Free online Jeopardy game for work: a Jeopardy-style board
Play this free Jeopardy game in your browser: tap a tile, read the clue, score the teams. 25 original clues you can rewrite, a 2 to 6 team scoreboard, and how to run it on Zoom.
Sample board
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A Jeopardy game is the easiest game show to run at work: teams pick the questions, the board shows the progress, and the scores swing until the last tile. The board above lets you play Jeopardy online on a shared screen, a meeting room TV or a phone, with nothing to install. Use the sample board as is, or treat it as a Jeopardy template and type in your own categories.
How to play Jeopardy: rules for work teams
One host, two or more teams and the board. A full game of 25 clues takes 30 to 40 minutes. New to hosting a quiz? Our guide on how to host a trivia night covers the host's side in more depth.
- Split into teams. Two to six teams of three to six people. Type the team names into the scoreboard.
- Pick who starts. The team with the next birthday is a fair, fast way to decide.
- Choose a category and a value. The picking team says it out loud: "Space for 300."
- Read the clue. The host taps the tile, the clue fills the screen, and the host reads it aloud.
- First team to buzz answers. On TV, answers are phrased as a question ("What is Mars?"). At work, make that optional or a fun house rule.
- Right adds, wrong subtracts. A right answer adds the tile's value. A wrong one takes it away, and another team can try.
- Whoever gets it right picks next. If nobody does, the team that picked last picks again.
- Clear the board. When every tile is played, the highest score wins. Add a final wager round for a close finish.
Virtual Jeopardy: how to play on Zoom or Teams
Virtual Jeopardy works on any video call. The host is the only one who needs this page open.
- Share this page. Open it on the host's laptop, share the browser tab and press Full screen. Everyone sees the same board.
- Name a captain per team. Teams talk it over, but only the captain's answer counts.
- Buzz in the chat. Teams type their team name in the meeting chat. The first name to appear answers. It's fairer than unmuting.
- Give teams a private place to talk. A group chat per team, or breakout rooms between rounds for groups over 20.
- Score with the buttons. Tap plus or minus for each team under the clue. Tap again to undo a call.
In the room, buzz by slapping the table or raising a hand, and put the board on the meeting room TV. Hosting from a phone at a dinner table works too: the board fits the screen and you read the clues aloud.
Scoring and house rules
Right answers add the value and wrong ones subtract it, so a bold team can drop below zero. Pick any of these before you start:
- Daily Double. Before the game, secretly pick one tile. The team that finds it may wager up to its score, or up to 500 if it has less.
- Final round. Every team writes a wager, then hears one last clue. Right adds the wager, wrong takes it away.
- One steal per clue. After a wrong answer, only one other team gets a try. Keeps the pace up.
- Five-second rule. Once a team buzzes, it has five seconds to start answering.
- Close enough counts. Spelling and small slips are fine if the host is sure what they meant.
Jeopardy template: make your own board
The board is a ready-made Jeopardy template. Press Edit board, rename the categories and type 25 clues with their answers. It saves in your browser as you type, so you can build it the day before and open it on the same laptop to play. No slides, no linking 50 pages together.
- Write the clue as a statement. One fact per clue. The answer is a name, a thing or a place.
- Keep the answer out of the clue. Read each one back and check it doesn't give itself away.
- Let difficulty climb. Everyone knows the 100. Roughly one person in ten knows the 500.
- Use facts that don't change. Skip "current" champions and records. Check every answer with two good sources.
- Mix the categories. One company category, three classic ones and one wordplay keeps any expert from sweeping.
- Make it fair for new hires. Company clues should be learnable from the intranet, not from five years of in-jokes.
30 Jeopardy category ideas for work
Pick five: one about your company, three classic ones and one wordplay category makes a balanced board.
About your company
- Company Firsts: first client, first office, first hire
- Acronyms We Use: spell out the letters you say daily
- Our Products: features, launch years, code names
- Office Lore: the famous stories everyone retells
- Whose Desk Is This? Photos of desks, shared with permission
- Fun Facts About Us: collected from the team ahead of time
- Onboarding 101: tools, channels and where things live
- By the Numbers: offices, time zones, teams
- Our Industry: the jargon and the big names
- Who Said It? Quotes from all-hands and team chats
Classic trivia
- Geography: capitals, rivers, mountains
- Space: planets, missions, astronauts
- Food & Drink: where dishes come from
- Inventions: who made what, and when
- Animal Kingdom: record holders and odd facts
- Famous Firsts: firsts in flight, sport and science
- US States: nicknames, capitals, borders
- Holidays Around the World
- The Human Body
- Potpourri: a little of everything
Wordplay
- Rhyme Time: answers are two rhyming words
- Before & After: two phrases that share a word
- Emoji Translations: guess the movie or phrase
- Same Letter: every answer starts with the same letter
- Anagrams: unscramble the clue
- Fill in the Blank: famous sayings missing a word
- Brand Slogans: name the company
- Spell It: commonly misspelled words
- Abbreviations: what the letters stand for
- Opposites: give the antonym
Need clues for the classic categories? Borrow from our Trivial Pursuit-style questions and sports trivia questions, warm up with a round of true or false trivia questions, and name the teams with the team name generator.
