I wanted a ‘family feud’ style gameshow in keynote, but it was a bit complicated trying to make the right answer appear. I found the best way to do it was to have 25 slides with the different possible combinations of hidden/shown answers, then a heap of hyperlinks between various slides depending on what answer was picked. It worked out well. I’ve updated the files for Keynote 6.
The text for the questions and answers is on the master slide. To change the answers, edit the master slide. To do this select ‘Edit Master Slide’ and edit the text fields that have the answers. Be careful not to move any fields around, just edit the text in them.
To play the game, start the slideshow at slide number 1.
If there is a corrrect answer guessed, click on the appropriate box to reveal that answer – complete with sound effects! For a wrong answer, click anywhere on the background.
Here is a link to the keynote templates – there are two versions:
Version 1
This is a very big version that takes longer to load but has all the sound effects in it.
Version 2 – simplified version.
This is a simplified version that needs the ‘wrong guess’ sound effect to be played from an ipod but it is much faster to load. The slides are also rearranged so you can control it manually by pressing the number keys instead of using a mouse. (e.g. ‘1’ reveals answer 1′, ’12’ reveals answer 1 and 2, ’21’ reveals all except for 1 and 2 and so on.
NOTE – for this version you need to start on slide 6.
Here are the rules from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_feud#Rules_of_the_game
Let me know how it goes!
Here’s a goot tip from Stacey:
Thank you so much for your work! This is awesome – perfect as a review game for my students. But, I was able to make more questions on the same presentation rather than saving a bunch of files. I just copied the two master slides (“Sound†and “No soundâ€) and renamed them (“Question 2 Sound†and “Question 2 No Soundâ€). Then I typed in my second question on the two new master sides. Next, I copy/pasted the sequence of 34 possible answer slides and reapplied the “Question 2 Sound†and “Question 2 No Sound†to the appropriate slides. I ended up making about 25 different questions in one file. Thanks again!
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