Quizizz join code, now Wayground: where students enter it, and why it says the game was not found

2026-10-21

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Short answer: students go to joinmyquiz.com or wayground.com, tap Enter code, type the number the teacher is showing and enter a name. No account is needed for a live game. If the site says the game was not found, the code has expired, the game has not started, or one digit is wrong.

Quizizz was renamed Wayground in 2025, and the Quizizz join code did not change with it. It is still a number the teacher shows on the board, and it still goes into the same box.

What changed is the logo, which is why half the class now asks whether they are on the wrong site. They are not.

Where the code comes from

A teacher at the front of a classroom pointing at a projector screen while students look at laptops

▲ The code lives on the teacher's screen, and only while the game is open

The teacher opens a quiz and chooses Start a live quiz. The waiting room then shows a code of several digits, usually six, with a QR code beside it.

That code belongs to that one game. Close the game, start it again, and a new code appears. Yesterday's code never works today.

Homework is different. Assigning a quiz gives a link instead of a code, or students open it from a class they joined earlier.

Where students type the Quizizz join code

On any device, open a browser and go to joinmyquiz.com, or to wayground.com and tap Enter code. Type the number, tap Join, type a name.

Students who already have the app tap Join on the first screen and type the same number.

No login is needed for a live game, unless the teacher turned on Require login or assigned the quiz to a class. Then the student has to be signed in to the account that is in that class.

Half the "wrong code" complaints are really this setting. The student is signed in to a personal Google account, not the school one.

Why the game was not found

Five reasons a game code is refused, in the order to check them

▲ Check in this order, and most of them end at the first two

The game has not started. The quiz is open on the teacher's screen, but Start has not been pressed, so the code is not live yet.
The game is over. The teacher ended it, or time ran out, and the code died with it.
One digit is wrong. A 6 read as an 8 from the back row. Asking the teacher to read it aloud fixes it faster than squinting.
Wrong kind of code. A class code joins a class. A game code joins one game. Class codes contain letters, game codes do not.
Login required. See above. Sign out of the personal account, sign in to the school one.

When the teacher's link has to reach a student's device

Say the quiz is set as homework, and a student is on a school Chromebook that is not signed in to their account. The link is on the teacher's phone, or in an email on the desk PC.

Reading a link aloud takes a minute and three attempts. Writing it on the board takes longer, and someone still mistypes it.

Getting a long link from the teacher's phone to a student's Chromebook in four digits

▲ Paste the link on the phone, say four digits, the student types them

ZAGO.TO turns that link into four digits. Paste the link at zago.to on the phone, read the 4-digit code out loud, and the student types it at zago.to on the Chromebook. The link appears, ready to tap. No account and no app on either side.

The same move, for a whole class that is half logged in, is in How to share a link with students when half the class is not logged in yet.

It has limits, and in a classroom they matter. ZAGO.TO carries text only, up to 10,000 characters, which means a link or a paragraph, not a worksheet file. The text is deleted 1 minute after it is opened, or after 1 minute if nobody opens it, and cannot be opened twice, so one code serves one student. Our server can read what passes through, since in-browser encryption is not built yet, so a student password never goes this way.

For a whole room, the code on the projector is still the right tool. A six-digit game code is already a short number everyone can type. Four digits only help with the link that is not a game code.

Other game sites use codes the same way, each with its own quirks: Kahoot, Blooket and Gimkit.

One-line answer

Type the code the teacher is showing at joinmyquiz.com, no account needed, and if the game was not found, the code has moved on. For a link that has to reach a device without a login, four digits at zago.to.