This document provides instructions for creating a picture reveal game using PowerPoint. Teachers can select a background image and hide it behind numbered boxes on slides. When students select numbers, one box is revealed for 5 seconds, allowing them to see a section of the hidden picture. The goal is for students to guess the full picture based on the individual sections. Changing the background image on the master slide allows for creating multiple versions of this guessing game with different pictures.

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12. PICTURE REVEAL Once you’ve read this, you can delete this slide. All you need to do is: Open the presentation (you’ve done that already) Go to VIEW, MASTER, SLIDE MASTER Right click on the MASTER SLIDE. Choose BACKGROUND, FILL EFFECTS, PICTURE and browse to the picture of your choice. Set this as the backgound on the master slides and all other slides will now have this picture hidden by the boxes. Ask pupils to choose a number and this will reveal one square. They have 5 seconds to look and guess, then click HOME. They need to keep in mind what they’ve seen as they only get one section of the picture at a time. Once someone gets the correct answer, click home then click on the INFORMATION action button to reveal the actual picture. Students could also be asked to talk about the section they see, or name 3 things they can identify etc… So by changing the picture on the MASTER SLIDE you can create as many of these as you like. Alan Parkinson, adapted from picture-board by John Hamshaw on SLN Geography