conorhastings / jeopardy1

Play Jeopardy online with friends

Jeopardy

A website for playing Jeopardy! together with friends over the Internet. Designed for computer browsers, although it's playable on mobile. If the UI/code looks familiar, much of it is copied from my other project, WatchParty: https://github.com/howardchung/watchparty

Description

• Implements the game show Jeopardy!, including the Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy, and Final Jeopardy rounds. Daily Doubles are also included.
• Any archived episode of Jeopardy! can be loaded, with options for loading specific event games (e.g. College Championship)
• Load games by episode number
• Create your own custom game with a CSV file
• Supports creating multiple rooms for private/simultaneous games.
• Text chat included

Reading:

• Uses text-to-speech to read clues

Buzzing:

• After a set time (based on number of syllables in the clue text), buzzing is unlocked
• Buzzing in enables a user to submit an answer
• Answers will be judged in buzz order

Judging:

• Players judge answer correctness themselves.
• Auto-judging is quite a difficult problem to solve, due to the number of ways answers can be represented, and spelling errors.
• Rule-based approaches will not scale sufficiently, and probably something ML/AI-powered is required for a usable/non-frustrating experience.

Data:

• Game data is from http://j-archive.com/
• Games might be incomplete if some clues weren't revealed on the show.

Updating Clues:

• The j-archive-parser project needs to be inside this directory
• Run that to extract CSV data, then run node dev/parseJArchiveCsv.js to generate the single jeopardy.json file.

Environment Variables

• REDIS_URL: Provide to allow persisting rooms to Redis so they survive server reboots

Tech

• React
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Redis