How well do your students know each other?
Mystery Crew is a social quiz game for phones, and with a quiz link it works in a browser too. Students answer questions about themselves in secret, then guess each other’s answers. This page has everything you need to get started.
🎁 Your first class is free until the end of next month. No subscription, no card needed, and nothing is charged afterwards. Downloading and playing is always free for students – and while your Pass is active, your students get every Crew Pass reward unlocked too, so they never need to buy anything.
In short: how does it work?
🎯 What did Anna pick?
Students answer a question in secret (e.g. “What’s your favourite subject?”). Then come the rounds: the others guess what a classmate picked, and after the guess the answer is revealed.
👥 Who in the class…?
An anonymous vote for a classmate (e.g. “Who is the most helpful in the class?”). After voting everyone sees the result, but nobody sees who voted for whom.
🕵️ Daily Mystery
Every day one student is the Mystery. Their own answers become clues, and the others use them to work out who it is.
🏫 The teacher is the game master
The teacher doesn’t answer or guess the class questions and isn’t on the class leaderboard. They write the questions, start the rounds and see the results.
Up and running in 5 minutes
- Download the appFree, for iPhone and Android (buttons below).
- Create a crew and activate the Teacher Crew PassOn the Profile tab, under Crew Pass. This turns the crew into a class crew for up to 30 students. Your first class is free until the end of next month.
- Write 3–5 questionsOr pick from the 💡 Ideas (see below).
- Invite your studentsThe crew code and the invite are on the Crew tab. Students download the app and enter the code. No sign-up needed, and they pay nothing.
- Start a roundOnce a few students have answered, tap “Start a round” on the Play tab and the guessing begins.
Questions: ready-made, or do I write them?
Both work.
📚 Built-in question bank
More than 500 ready-made questions (“Where would you rather go?”, “Dog or cat?”…). If you don’t set anything up, the game runs on these by itself.
✍️ Your own questions, with 💡 Ideas
You can write two kinds of question:
- “What would you choose?” – with 2–4 options (e.g. “What’s your favourite subject?”).
- “Who in the class…?” – the students are the options, and they vote anonymously.
Behind the 💡 Ideas button in the question editor there are ready-made class questions (🏫 Class, 👥 Who in the class…?). One tap fills in the question, and you can edit it before saving. The “Who in the class…?” ideas are all positive (e.g. “Who always makes everyone laugh?”). The Ideas button is in the latest version of the app; if you can’t see it, update the app.
🛡️ “Only our own questions” switch
Turn it on and students get only the crew’s own questions, nothing from the built-in bank. That way the game can focus on a single topic.
Tip: the Daily Mystery then needs at least 3 “What would you choose?” questions, because the clues come from students’ answers. Vote questions don’t count here.
✍️ “Students can write questions too” switch
In a class crew, only the teacher writes questions by default. Students see: “🔒 In this class only the teacher writes questions.” If you allow it, students with a Crew Pass can write questions for the class; “Who in the class…?” questions are still yours only.
🎓 Ready questions for class-teacher lessons
Five topic packs with 6 questions each: friendship, togetherness, handling conflict, empathy, online safety. The “Who in the class…?” questions are positive here too, and sensitive topics use questions with their own answer options. Find them on the Questions page under “🎓 For class-teacher lessons”, and on your home screen as “🎓 Ready questions for class-teacher lessons”.
How long per question? How many questions?
There is no timer. This isn’t a live quiz like Kahoot where everyone watches the board at once. Students answer and guess on their own phones at their own pace, in class, at home or during a break.
- 5–10 questions are enough to start. You can add new ones any time, and a new question jumps ahead of the rest.
- A round closes when every student has guessed, or when at least half have guessed and the round has been open for 10 minutes. So nobody waits for the slowest.
- In one lesson: 2–3 minutes to answer the questions, then 10–15 minutes for rounds. Students usually carry on at home.
🔗 Quiz link: no phones, no download
No phones allowed in class? Turn your questions into a link. Students fill it in in a browser, in the computer room, on a laptop or a tablet, with nothing to download. Suitable from year 5: no account is created, and a first name or nickname is enough.
- Create the linkIn the app, on the Questions page: 🔗 Quiz link → + Create quiz link. Tick which “What would you choose?” questions to include (from 💡 Ideas too), and the link is ready, e.g. mysterycrewapp.com/o/QFW7DA.
- Students fill it inThey open the link, type their name and answer one question after another. At the end they see the class’s combined result, with their own answer highlighted and no one else’s name.
- 📺 ProjectorThe projector view shows the question in large type with live result bars. Use “Back” and “Next” (or the arrow keys) to go through it together, question by question.
- 📊 ResultsIn the app you see the totals for each question, and how many have taken it. No names: not even the teacher sees who answered what.
- Computer room: the “Next student on this device” button lets the next student start. The previous student’s name and answers aren’t kept.
- The link always shows the same questions in the same order. If you add a question later, anyone who reopens it only gets the new one.
- New topic next week? Create a new link. The old one’s results are kept.
- “Who in the class…?” votes aren’t included: those only work in the app, inside the class crew.
- Up to 60 people can take one link, and the data is deleted automatically after 180 days. The quiz link is in the latest version of the app; if you can’t see it, update the app.
🏫 Class week
Beyond the questions, there’s a small shared task for the class every week. Students find them on the Play tab in the “Weekly class tasks” strip, and you see how the class is doing on your home screen, on the “📅 This week in your class” card.
🌤️ Weekly class mood
3 anonymous questions a week: mood, togetherness, sense of safety (1–5 emoji). You see the average and the change from last week, but only if at least 5 students answered, so nobody can be identified.
🏆 Shared weekly class goal
If 60% of the students play on at least 3 days this week, everyone gets 100 XP. It’s not an individual race but a shared goal, and everyone only sees their own days, with no names.
💐 Compliment round
You start it with one tap and it runs for a week. Everyone compliments 2 classmates, and everyone gets exactly 2 compliments, so nobody is left out. There’s no free text, only positive traits to choose from (helpful, kind, creative…), and students see what was said about them without names.
🤫 Secret kindness mission
A small shared task each week, e.g. “Sit next to someone you rarely talk to.” Students mark it done on their honour, and you see how many completed it.
On Monday afternoon students get a notification that a new week has started. These are in the latest version of the app; if you can’t see them, update the app.
Do students see at the end who answered what?
Yes, but not as a list. They find out playfully: answers are revealed one by one, after guessing. That’s the whole point: if every answer were visible up front, there’d be nothing to guess.
| Question | The student sees | The teacher sees |
|---|---|---|
| “What would you choose?” e.g. favourite subject |
Guesses in rounds: “What did Anna pick?” After the guess, Anna’s answer is revealed. | Only the totals (📊 “Maths: 8, Art: 5…”), no names. Students see on the question: “🔒 The teacher only sees the totals – not who answered what.” |
| “Who in the class…?” anonymous vote |
After voting, the result (Pete 9, Anna 5 votes), but not who voted for whom. Whoever was picked can guess who it was; they only learn the name if they guess right. | Also just the result. Nobody sees who voted for whom, not even the teacher. |
| Who has answered? | – | Only the number: “12 / 16 students answered”. Not who answered and who didn’t. |
You see the results on the Questions page (📊), and your latest question’s result on the Play tab too. Every morning there’s a short summary, “🏫 Yesterday in your class”: how many students played, who was the Mystery and how many guessed it.
Safety and age
- From year 7 (age 12+). Under 16 with parents’ knowledge and according to school rules.
- Private crew: only people you give the code to can join. No public profiles; only the class sees the answers.
- Anonymous voting protects students: it lets them vote honestly, and keeps it from turning hurtful.
- Profanity filter and 🚩 Report button on custom questions. After two reports a question disappears for everyone, and you can delete it any time.
FAQ
Can we play without phones? Do students have to download anything?
How much does it cost?
How many students fit in a class crew?
Do students need an email or an account?
Does the teacher play too?
Which languages?
Try it with your class?
Download the app, activate the Teacher Crew Pass and invite your students.
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