The Alexandria Board Games
Roll the dice and explore the ancient city with Philo, Sophia, Marcos and Demetria. The same streets, a different challenge in each game, at five levels, from beginner to proficiency. Sixteen games: eight for learners everywhere, and the eight original versions for Spanish speakers.
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Eight games, at five levels, from beginner to proficiency
The Streets of Alexandria
Roll the dice and explore the ancient city with Philo, Sophia, Marcos and Demetria. Every place on the map has its own grammar challenge, at five levels, with a scary character or two along the way.
Play →The Words of Alexandria
The same city and the same streets, but this time you are hunting words instead of tenses: false friends, confusing pairs and everyday vocabulary, one stop at a time.
Play →The Idioms of Alexandria
The same city, the same dice, and a new challenge: idioms. What do they mean, when do we use them, and can you finish them? From ‘Good luck!’ to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’.
Play →The Word Builder of Alexandria
Prefixes and suffixes at every place, false friends, the Cambridge “word in capitals” and spelling, from unhappy to irreconcilable.
Play →The Phrasal Verbs of Alexandria
Up at the Pharos, off at the quay, away in the Necropolis: every place has its own particle. What do they mean, which particle fits, and where does the pronoun go? From get up to fritter away.
Play →The Sentences of Alexandria
Build them, join them, transform them and mend them: word order, linkers, relative clauses, reported speech, the Cambridge “same meaning” and inversion, from Where do you live? to Little did they know.
Play →The Prepositions of Alexandria
In, on and at; into and across; by and with; afraid of and depend on; beside and besides; and the verbs that need no preposition at all, from at the door to in lieu of.
Play →The Collocations of Alexandria
Make or do? Heavy rain or strong rain? Meet a deadline, foot the bill, a stroke of luck, a splitting headache: every place has its own word partners.
Play →For Spanish speakers · Para hispanohablantes
The original versions, which compare English with Spanish at every step: false friends, idioms and the typical mistakes of Spanish speakers. Explanations in Spanish. Página en español →
The Streets of Alexandria
Recorre la ciudad con Philo, Sophia, Marcos y Demetria. Cada lugar del mapa tiene su reto de gramática, en cinco niveles, con las trampas típicas del hispanohablante: desde “I have twelve years” hasta el present perfect con yesterday.
Play →The Words of Alexandria
La misma ciudad, ahora a la caza de palabras: falsos amigos como library, carpet y embarrassed, y palabras cotidianas que no se parecen en nada al español.
Play →The Idioms of Alexandria
¿Cómo se dice “costar un ojo de la cara” o “ser pan comido”? Qué significan los modismos, qué dice el inglés en lugar del español, y cómo terminarlos.
Play →The Word Builder of Alexandria
Prefijos y sufijos en cada lugar, falsos amigos del español, la “word in capitals” de Cambridge y la ortografía: de unhappy a irreconcilable.
Play →The Phrasal Verbs of Alexandria
Cada lugar tiene su partícula. Qué significan, qué dice el inglés en lugar del español (“criar” es bring up, “rendirse” es give up) y dónde va el pronombre.
Play →The Sentences of Alexandria
Ordena, une, transforma y corrige oraciones: orden de palabras, conectores, oraciones de relativo, estilo indirecto, la “same meaning” de Cambridge y la inversión.
Play →The Prepositions of Alexandria
In, on y at; by bus (no in bus); depend on (no depend of), married to (no married with), discuss sin about; beside y besides. Las preposiciones que más fallan los hispanohablantes, de at the door a in lieu of.
Play →The Collocations of Alexandria
Make o do, take a photo (no make a photo), heavy rain (no strong rain), a piece of advice (no an advice), earn o win, lend o borrow: las colocaciones que más fallan los hispanohablantes, en quince lugares de la ciudad.
Play →Games marked 📱 let each player answer, write or bet from their own phone, with one screen for the whole class.
Every Alexandria game links to the guide to the places of Alexandria.
All sixteen Alexandria games are free, with no sign-up.