Guides
How to build a Jeopardy game and run it without losing the room — including the slide-deck methods, the rules worth keeping, and an honest look at what the other tools give you.
How to
How to make a Jeopardy game
How to build a custom Jeopardy game: how many clues you need, writing clues that play, the scoring rules, and how to run it on the day.
How to make a Jeopardy game in PowerPoint
Download a free Jeopardy PowerPoint template with every link already made, or build your own: the board grid, thirty clue slides and the links back.
How to make a Jeopardy game in Google Slides
A free Jeopardy template that opens in Google Slides with every link working, or the method to build your own: the grid, the clue slides and the links back.
How to run a Jeopardy review game in class
How to run a Jeopardy review game the whole class plays: team setup, timing, scoring that keeps quiet students in, and the usual failure modes.
Reference
How to give everyone a buzzer
The four ways to run buzz-in — shouting, hands, hardware buzzer sets and phones — and what each costs in fairness, setup time and arguments.
Jeopardy rules, scoring and wagering
Jeopardy rules for running your own game: scoring, board control, Daily Double and Final Jeopardy wagers, ties, negative scores, and which rules to drop.
Free Jeopardy PowerPoint template
A free, blank Jeopardy template for PowerPoint: a linked 6 × 5 board, clue and answer slides and Final Jeopardy. What is in it, how to fill it in and play it.
Jeopardy glossary: every term explained
What Daily Double, Final Jeopardy, board control and every other Jeopardy term actually means, in plain language, for anyone building or hosting their own game.
Or just start writing clues
A full board with phone buzzers and live scoring, free and without an account. Or copy a ready-made board from the library, or read a trivia question list first.