Jeopardy Tournament
A team-vs-team Bible trivia game and tournament runner for youth nights.
What it is
A Jeopardy-style quiz for church youth events, built as a desktop app. Two teams take turns picking a tile, a host keys in their answer, and a wrong answer gives the other team a chance to steal. It can also run a whole tournament across several rooms, from round-robin groups to a final and a 3rd-place match.
Why I built it
Youth trivia nights needed something that looks like a real game show on the projector, runs smoothly in several rooms at once, and doesn't need a pile of phones or Wi-Fi to work. A host-driven desktop app with keyboard shortcuts keeps it simple and reliable, and the tournament mode means nobody has to work out the bracket by hand.
How it works
A tile is worth its row number × $100 × the round multiplier, so Round 2 doubles everything. A correct answer adds the full price. A wrong answer on a four-option question offers a steal: the other team gets 5 seconds and half the points (rounded down). Teams alternate picking after every question.
There's no buzzer: the host presses A to D for the team's answer. When the 30-second timer runs out the screen shows 'TIME'S UP!' with Space to reveal, T to allow a steal, or S to skip. The last 5 seconds tick, and a tied game goes to a tiebreaker question.
Every sound effect is synthesised with the Web Audio API instead of audio files: a rising C–E–G chime for correct, a low 200 Hz buzz for wrong, an 800 Hz tick, a falling sweep when time runs out, and a fanfare at the start of a round.
Teams play round-robin in groups, each game in its own room. Group winners skip ahead, everyone else plays a cross-seeded knockout, and each finished stage automatically creates the next (Round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals) up to the Final and a 3rd-place match.
It ships as a desktop app (Electron). Question sets are saved as .jep files, a zip with a manifest and a checksum, so a game can be built once and copied safely to every room's computer.