Build a quiz game about your favorite thing with AI

A step-by-step AI project for kids 8 to 13: plan a quiz about anything you love, write it with AI, catch its mistakes, and turn it into a game your family can play.

Who

Ages 8 to 13

Time

20 minutes

You’ll make

A quiz game your family can play tonight

This is the project most kids pick first in Tinkertable, and for good reason. You get to be the expert on something you love, AI does the heavy lifting, and at the end you have a game that stumps your parents.

What you need

• A topic you know a lot about: an animal, a sport, a video game, a book series, space
• About 20 minutes
• A grown-up nearby to be your first player

Step 1: Plan it like a game designer

Before you ask AI anything, decide three things. Write them down:

• Who’s playing? (Your little sister? Your whole family?)
• How many questions? (5 is quick, 10 feels like a real quiz)
• What happens at the end? (A score? A funny title like “Shark Master”?)

Step 2: Ask AI to write the questions

Use your plan in the prompt. Swap in your own topic and details:

I’m 9 and I know a lot about sharks. Write a 10-question quiz about sharks for my family. Mix easy and hard questions. Give 3 answer choices for each. After each answer, add one fun fact. Put the answer key at the end.

Step 3: Be the fact-checker

Here’s the part that makes you smarter than the AI. Pick 3 questions and check them in a book, on a trusted website, or with a grown-up. AI sometimes gets facts wrong while sounding totally sure.

Step 4: Make it yours

Ask for changes until it feels like your game:

• “Make questions 1 to 3 easier for my 6-year-old cousin.”
• “Add a bonus question worth double points.”
• “Give me 3 funny titles for different scores, like ‘Shark Snack’ for 0 to 3.”

Step 5: Play it

Read the questions out loud at dinner, keep score on paper, and crown a winner. Then ask your players what was too hard or too easy, and improve it. That’s exactly how real game designers work.

Level up: make it a real app

In Tinkertable, your coach turns your plan into a working quiz app with buttons, a score and your fun facts, usually in about a minute. You can change it any time by just saying what you want, and it’s saved in My projects to share with your family.

By Tom Kieley, founder of Tinkertable. Updated November 9, 2026.