Ceopardy

The Hacker Jeopardy Game Board we use at NorthSec.

Screenshots

This is what the crowd sees:

When a clue is displayed:

This is the host interface, how you control the game:

Note that there are two drawers that can be opened by clicking on the brown arrows at the top and at the bottom of the screen. The top drawer contain the functions to change team names. The bottom drawer provides functions to display a custom message on the board or to pause a game.

First time deployment

You need Python, pip, virtualenv and npm. The tl;dr:

python -m venv .venv/
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
npm install
npm run copy-assets
python ceopardy.py

Setup

Display

You need at least 2 outputs: one for the game host for control and one for the public.

At NorthSec 2017, we used 3 outputs because we didn’t have the proper gear to duplicate the public output for a stage monitor. There is a script in helpers/ that will set 3 outputs using xrandr. It didn’t work with a GUI tool when we tried at that time.

Prepare a game

Game data goes in data/. There you should add round files (create a .round file) and questions in Questions.cp. The format is pretty self explanatory. Check data/ for an example.

Running

python ceopardy.py

Then open the host view and setup the game. The players' view (also known as the viewer) can be opened at any time. Nothing will be displayed until the game is started by the host.

Note

In order to avoid dataloss due to a crash, Ceopardy is backed by a database where transactions are pushed when the hosts submit the points. This has the flipside requiring games to be finalized before a new one can be started. Make sure that you always push the "Game over" button before reloading to start a new game.