Age
6+
Keep Or Give
Keep it… or give it away?
Keep or Give is a classroom strategy game on Duno where students answer questions, open a mystery score box, and decide to keep the points or give them to another team.
Game info
Focus
Reasoning, Strategy, Collaboration
Mode
Quiz + Vocab
Duration
5-10 minutes
How to play
Answer
Pick a box to reveal a question, then let students answer.
Keep or Give
Choose to Keep the box for your team or Give it to another team.
Reveal
Reveal the box score (positive or negative) — or, with Surprise Boxes on, a Rocket, Flag, or Switcheroo effect.
Win
Play continues until all boxes are used. Highest score wins.
Why use Keep Or Give
Turns normal review into a high-interest strategy game students care about.
Encourages team discussion, risk-taking, and classroom participation.
Works especially well for 5-10 minute review sessions before tests or lesson wrap-up.
Optional Surprise Boxes (Rocket, Flag, Switcheroo) add extra swings when you want even more unpredictability.
FAQ
Yes. It supports team play and works best when teams discuss strategy together each turn.
Surprise Boxes are on by default — turn them off in settings if you'd rather keep every box a plain score. When enabled, a box can trigger a special effect instead of a plain score: Rocket boosts the recipient near the leader, Flag resets their score to zero, and Switcheroo swaps their total with another team. They only start appearing once every team already has points on the board.
The general host settings cover team count, question count, sound effects, and text-to-speech. Keep or Give also lets you turn Surprise Boxes on or off.
No. You can run the game from one teacher screen or projector for whole-class play.
Yes. You can create your own activity and use custom content for any lesson topic.
Most sessions run 5 to 10 minutes, depending on how many questions and teams you use.
Ready to make your own activity?
Create a Quiz or Vocabulary activity and play it with Keep Or Give.
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