Student's Scratch Addiction

As we approach the second semester, and everyone is settling into school, a certain website is starting to get a lot of attention from Lakeside students…

On Thursday, December 4, 2025, the 5th graders had a very serious talk about playing Scratch games. Ms. Hagen, the 5th grade dean, asked Mr. Miller to run the statistics of how long 5th grade students played Scratch from 8 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. (during school hours) for that week, and shockingly, about half of the students had played Scratch for one hour or more, and some had even played for over five hours!

We put a survey in the Daily to see how long students played across grades and what games people played, which we have the results from throughout our article.

Most people said they did play games on Scratch, as you can see above. Many said they play Appel, a platforming game made by Griffpatch. Many also mentioned they played remixes of Appel, such as Appel Hacked, Appel Desert, and other variations. Platforming games of all types, though, seemed super popular. Two of these popular platforming games were Tower Jump and Mello.

Other games that students said they played were Starlight Odyssey, a roleplay story game that is based off the Warrior Cats series, other games made by Griffpatch, Froggy Valley, Super Mario Bros., Epic Ninja, Headsoccer, Jelly Jump, The Ninja 5, Arena, Geometry Dash, and others that you can see right below this paragraph! Most of the responses that we got for how long people played were under 1 hour per week, the specific numbers and location you can see below.

One thing students often debate about is how they pronounce the title of Griffpatch’s famous game, Appel. One of our questions was about this, and half of our answers were that students pronounced it “a-pell” or “uh-pell.” The other half was people saying they pronounced it as, “ah-ple,” like the fruit or that they don’t play, as you can see from the graph below.

In conclusion, Scratch games have become quite popular and a lot of students think they’re really fun. Teachers find Scratch helpful because it teaches students how to code, but they also think that students play Scratch games for much too long. Thanks for reading!