--- title: This New Training Game Is *Chef's Kiss* description: In this webinar, attendees learned how to build a Noodle game and when you might want to use this new game style in your training content. image: https://blog.elblearning.com/hubfs/This%20New%20Training%20Game%20Is%20_Chef_s%20Kiss__Blog%20Featured%20Image%20700x306.png --- [![ELB-Learning_Logo_ColorRGB-white-text-1](https://blog.elblearning.com/hubfs/ELB-Learning_Logo_ColorRGB-white-text-1.png) ](https://elblearning.com/) ![This New Training Game Is *Chef's Kiss*](https://blog.elblearning.com/hubfs/This%20New%20Training%20Game%20Is%20_Chef_s%20Kiss__Blog%20Featured%20Image%20700x306.png) # This New Training Game Is *Chef's Kiss* by [Stephanie Ivec](https://blog.elblearning.com/author/stephanie-ivec) | Nov 15, 2023 We recently launched Noodle, a word-guessing puzzle game in [The Training Arcade®](https://www.elblearning.com/create-learning/the-training-arcade-games). Noodle is perfect for leveraging the power of microlearning through a fun and familiar game mechanic. In this webinar with Ellen Burns-Johnson, Lead Game Designer at ELB Learning, attendees learned how to build a Noodle game. Ellen also covered when you might want to use this new game style in your training content. ## What Is the Noodle Game? Noodle is a word-guessing puzzle game. The name is a play on the phrase “it’ll bake your noodle,” meaning “it’ll really make you think.”  ### How It Works: - A puzzle is a mystery word that is 3 to 7 letters long. There is a maximum of 10 puzzles per session.  - The mystery word is represented by a row of squares on the screen—one empty square for each letter.  - Players guess the word by entering letters, submitting their guess, and interpreting the game’s letter-by-letter feedback on the guess.  - Players have a limited number of attempts to guess the word and solve the puzzle. ## Instructional Applications for the Noodle Word Puzzle Game From a knowledge check to knowledge reinforcement, Noodle fits well into your existing training strategy. It’s a great way to generate interest before a training event and to remind your workers what they learned after a session. ### Build Curiosity Puzzles create a meaningful, more intriguing challenge than a simple text-based quiz or knowledge check. They’re also great for pre-training activities to get your learners interested in a topic.  ### Increase Engagement You can mix in more interactivity with games, creating a nice break from text-based content and documents. ### Reinforce Learning The replayability and repetitive nature of games lead to stronger recall. ### Have More Touchpoints Mixing games between sessions and training days gives your learners more opportunities to interact with your training content. ## Common Design Questions When Building Noodle **Question**: *From an Instructional Design perspective, how should I think about a category versus a prompt?* Answer: A category refers to a domain of knowledge. Suppose you’re creating learning about cybersecurity. Some categories within that might be hacking methods, avenues of risk, information hygiene, etc.  A prompt is a question or phrase that relates to the solution word. In the webinar, Ellen showed a great example of using an AI chatbot to quickly write puzzles for a Noodle game, which helps answer the following questions. **Question**: *What if my word is longer than seven letters?* **Question**: *Do all prompts need to be formatted the same way?* **Question**: *What about numbers?* Answer: AI can help you come up with questions, suggest different words if your chosen words are too long to fit in a Noodle game, and more. ###### Ellen’s suggested prompt for AI is: I’m working on a word puzzle game about __________.  Can you summarize the following source content into five words, each of which is between 3 and 7 letters? For each word, explain how the word relates to the concepts from the source content below. Here’s the source content: [paste your source content] ### Watch the webinar recording to see a Noodle game in action and learn more about the behind-the-scenes analytics every Training Arcade game delivers. --- ### Not familiar with The Training Arcade®? Get a free trial [here](https://hub.elearningbrothers.com/training-arcade-free-trial). The Training Arcade features 11 pre-built game templates (including JEOPARDY!® and Wheel of Fortune®). Add your own content, and build a game in minutes (no coding required). Publish the game with a URL, embed it into an eLearning course, or download it as a SCORM package for your LMS. 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