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Today’s First Five 5/20/26
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Educator Corner
Press Play. Beat the Clock. Have Fun.
We built you something new, and it's live in beta today.
First Five Games is a small library of quick, classroom-friendly games designed for the moments in your day when you need a reset. Brain breaks. Transitions between subjects. Friday afternoon rewards. The five minutes before lunch when the room is buzzing and you need everyone focused on something light.
No downloads. No accounts. Just press play.
You can find it at edtomorrow.com/first-five-games or click "Games" in our website header menu.
What's in the Library
Nine games to start, each tagged by what it asks of students so you can grab the right one for the moment.
Memory Match (Brain). Flip cards and find the pairs. Calm, focused, good for settling a noisy room.
Snake (Arcade). The classic. Eat, grow, don't crash. Great solo or projected for a whole-class cheer.
2048 (Puzzle). Merge matching number tiles to reach 2048. Surprisingly addictive, sneakily mathematical.
Tic Tac Toe (Strategy). Pair up students or play the room against the board. Wins are tracked across sessions.
Word Scramble (Words). Unscramble the letters before the clock runs out. Good warm-up before reading or writing.
Quick Math (Numbers). Rapid-fire math problems for fact fluency without the worksheet.
Pattern Pop (Memory). Watch the pattern, then repeat it. Each round gets longer.
Bubble Pop (Reflex). Tap the bubbles before they float away. Pure quick energy.
Sliding Puzzle (Logic). Slide the tiles into order. Quiet, thinky, satisfying.
Each game tracks your best score on the device, so students can chase their personal records over time.
How Teachers Are Using Them
A few ideas from early testers:
Project Snake or Bubble Pop on the board and let the class cheer on a player for a two-minute reset.
Use Quick Math or Word Scramble as a bell ringer.
Pull up Memory Match when a small group finishes early.
Save Tic Tac Toe and 2048 for Friday rewards.
You know your classroom best. Use them however they help.
Beta Means We're Still Building
Like our new card icons, First Five Games is in beta. The games work, but we're still tuning things, watching what gets used, and adding more. If a game feels off, if you have a request for what to add next, or if you find a clever classroom use we haven't thought of, we want to hear it.
Press play and let us know what you think.
-Edtomorrow Team
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