How the games work
Each family below is a way of asking a question. Inside it, each named format is a separate, finished game engine.
Sort it, fast
Arcade sorting. An item appears - a transaction, an account name, a document - and the student sends it to the right bucket before the clock or the screen runs out. These build the instant recognition that everything later depends on.
Build the journal entry
The core skill of the whole course. The student picks the accounts, chooses the side, and enters the amounts - sometimes reading the figures straight off a realistic invoice or delivery note first.
Build the statement
A blank financial statement and a pile of accounts. The student places each one in the correct section, in the correct order, and the subtotals have to come out right.
Work it out, step by step
Calculations that are shown as a shape, not a formula: a waterfall, a shrinking bar, a payment schedule that fills row by row. Each step is checked before the next one opens, so a student never carries a mistake forward.
Watch, then try
The teaching format. An animated diagram explains an idea one beat at a time - the DEALER chart, the nine-step cycle - and the student answers as it goes. These are where a new topic is introduced.
Check what you know
Recall and judgement. Multiple choice, choose-all-that-apply, matching pairs, yes-or-no calls, and grids where the student marks what goes up and what goes down. Used for openers, vocabulary, and end-of-chapter reviews.
See it across time
Two formats built for the ideas students find hardest: when cash moves versus when the work is really done, and how a mistake in one year quietly reverses itself in the next.
The big finish
Capstones. One long scenario runs through several stages - read it, record it, sort it, prove it - or a full analyst dashboard where the student picks the exact lines that feed a ratio.
Every picture above is a real game, caught mid-play - not a drawing and not a mock-up. Better still, play one yourself: forty-one games are open to the public.