J-Play Live: play along on J! Archive

Play archived Jeopardy! games live on J! Archive: clues read aloud, ring in, answer by voice, race the original contestants.

Turn any game on the J! Archive fan site into a live game you can play. Open a game page on j-archive.com, click ▶ Play Live, and the host reads each clue aloud. When the reading ends the lights come on and the buzzers arm: press Space (or click) to ring in, then say your response out loud or type it. You're racing the three original contestants, who ring in exactly when and how they did on the broadcast — the archive records who responded to each clue, right or wrong, in what order — with reaction times you can tune from Easy to Champion. • A studio-quality host voice that runs entirely on your computer (a one-time download; nothing is sent anywhere), or your system's built-in voices. • Speech recognition that runs on your computer too (the open-source Whisper model, a one-time download), consistent and private; Chrome's built-in recognizer is the alternative. • High scores and statistics, kept on your computer: win rate, Coryat scores, Daily Double and Final Jeopardy! results, streaks. • Play together on one keyboard: two or three of you, each with your own ring-in key (one on the mouse), with the original contestants or without them — up to six podiums, and a saved game for everyone. • Games you've played get a ✓ in the archive's lists, and a small panel on every archive page offers the next game after the last one you played. • Online play, with a free account: a lobby for two or three friends (a code or a link), or a queue for a three-player ranked or unrated match on a game none of you has played, with a rating by finishing place, average Coryat, and a leaderboard. Ruled wrong when you were right? Call a vote between clues; a majority of the players reverses it, and the money and the board follow. Anyone can ask for a pause. • The host reads the categories at the start of each round, the way the show does. • Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy! with wagering, including the game-theory-savvy wagers the contestants make against the live standings. • Responses judged leniently, like the show ("what is" optional, surnames accepted, typos, homophones and mis-hearings forgiven), with y/n to overrule. • The clue board and clue screens styled like the show, with the category shown on every clue. • Pause anything, anytime. Click or press Space to move on. • Original 30-second think music for Final Jeopardy!, a chime for running a category or getting a Daily Double or Final Jeopardy! right, a fanfare for winning, and built-in sound cues you can replace with your own files. • Pick clues the way contestants do: "Science for 600" (clicking works too). • The contestants speak their responses in voices of their own, and the host runs the game like a host: the standings at the top of Double Jeopardy!, the Daily Double exchange, the Final Jeopardy! reveal place by place. • Misjudged? Fix any of your responses afterwards with Edit results; only the money changes. • When the game ends, one click takes you to the next game in the archive. Built on the open-source j-play extension by Wayne Davison, whose "review" mode is still included. This extension only runs on j-archive.com pages (the game on game pages; on the rest of the site it only marks the games you have played) and modifies them locally in your browser. It collects no data unless you create an account for online play, in which case your display name, email (for sign-in only), results and ratings are kept with the account; see the privacy policy. Speech recognition, if you answer by voice, runs on your computer once the studio ear is downloaded; until then Chrome's built-in service is used, which processes audio through Google. The studio voice downloads the open-source Kokoro speech model from Hugging Face once and caches it locally. Not affiliated with Jeopardy Productions, Sony Pictures Television, or the J! Archive. Jeopardy! is a trademark of Jeopardy Productions, Inc.