A starter has to start. If the first four minutes are a login, a loading spinner or a “create your class” wall, it is not a starter. The daily-puzzle shape that Wordle made obvious — one set for everyone, short, shareable without spoiling — is a better fit for the beginning of a geography period than a 40-question bank.

What the daily actually is

MyGeoQuiz’s daily challenge is 15 multiple-choice questions, the same mix for everyone that calendar day: three flags, three capitals, three landmarks, three dishes, three world facts. Twelve seconds each, so there is no time to search. One pass; come back tomorrow. Double XP if you care about the site’s level names, which a class mostly will not.

A two-minute starter works when every desk is looking at the same 15 questions

Why “the same 15” matters

A random quiz gives every student a different paper. You cannot talk about question 7. A daily gives you a shared object: the flag that fooled half the room, the capital that is not the famous city, the landmark people file under the wrong country. That is a conversation, not a score. The spoiler-free share grid — five green or red squares per row, three rows — is how a student can post a result without handing the answers to the next period.

Streaks live on the device

Play on consecutive days and a streak counter goes up. It is stored in the browser, not on an account. A shared classroom machine will not keep a child’s streak. That is a limitation, not a bug: there is no login to forget. Treat the streak as optional. The starter is the 15 questions, not the fire icon.

How to run it in a room

• •Projector, one copy. You click; the room shouts. Fastest for a mixed class, and nobody needs a device.
• •Each student on a laptop. Same 15, own score, own share card. Fine if the network holds. Scores will not sync to you.
• •Paper backup. If the network is down, a blank outline from the printables pages is the starter instead. It is a different skill — location on a map, not a flag — and that is fine.

What to pair it with

The daily is a mix, not a scheme of work. If yesterday’s misses were African flags, take the Africa flag quiz after the starter instead of rolling into a full world set. Continent pages exist for that. If the misses were capitals that are not the famous city, Canberra is the article to send home, not another random 15.

Bookmark the daily, run it once at the bell, talk about the two questions that split the room, then teach the lesson you actually planned. That is the whole product.