Figure It Out
Simile, metaphor, or something else entirely
About Figure It Out
Tell a simile from a metaphor, spot personification and hyperbole, and work out what an idiom actually means. Every answer explains itself.
Ankhdase tracks 3 distinct skills in Figure It Out, including Figurative language, Idioms & expressions and Vocabulary. Because mastery is estimated per skill rather than per game, the questions shift toward whatever a student is getting wrong — and away from what they have already proved they know.
How to play
- Read the sentence and decide what kind of figurative language it uses.
- Early rounds stick to simile versus metaphor — the one everybody mixes up.
- Later rounds add personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia and idioms.
- Every miss explains exactly what made it that device.
Skills Figure It Out practices
- Figurative language
- Idioms & expressions
- Vocabulary
Mastery is estimated separately for each of these, which is what lets the difficulty move independently — a student can be fluent on one and still be fed easier questions on another.
Questions about Figure It Out
- Is Figure It Out free to play?
- Yes. Figure It Out is free, runs in any modern browser, and needs no download or plugin. You can play straight away without an account; signing in is only needed if you want progress, streaks and badges saved.
- What age is Figure It Out for?
- Figure It Out suits ages 8–13 — roughly Grade 3 to Grade 7+. The difficulty adapts as you play, so it stays useful across that whole range rather than being pitched at one year group.
- What does Figure It Out teach?
- It practices Figurative language, Idioms & expressions and Vocabulary. Every question is tagged with the skill it exercises, so progress is tracked skill by skill rather than as one overall score.
- Does Figure It Out work on a tablet or phone?
- Yes. Figure It Out works with touch as well as a mouse, and every drag action has a tap-to-select alternative. Once the page has loaded once it also keeps working offline.
- Can teachers assign Figure It Out?
- Yes. Teachers can create a class, add students in bulk without email addresses, and set Figure It Out as an assignment with a goal — a score, a number of minutes, stars or a typing speed. Progress updates automatically as students play.