Chumash Baseball
The classroom review game that started it all.
How it started
As a substitute rebbi, I asked around for a simple game I could play in any classroom with minimal prep. One game kept coming up, and I kept going back to it: Chumash Baseball.
I drew a baseball diamond on the whiteboard and wrote down the teams. When a student got an answer right, I spun a spinner on the smartboard that showed what the question was worth — a single, a double, a home run — and I'd write and erase the players around the bases. The boys loved it and asked for it every time I subbed.
The problem: it was hard to set up and run. So I made it digital — and then added more sports as students asked for them.
— Rabbi Berel Steinerman, founder of Menchmark.app and the rebbi who built Review Day Games
How to play
- Pick your teams — type them in, or load a class you saved in My classes.
- Ask a Chumash question out loud — from your own review sheet, the pasuk, or Rashi.
- Right answer: spin. The wheel says single, double, triple or home run (and now and then a pop out), and the runners move around the bases by themselves.
- Wrong answer: an out — or Bobbled!, and another student in the room gets a chance at the same question. The game keeps the score, the innings and the outs, and you can fix anything with Undo.
Coming soon: this week's parsha, ready to play
Questions from the Chumash and Rashi text of the week's parsha, loaded into the game with one tap.
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Then the students asked for more
The same way to play — your questions, two teams, one screen — in every sport:
- 🏈 First & TenFootball
- 🏀 Buzzer BeaterBasketball
- ⚽ Top CornerSoccer
- 🪢 One RopeTug of war
- 🎳 Bowling2–4 teams
- 🪜 Ladder Race1st grade
Keep your classes in My classes and every finished game in My history — on this computer, no accounts. Or see all the games.