JeopardyBot
A Slack bot that lets you play full Jeopardy! games. Easy to deploy, and highly configurable to your team's style of play.
Deploying on Heroku
Deploying JeopardyBot on Heroku is extremely simple. Simply click the deploy button below.
Once your instance is deployed, click the "View" button, and the JeopardyBot admin panel will open, and walk you through the setup process for Slack.
You can also go to the admin panel directly by navigating to <appname>.herokuapp.com/admin. The username and password should be configured during the heroku deploy process, and default to jeopardy and bot, respectively.
How to Play
When in doubt, just type "help" in the channel and a message will appear to help you out.
*Games*
“help” - Displays this helpful message.
“new game” - Starts a new game.
“end game” - Ends the current game.
*Selecting Categories*
“I’ll take ________ for $___”
“Give me ________ for $___”
“Choose ________ for $___”
“________ for $___”
“Same (category) for $___”
“Gimme ________”
*Guessing*
“What [is|are] _______”
“Who [is|are] ________”
“Where [is|are] ______”
“When [is|are] ______”
*Wagering*
“(I'll) wager $___”
“$___”
*Scores*
“scores” - Shows the scores for the current game.
“leaderboard” - Shows the scores for the top players.
“loserboard” - Shows the scores for the bottom players.
You can also ensure that the bot is awake by messaging "poke". This is useful for free Heroku dynos, which may get shut down after inactivity.
Configuring
You can configure the bot by using the admin control panel. You can go to the admin panel directly by navigating to /admin on the domain that the bot is deployed to. If you deployed on Heroku, the username and password should be configured during the heroku deploy process, and default to jeopardy and bot, respectively. Otherwise, you can set the username and password with the ADMIN_USERNAME and ADMIN_PASSWORD environment variables.
Configuring MongoDB
There are three different environment variables that you can use to set the URL for MongoDB. JeopardyBot will check the environment variables MONGO_URL, MONGOHQ_URL, and MONGOLAB_URI (in that order), before finally defaulting to mongodb://localhost/jeopardy.