When you’re creating a kahoot, you can combine different question types in one game. For guidance on the creator in our mobile app, read this article instead.
Looking for jumble, survey, discussion kahoot types?
To get started, click on the “Add question” button to see the different question types.
Click a question type below to learn more.
Quiz types (points)
Poll types (no points)
Content types (no question)
Quiz
Create a multiple-choice question with right and wrong answers.
Fast facts about quiz questions:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- Timer options range from 5 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Answers can be up to 75 characters. At least 2 answers are required (4 max), and one must be toggled correct. Questions are “multichoice”, not “multi-response”: while you can add multiple correct answers, participants can only choose one. Participants are awarded points for choosing a correct answer.
- To increase engagement and visually support the question, you can upload an image from your computer or from our image library, or embed a YouTube video. Images must be in PNG, JPEG, or GIF format, in RGB color mode, as well as no larger than 5MB, 3264x3264 pixels. Videos will play before the timer starts, but after answer options are revealed. Participants can choose an answer while the video plays. If you don’t want the entire video to play, you can set “start at” and “stop at” times. These must be in seconds (e.g.: “75”, not “1:15”).
True or false
Create a question with true and false answers pre-filled.
Fast facts about true or false:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- Timer options range from 5 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Answers are pre-filled with “True” and “False” options. The text cannot be edited. Only one can be toggled correct. Participants are awarded points for choosing the correct answer.
- To increase engagement and visually support the question, you can upload an image from your computer or from our image library, or embed a YouTube video. Images must be in PNG, JPEG, or GIF format, in RGB color mode, as well as no larger than 5MB, 3264x3264 pixels. Videos will play before the timer starts, but after answer options are revealed. Participants can choose an answer while the video plays. If you don’t want the entire video to play, you can set “start at” and “stop at” times. These must be in seconds (e.g.: “75”, not “1:15”).
Open-ended (Premium feature)
With open-ended quiz questions, you can eliminate guesswork and test how well learners recall content without cues by asking them to type the correct short answer! Players type in an answer which is validated instantly.
Fast facts about open-ended questions:
- Open-ended quiz questions are designed to complement other question types! To keep the audience engaged, we don’t recommend adding several open-ended quiz questions in a row.
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- Timer options range from 20 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Answers can be up to 20 characters. At least 1 answer is required (4 max).
- Participants are awarded points for typing a correct answer.
- Correct answers are not case-sensitive. Multiple spaces count as a single space. Emojis only count if there is no other text. The following punctuation is not validated: ~ ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) { } [ ] ; : " ' < , . > ? / \ | - _ + =
- To increase engagement and visually support the question, you can upload an image from your computer or from our image library, or embed a YouTube video. Images must be in PNG, JPEG, or GIF format, in RGB color mode, as well as no larger than 5MB, 3264x3264 pixels. Videos will play before the timer starts, but after answer options are revealed. Participants can choose an answer while the video plays. If you don’t want the entire video to play, you can set “start at” and “stop at” times. These must be in seconds (e.g.: “75”, not “1:15”).
- To unlock this feature, you’ll need a Kahoot! Premium for businesses, Kahoot! Premium for higher ed, or Kahoot! Premium for schools subscription.
Puzzle (Premium feature)
Create a question with answers that must be sorted into the correct order. For example, you can sort math operators to logically complete a formula, order historical events, or arrange a series of steps to create a logical process.
Fast facts about puzzles:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- Timer options range from 20 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Answers are editable up to 75 characters. All four answer options are required. Only one sequence can be correct. Participants are awarded points for sorting answers into the correct sequence.
- To increase engagement and visually support the question, you can upload an image from your computer or from our image library, or embed a YouTube video. Images must be in PNG, JPEG, or GIF format, in RGB color mode, as well as no larger than 5MB, 3264x3264 pixels. Videos will play before the timer starts, but after answer options are revealed. Participants can choose an answer while the video plays. If you don’t want the entire video to play, you can set “start at” and “stop at” times. These must be in seconds (e.g.: “75”, not “1:15”).
- To unlock this feature, you’ll need to upgrade to Kahoot! Pro.
Poll (Premium feature)
Create a question to survey your audience - no answers are right or wrong here. Participants won’t be awarded points and will not see a leaderboard afterward.
Fast facts about polls:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- Timer options range from 5 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Answers can be up to 75 characters. At least 2 answers are required (4 max). Questions are “multichoice”, not “multi-response”: while you can add multiple answers, participants can only choose one.
- To increase engagement and visually support the question, you can upload an image from your computer or from our image library, or embed a YouTube video. Images must be in PNG, JPEG, or GIF format, in RGB color mode, as well as no larger than 5MB, 3264x3264 pixels. Videos will play before the timer starts, but after answer options are revealed. Participants can choose an answer while the video plays. If you don’t want the entire video to play, you can set “start at” and “stop at” times. These must be in seconds (e.g.: “75”, not “1:15”).
- To unlock this feature, you’ll need to upgrade to Kahoot! Pro.
Word cloud (Premium feature)
Give every participant a voice and see their input visualized. With this question type, participants won’t be awarded points and won’t see a leaderboard afterward.
Fast facts about polls:
- Questions can be up to 120 characters.
- Timer options range from 20 seconds to 4 minutes.
- Participants can enter short answers up to 20 characters, which will display in a word cloud. The most popular responses will display in a larger font.
- To increase engagement and visually support the question, you can upload an image from your computer or from our image library, or embed a YouTube video. Images must be in PNG, JPEG, or GIF format, in RGB color mode, as well as no larger than 5MB, 3264x3264 pixels. Videos will play before the timer starts, but after answer options are revealed. Participants can choose an answer while the video plays. If you don’t want the entire video to play, you can set “start at” and “stop at” times. These must be in seconds (e.g.: “75”, not “1:15”).
- To unlock this feature, you’ll need a Kahoot! Premium for businesses or Kahoot! Premium for higher ed subscription.
Slide (Premium feature)
Add a slide to offer additional information. In a live game, presenters can take a moment to provide explanation, elaborate, and discuss information. During a challenge, the participants read the information before moving to the next question.
Fast facts about slides:
- To keep the audience engaged, you need to have at least one question after a slide. You can’t add several slides in a row.
- Titles can be up to 50 characters.
- Descriptions can be up to 250 characters.
- To increase engagement and visually support the question, you can upload an image from your computer or from our image library, or embed a YouTube video. Images must be in PNG, JPEG, or GIF format, in RGB color mode, as well as no larger than 5MB, 3264x3264 pixels. If you don’t want the entire video to play, you can set “start at” and “stop at” times. These must be in seconds (e.g.: “75”, not “1:15”).
- To unlock this feature, you’ll need to upgrade to Kahoot! Pro.
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15 comments
It would be cool to be able to make a mix of two modes ex: Jumble and Quiz as lets say you have a quiz about a game so first question is a quiz ex: what is the best weapon. Then the next would be a jumble ex: what is the best weapon. This would make it simpler as you would not have to make 2
Yes I would like to do that to, I was wondering if that was possible, but ok I think it´s not.. Too bad!
How do i disable points for certain quiz questions now?
So what happens to my old surveys if I don't upgrade to Pro?
I had an idea where the features such as polls and slides could be premium features for now, but then be realized to the public later. Kind of like a beta feature!
I generally like the idea of Kahoot! Thanks for this interesting product. However, I must say that I am not 100% convinced by the game design.The fact that you can have multiple correct answers, but players can only choose one answer instead of "logging in" all the correct answers, sort of defeats the purpose of multiple correct answers. So basically one correct answer and three blanks are the standard which I find very limiting questionwise. The fact that this isn´t a bug, but a feature makes me doubt that I will use Kahoot a lot in my lessons!
Please, I want two slides in a row.
It would greatly benefit the users and creators of personal Kahoot! presentations and quizzes with a little more flexibility in regards to allowing two slides in a row. Trying to use Kahoot! as a safety presentation with questions imbedded is not possible without allowing multiple slides before a question.
Very good changes! Thx. But true/false questions are in english only? Can I somehow change it so that I don't have all quizz in polish and true/false answers in english?
how do I get slides, puzzle , bank feature
Having more slides in a row would be much more better for explanation.
Does Jumble have to be a premium feature? It's a really fun question type, and I don't understand why non-premium users can no longer make Jumble quizzes. Could you please make Jumble a free feature again? :(
Why can you only have 100 questions?
Can we extend the character limit for the answers on open ended questions because 20 isn’t enough when I was trying this feature out.
Please include an audio recording feature (so I record a word or a phrase and the students write the answers based on what they hear.)
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