About the Pizza What's Missing? Game
The world's favourite food gets the deck it deserves — bubbling cheese, wood-fired ovens and every topping worth arguing about. Match a full order before the timer eats into your score.
What's in the Pizza deck
The full deck, so you know what to watch for — 12 pictures: 🍕 Pizza Slice🍅 Tomato🧀 Cheese🍄 Mushroom🫑 Pepper🧅 Onion🌶️ Chilli🫒 Olive🌿 Basil🔥 Pizza Oven👨🍳 Pizzaiolo🇮🇹 Italia
Study tip: link the first three — pizza slice, tomato and cheese — into one ridiculous mental picture. Absurd images stick; lists don't. When a picture vanishes, replay the scene and ask what doesn't fit any more.
How to memorise a food and drink board
Cook the board into a menu. Starter, main, dessert, drink — assign every item a course and walk the meal in order. Food decks memorise like recipes because recipes are already ordered lists with logic to them; a random-looking grid becomes a set menu after one pass.
Use flavour and temperature as handles too. Hot against cold, sweet against sour, breakfast against midnight snack — oppositions are memorable, and most food decks are quietly full of them. When the pancake goes missing, "breakfast foods, left side" is a small question.
How to Play
- Press Start and memorise every picture on the board.
- After a few seconds the board hides and one picture is removed.
- Pick the missing picture from the answer choices.
- Each correct answer adds a bigger board. Three misses ends the game.
Fun Facts About Pizza
- The Margherita pizza was created in Naples in 1889, in the colours of the Italian flag.
- Around 5 billion pizzas are sold worldwide every year.
- True Neapolitan pizza must cook for just 60–90 seconds in a wood-fired oven.
- The Hawaiian pizza was actually invented in Canada.
Food & Drink deck questions
A good theme for playing with children in the kitchen?
Yes — name each item, decide who would eat it, argue about dessert. Food vocabulary is everyday vocabulary, so the deck doubles as a language game for small children and English learners.
Any trick for the drinks versus foods mix-ups?
Group them first thing: everything you pour on one side, everything you slice on the other. Food decks punish players who scan randomly more than any other theme.