The Arcade · Classroom games
Quick games that start the real conversation.
Ungraded classroom games on college costs, debt, and money decisions, built on real data. The teacher hosts on the projector, students join on their laptops with a game code, and nobody makes an account.
In class
Set up in a minute.
01
Host
Open the Arcade on the projector and pick a game.
02
Join
Students enter the game code on their laptops. No login, no email.
03
Reveal
Every answer explains why, with the data source on screen.
The games
Four games, one period or less.
College High/Low
- Higher or lower on real College Scorecard data: what families actually pay, what a typical loan costs each month, and how many students finish.
Debt or Alive
- Part of The Debt Files. See how one fact turns the same debt from a tool into a trap.
Sticker Shock
- Part of The Debt Files. See what borrowing really costs once interest and fees are added up.
Good, Bad, or Depends?
- Judge money decisions at your own pace, and spot what a decision really depends on. Plays solo, too.
Free, no login.
The Arcade is offered free to schools through The Finance Lab.