Make your own Jeopardy game, then play it on the big screen

How a game works

1. 1

   Build the board

   Add categories and clues, set the point values, and write the answer for each square. Values are free text, so a themed board can play for sips or chores instead of dollars.

2. 2

   Put it on the big screen

   Host from a laptop on the TV or projector. For a buzzer battle, players open pardytime.app on their phones and type the PIN: no app and no account for players.

3. 3

   Pick, answer, judge

   A team picks a square and the clue fills the screen. Either that team answers, or the first phone to buzz does. You mark it right or wrong, or let the next team try.

What you get

• Take turns or buzz in

  Take turns needs no phones at all: teams pick and answer in order. Buzzer battle turns every phone into a buzzer, with a countdown for the team that buzzed first.

• One phone per team

  Every phone that joins plays as its own team, so a table can share one phone. You can also add teams without a phone and score them from the host screen.

• Pictures, audio and video in clues

  A clue can be text, a photo, an audio clip or a YouTube video. Blur or pixelate part of a photo to make a picture clue harder.

• You stay in charge

  Wrong answers lose points unless you switch that off. Adjust a score by hand, cancel a question that went wrong, or hand the pick to someone else.

Where it works best

• In the classroom

  Review a unit with the board on the projector and teams buzzing from shared tablets or phones.

  How to play Jeopardy in the classroom

• Game night at home

  A board about the people in the room, a decade, or a show everyone watched beats any boxed game.

  Quiz night ideas

• At work

  A 25-square board about your own company fills twenty minutes of an all-hands and works with remote people too.

  Company trivia questions

Guides to go with it