], "Optional combined reference"];

Speed Sort cards look like this (the number is the index into that deck's buckets array):

["Spanish card text.", "English card text.", 0 /* bucket index */, "Optional note/reference"];

Notes

• Saved games are stored in the browser (localStorage). They don't carry over between devices or browsers, or into private/incognito windows.
• No build step or dependencies. Just open index.html or host it on GitHub Pages.
• Language: every page detects the visitor's browser language on first visit (English/Spanish, defaulting to Spanish for anything else) and remembers it once you use the language toggle — the toggle always wins over auto-detection after that.

Analytics (optional)

Page-view tracking is wired up but off by default. To turn it on:

1. Create a free Google Analytics 4 property for the site (Admin → Create Property), then add a Web data stream for https://oacalix.github.io/bible-games/.
2. Copy the stream's Measurement ID (looks like G-XXXXXXXXXX).
3. Open analytics.js at the repo root and replace the placeholder G-XXXXXXXXXX with your real ID. That one file is loaded by every page (hub + all 4 games), so this is the only edit needed.
4. Commit and push — traffic should start showing up in GA within a few minutes of someone opening a page.

SEO / AI discoverability

Each page has a description, Open Graph/Twitter tags, a canonical URL and WebApplication/WebSite structured data (JSON-LD). The repo root also has sitemap.xml, a permissive robots.txt (explicitly open to AI crawlers like GPTBot/ClaudeBot, not just search engines), and an llms.txt summarizing the site for AI assistants. After pushing to GitHub Pages, submit the site in Google Search Console (Add property → https://oacalix.github.io/bible-games/ → verify via the HTML tag or DNS method → Sitemaps → submit sitemap.xml) to get it indexed faster — Claude can't do that step for you since it requires your Google account.

License

MIT. Feel free to use, adapt and share it with your church or school.

Made by Oscar Calix.