In any case, this post is about how we optimized the template shown above to make it work for our game on Saturday. Plus, as I wrote the post, I realized it might also be useful for someone wanting to understand how to automate PowerPoint in the general case. My point in bringing this up is that if you got interested in making the Jeopardy game that I posted about previously, I got to thinking that you might be interested in knowing about this too. So we got on line and settled on this template (which is based on PowerPoint) that seemed to fit the bill, at least as a starting point. Since I do stuff with Office a lot, I thought I might see a way to use one. And, he had found that there were a number of them out there, but was not sure what to do with them. Steve mentioned that he had been looking around on line to see if there was some sort of template that would let us use the computer to project the questions on a TV or screen. So, while my light and buzzer gizmo solved some of the problems associated with playing the game, like tracking who came up with an answer first, it didn’t solve the problem of managing the questions and answers.
So, both Steve and the players have to remember what the categories are and keep track of which questions in each category have been used. Steve typically just writes out his questions and categories and reads them off as people select things. Steve and Sue arrived a bit early so Steve and I started discussing the much anticipated Jeopardy game.
Well, we had the family Christmas party on Saturday, and Kathy’s qualities as a hostess, our little niece Chevelle, and Steve’s Jeopardy Game was were the big hits from what I can tell.
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