Play a quiz in Reel Rush

Press Host on a set and choose Reel Rush from the game modes. Its own rules appear under Game settings. Timed ends the game when the clock runs out, and the heaviest haul wins; set the minutes, from 1 to 60, with 7 to begin with. Race to a weight ends it the moment one player’s catch reaches the target you set, a million kilograms to begin with. Leave Show instructions on for a class that has not played before. Randomize questions starts on in this mode, so every game asks the set in a new order.

Press Start hosting and the lobby appears, the same one as in a Classic game: the room code, the QR code and the join address, with each player’s name and robot arriving as they come in. You can still change the time or the target here, until you press Start.

With Show instructions on, every phone opens on How to play: tap to cast and tap again to reel in, answer right to land the catch, right answers unlock better lures, watch for the Golden Tide, and the heaviest haul wins. The Gone fishing! button unlocks after five seconds, and the phone moves on by itself after a minute.

Each turn starts at the dock, with the player’s own robot holding the rod. A card at the top shows their lure and how many more right answers the next one needs. The bar along the top shows the lure level, the kilograms caught so far, the time left, and the trophy that opens the leaderboard. A tap anywhere on the picture casts.

After a second or two, something bites, and the phone shouts Hooked! with a sign that hints at its size: Something small…, Something on the line…, Something big… or Something HUGE…. The size is honest: it comes from how rare the creature is. A tap reels it in, and the question appears.

The question comes up on the phone, under a strip that still shows the size of what is on the line, so a player knows when a big one is at stake. The answers are in the usual colours, and every question type works as it does in a Classic game.

A right answer lands the catch, shown on its own card: the rarity across the top, the creature, its name and how many kilograms it weighs, which go straight onto the player’s haul. The first of each kind says New in your collection!, and under it are the player’s total and place. A tap anywhere casts again.

A wrong answer loses the catch. The phone says It got away! and marks the right answer (a typed answer is written out instead), so the player leaves knowing it, and a ring counts down three seconds before they can cast again.

Every player starts with the level 1 lure, which mostly brings up junk and common fish. Right answers earn better ones: level 2 at 4 right answers, level 3 at 9, level 4 at 15 and level 5 at 22. Each new lure comes with its own card, saying when the next one arrives. With a better lure, the rare, epic and legendary creatures come up more often, and only the higher lures reach the mythic ones.

Rare, Epic, Legendary and Mythic creatures are where the big numbers are: an octopus weighs hundreds of kilograms, a whale far more, and the Kraken over a million. The card says how rare the catch is, and it goes up in the Catch Log on the room screen, with who caught it.

Every catch has a small chance of starting a Golden Tide. For 20 seconds every player’s lure is a level better, even the best one, and a golden strip across the top of each phone counts the seconds down. The room screen shows it too, with who started it, so the whole class knows to fish fast.

While the students fish, the screen at the front shows the leaderboard by weight, with each player’s lure and best catch beside their name. The Catch Log lists every rare catch and better as it is landed, and the card under it shows the biggest catch so far and who landed it. A Golden Tide runs across the top while it lasts. The clock or the target is at the top, beside the join address. To stop early, press End game and confirm.

When the clock runs out, someone reaches the target, or you end the game, the room screen shows the Final Standings: third, then second, then the winner, with the kilograms each one caught.

Each phone points the player to the big screen while the podium plays, then shows their own place among the players around them, their best catch, how many of the 28 kinds are in their collection, and how many questions they got right.

Press See results under the podium for the full results: every player with a bar of right and wrong answers, how many they got right out of how many they answered, and the weight of their haul. The Questions tab turns it round: how often each question was answered right across the whole room.

If you are signed in, the game is saved in Reports when it ends. Each student’s row shows the share of their answers that were right, with their kilograms beside it, and By accuracy puts the list in that order, since what bites is partly luck. Pick a student to see every question: the first answer they gave, and, when it came round again, how many times they answered it and how many of those were right.