Size: 3 to 5 players, any number of audience

Equipment: A wall or easel, poster board, plain and lined paper, pen, markers and a good imagination.

Objective: To stimulate memory by using trivia.

Description:
Set Up: You will need to be the one who puts the Jeopardy 'Answers' together. In Jeopardy the answer is the question. Decide, based on your clients what type of categories to have and what answers they would be likely to guess at better.

Tailor make the game for them. Some categories could include facts about their home and the people they know as well as history, movies, television, animals, food. The sky is the limit.
But try to group categories and give them interesting names like a category about junk food might be titled, 'Food For Rot'.

Then put the answers from easiest to hardest in order. assign a point value like 200, 400, 600 and 800 to them.

Cut some blank paper into squares and write your answer and the correct reply (In the form of a question) on it. Like this:

Each American consumes an average of 51 pounds of this sweet substance every year.

What is Chocolate?

Then fold it over and tape it on the back of another small square sheet of paper. Use a marker to put the amount of points it is worth on the paper. (ie 400).

Then line up all the papers of that category in order on the poster board up to down. Fill out a title sheet for the category to put at the top.

Then place all your categories and questions on the poster board in the same way. To look like the Jeopardy game on TV.

Next - Hide your categories under other papers until game time.

Come up with a slightly harder final jeopardy question. Put it in an envelope. Write the category on the back and write Final Jeopardy on the front. Tape it front side out at the bottom of the poster board. Attach the poster board to the wall or easel.

Get a lined paper score sheet and pen ready. And have one or two helpers.

Time To Play:

Line up your contestants along the front facing the wall and audience behind them.
When ready - ask the audience to cheer them on but not to give out any help.

Ask your participants to show you how they will signal to show they think they know the correct response. (raising hand, nodding head, etc.). Your helpers must watch to see who signals first, second, etc. Uncover each category title one at a time announcing tonight's categories. Determine who goes first as you wish. I usually think of a number between 1 and 20. The closest to guess it goes first.

They pick a category and point value. Read the answer. The 1st one to reply correctly (who is...,what is..., etc.) Gets the points added to their score and gets control of the board to pick the next answer. No one loses points for an incorrect answer during normal play (unlike real jeopardy). If nobody correctly responds the person who last picked, chooses again.

You can either use a time limit on the round or wait until the last answer is gone.

At the end of this part - tally the points and tell the clients how much they have to wager in final Jeopardy. (If anyone has zero they cannot play final Jeopardy). Then read the category to them and only the category. They must decide how many points to wager based on the category.
Then - Tell them not to talk or raise their hand because they will whisper the response to you. When they understand that - read the answer.

Give them a moment to think about it. Then have them each whisper their response. If they get it right - add the amount they bet to their total. If they got it wrong - subtract the amount they bet. Then you will have a winner. Our residents love this game.

You can make it more exciting by adding Jeopardy music and sound effects. Be creative and have fun.