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I originally sent this as a reply to Kara but it seems to have taken on a life of its own so here goes. This is based on a rule set that I circulated before my appearance, and it's funny to see how many of the "rarer" conditions got triggered during that game. I've added the suggestions from the original thread and will continue editing according to suggestions.

Every phase of the game gets its own rules so participants should stay alert. The rules form "trees" which can chain to some dizzying totals.

Disclaimer: A "drink" could be anything. These rules guarantee at least five for every J! game (and those rules are in bold). Please don't consume an entire beer / glass of wine / shot of liquor / equivalent for each of these, because I like you all and would rather not be the cause of someone careening into a ditch. This game could easily adapted to make Bingo cards instead.

Introductions and Interviews
  • (1) The champion is introduced
    • (1) …and has won five or more previous games
    • (1) …and has won over $100,000
      • (1) …and has won over $250,000
        • (2) …and has won over $1M
  • (1) You share a first name with a player.
  • (1) You share a surname with a player.
  • (1) A player is from your hometown.
  • (1) A player is from the town you're currently in.
  • (1) A player is from Canada.
  • (1) A player does something silly while being introduced.
  • (1) A player's interview story cracks up the audience.
  • (1) Alex makes fun of the player's interview story.
Start of a Round (revelation of categories)
  • (1) "Potent Potables" is a category.
    • (1) …and something you're consuming is mentioned in a clue or response in that round
  • (1) "Potpourri" or "Hodgepodge" is a category.
  • (1) A category is so weird that Alex has to give an example clue and question.
  • (X) The last X category titles are part of an obvious theme.
Regular Play
  • (1) Any player goes negative
    • (1) …and you're wearing red
    • (2) …and it means all three players are now negative
  • (1) Any player who was negative goes positive
    • (1) …and you're wearing black
    • (1) Alex says "You're out of the hole!"
    • (1) Alex says "You're back on the plus side!"
  • (1) Any player reveals a Daily Double
    • (1) …and it's a video
    • (2) …and it's the first clue selected in the round
    • (1) …and the player goes all-in
      • (1) …by saying "make it a true Daily Double!"
      • (2) …by saying "All in!" like a poker player
      • (1) …and gets it right
  • (1) A clue is a "triple-stumper" (no player gives a correct response)
    • (1) …and all three players rang in with incorrect responses
  • (1) Alex announces "less than a minute to go"
    • (1) …and the players clear the board in the remaining time
  • (2) Alex asks a contestant to be "more specific".
  • (2) A player forgets to phrase a response as a question
    • (1) …and doesn't fix it before it's counted incorrectly.
  • (2) Alex says "Boo, hiss."
  • (2) There's a scoring correction during regular play
    • (1) …and it changes who's in the lead
  • (2) An entire category is untouched until it's the only category left on the board.
  • (3) A player "runs the table" in a category (claims all five clues and responds correctly)
    • (2) …and that category was "Potent Potables"
  • (3) A player answers incorrectly, is ruled incorrect, and then blurts the correct answer anyway
    • (1) …and someone rings in and steals it on the rebound
  • (1) A response that was incorrect is the correct response to a later clue in the same round.
    • (1) …and Alex says "Now's the time for X" (credit)
  • (1) Alex enunciates a foreign-language or other in-dialect response with the appropriate accent.
    • (1) …and that language is French. (credit)
    • ( :!: ) …and the response is "Rrrrobbie Burrrrns" (drink what you can and pour the rest over your head) (credit)
  • (1) Alex stops play after a question to thank someone involved with that question or category.
    • (1) …and it's Lindblad Expeditions (credit)
End of a Round / End of Regular Play
  • (1) Alex says "This game is not a runaway" at the end of Double Jeopardy!
  • (1) A player is negative at the end of the round
    • (1) …and it's the end of Double J!, so the player won't go to Final J!
      • (3) …and breaks the record for lowest score (-6800; Stephanie Hull; #7024)
      • (4) …and this happened to all three players (has never happened!)
  • (2) Any player goes a whole round without answering correctly.
    • (1) …because the player didn't ring in at all.
  • (3) A single player revealed all three Daily Doubles
    • (1) …and responded correctly to all three
  • (X) X clues are left unrevealed at the end of the round.
    • (1) …and they were already in "Potpourri", "Hodgepodge", etc.
  • (2X) X Daily Doubles were not revealed.
Final Jeopardy!
  • (2) There is a scoring correction immediately before Final J!
    • (1) …and the leader gains a lock
    • (2) …and the leader loses a lock
  • (1) The leader has a lock / "runaway" game.
    • (1) …and Alex says "but this game belonged to X"
    • (1) …and Alex says "but X could not be caught"
    • (4) …and is alone on-stage (Kristin Sausville, #7024)
  • (1) "Think!" starts playing.
    • (1) …and a player looks at the camera, clearly indicating he/she has no idea what the response is.
      • (4) …but gets it right anyway
  • (3) A player has to write a response on the emergency index card.
  • (1) Alex can't read a player's response
    • (1) …and makes fun of it
  • (1) A player goes all-in
    • (3) …and gets it right
    • (1) …and gets it wrong
  • (4) All three players went all-in and missed; none will return tomorrow.
  • (1) A player wagers to beat someone else by $1
    • (3) …and does the math wrong
      • (1) …and would have won the game if the math had been right
  • (2) A tie takes the game into a sudden-death tie-breaker
    • (3) …and it's a three-way tie
    • (1) …and a clue doesn't resolve the tie (repeat for each additional clue)
  • (3) A player breaks the single-game scoring record (77,000; Roger Craig; #5977)
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I'll be competing in the Great Lakes Division.
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zerobandwidth wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:04 pm [*](1) …and a clue doesn't resolve the tie (repeat for each additional clue)
I believe this would be edited out, no?
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OntarioQuizzer wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 5:09 pm
zerobandwidth wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:04 pm [*](1) …and a clue doesn't resolve the tie (repeat for each additional clue)
I believe this would be edited out, no?
Possibly, but for the sake of an exciting finish, gosh I hope not.
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zerobandwidth wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 5:20 pm
OntarioQuizzer wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 5:09 pm
zerobandwidth wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:04 pm [*](1) …and a clue doesn't resolve the tie (repeat for each additional clue)
I believe this would be edited out, no?
Possibly, but for the sake of an exciting finish, gosh I hope not.
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This is a fantastic list. My liver is already angry with me, and you. One addition I'd add to:

(1) …by saying "make it a true Daily Double!"

I'd like to add a sub-bullet:
(1) If the player says, "I've always wanted to do/say this..."
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And TWO drinks if the player says "true daily double" when they could have bet more (i.e. they have less than $1000 in SJ, less than $2000 in DJ). When done, wipe your mouth and say, "No, doofus, THAT was a true daily double!"
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"Alex registers extra dismay or indignation over a Canadian-oriented Triple Stumper." (A Canadian-brewed/distilled beverage should be held in reserve for this event.)
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I think it would be great to play this at the viewing party for your own episode.
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How about, on DDs, Alex says "Only $x" in response to the player's bet.

And surely there can be rules for sponsored/product placement rounds, or video rounds where Alex appears in costume, eg at a theatre.
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More about the phraseology of J!:
  • (1) Alex says "Let's go to work" or "Welcome aboard" at the top of the show
  • (1) Alex says "And finally..." before revealing the last category in a round
  • (3) Alex leads into a clue that is not a DD by saying "Answer..."
  • (2) Alex starts to say "And now the last clue..." but is interrupted by the contestant calling for it
  • (1) Tournament Finals Only: Alex says "This is a two-day, total point affair"
  • (2) Somebody gets an "Oooh, sorry"
  • ( :!: ) An Audio Daily Double is revealed (Down your drink if this occurs)
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OntarioQuizzer wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 5:09 pm
zerobandwidth wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:04 pm [*](1) …and a clue doesn't resolve the tie (repeat for each additional clue)
I believe this would be edited out, no?
I could swear I saw a tournament game once with two tiebreaker clues. (And knowing this place, someone has found that game and replied to my post before I hit “Submit”)
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dhkendall wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:36 am
OntarioQuizzer wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 5:09 pm
zerobandwidth wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:04 pm [*](1) …and a clue doesn't resolve the tie (repeat for each additional clue)
I believe this would be edited out, no?
I could swear I saw a tournament game once with two tiebreaker clues. (And knowing this place, someone has found that game and replied to my post before I hit “Submit”)
http://www.j-archive.com/help.php#tiebreakerround explains a 3-tiebreaker game, with two edited out.

(Also, the one Sports Jeopardy! tiebreaker went "triple overtime", as it were, if I remember Terrence's recounting of it properly).
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NoWhammies10 wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:57 pm More about the phraseology of J!:
  • (1) Alex says "Let's go to work" or "Welcome aboard" at the top of the show
  • (1) Alex says "And finally..." before revealing the last category in a round
  • (3) Alex leads into a clue that is not a DD by saying "Answer..."
  • (2) Alex starts to say "And now the last clue..." but is interrupted by the contestant calling for it
  • (1) Tournament Finals Only: Alex says "This is a two-day, total point affair"
  • (2) Somebody gets an "Oooh, sorry"
  • ( :!: ) An Audio Daily Double is revealed (Down your drink if this occurs)
I like all of these individually but in the context of the whole list it looks like we're now just trying to hurt anyone who tries to play along. ;)

I'm beginning to think that for this to work "for real" you'd just have to fill out a bingo card and drink to the things you've chosen. …which sounds like a good way to manage drinking games in general, actually.
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On a TS clue when Alex says it is "the famous" whatever it is. I always want someone to say "How famous can it be if three people smart enough to get on the show didn't know it?'.
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need to take a drink when Alex jinxes a champion by mentioning Ken Jennings
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opusthepenguin wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:07 pm And TWO drinks if the player says "true daily double" when they could have bet more (i.e. they have less than $1000 in SJ, less than $2000 in DJ). When done, wipe your mouth and say, "No, doofus, THAT was a true daily double!"
as long as the mouth wipe is done after slamming the glass or bottle on the table, and you use the back of your hand/wrist/arm (sleeves optional)
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triviawayne wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:12 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:07 pm And TWO drinks if the player says "true daily double" when they could have bet more (i.e. they have less than $1000 in SJ, less than $2000 in DJ). When done, wipe your mouth and say, "No, doofus, THAT was a true daily double!"
as long as the mouth wipe is done after slamming the glass or bottle on the table, and you use the back of your hand/wrist/arm (sleeves optional)
Well, of course! And obviously you're going to let rip with the loudest burp you've got in you. You and I know these things intuitively of course. But kids these days....
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triviawayne wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:11 pm need to take a drink when Alex jinxes a champion by mentioning Ken Jennings
Would this include getting on Twitter or JBoard to offer to buy that champion a drink as consolation for being jinxed?
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opusthepenguin wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:29 pm
triviawayne wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2018 12:12 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:07 pm And TWO drinks if the player says "true daily double" when they could have bet more (i.e. they have less than $1000 in SJ, less than $2000 in DJ). When done, wipe your mouth and say, "No, doofus, THAT was a true daily double!"
as long as the mouth wipe is done after slamming the glass or bottle on the table, and you use the back of your hand/wrist/arm (sleeves optional)
Well, of course! And obviously you're going to let rip with the loudest burp you've got in you. You and I know these things intuitively of course. But kids these days....
I don't know, I rather imagined this going similarly to the Crocodile Dundee "That's not a knife…" scene.
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