What is Zoom Jeopardy?

Zoom Jeopardy lets you host (unofficial) Jeopardy games for friends over Zoom, with all the bells and whistles of the real broadcast show.
You can play over 1,000 full archival Jeopardy games, or write your own clues and answers.

Zoom Jeopardy runs inside TouchDesigner, an application which runs on Mac and Windows and handles the compositing player videos behind the podiums, clues, score keeping, and sound. TouchDesigner is free for noncommercial use.

See User Guide or instructional video for complete setup instructions

 

Download

Download and install Zoom

Download and install TouchDesigner

Download ZoomJeopardy.zip (692 MB)
Link above not working? Download on GitHub

Need a smaller download and don't mind not having commercial breaks in your games? Download this smaller (129 MB) version

 

Setup

Unzip ZoomJeopardy.zip

Open ZoomJeopardy.toe
in TouchDesigner

 

Play!

See User Guide or instructional video for complete, step by step instructions on how to host!

See User Guide or instructional video for complete setup instructions

A part of the web page for other links 

If you use Zoom Jeopardy please let me know! I'd love to know how it's getting used. 

Question, suggestions, or bugs? Contact me on Twitter @mfrederickson

Want to make changes yourself? Check out Zoom Jeopardy on GitHub

Zoom Jeopardy!
Virtual background image for players: https://tinyurl.com/zoombg123

"It's a regular Golden Corral buffet of special features"

  • Over 1,000 archival Jeopardy games
  • Custom game creation
  • Scorekeeping and game board
  • Daily Doubles
  • Final Jeopardy
  • Composite live player and host video
  • Sound effects
  • Commercial breaks
  • End credits! Confetti!
  • Swappable camera angles
  • Arcade carpet patterns!

Zoom Jeopardy exists to give you something a little visually different to do on a Zoom call. Try a weekend game with friends or family, or try making a custom game in someone's honor for a birthday, pre-wedding party, work event, or trivia seance.

Download Zoom Jeopardy today: "it's the most important thing in the world."

A note to official Jeopardy types:

Nobody is making any money off of this. It's just for fun, and reminds people that they like your show.

 Let the people play! ok, thank you