Bible Jeopardy

Five categories, five clues each, $100 to $500. Pick a square, answer the clue, keep the score. Nothing is taken off for a wrong answer.

Bible Jeopardy — Free Online Bible Game

A five-by-five Bible Jeopardy board: 5 categories, 25 clues, $100 to $500.

Free to play, no sign-up required — and free to embed on your own website.

Bible Jeopardy is the board everyone already knows the rules to, filled with Scripture. 5 categories across the top, 5 clues down each one, $100 at the top of the column and $500 at the bottom. You pick the square you want, you answer, and if you are right the square's value is added to your score. Nothing is taken off for a wrong answer, which is the change worth knowing about before you start — a running negative total is a poor fit for a Sunday-school class or a family playing together. This is the board and the ladder, not the whole television format: every clue is multiple choice, there is no buzzer, no answering in the form of a question, no Daily Double and no Final Jeopardy.

How to play Bible Jeopardy

  1. The board deals 25 clues: 5 categories of 5. They are Name That Book, Chapter & Verse, Finish the Verse, Old or New?, Which Testament?.
  2. Tap any square. The clue opens with the answer options underneath it — two for the testament rounds, four everywhere else.
  3. Answer it. A correct answer adds the value of the square to your score; a wrong one adds nothing and shows you which option was right. Either way the square is spent.
  4. Play all 25 squares in whatever order you like. A perfect board is $7,500.
  5. Every game deals a new board, drawn fresh from the collection, so playing twice does not mean playing the same board twice.

What this game teaches

The dollar value is a real difficulty ladder, not decoration, and each column climbs in its own way. In Name That Book the $100 clue offers three wrong books from the other testament, so the era alone gets you there, while the $400 and $500 clues offer only books from the same testament as the answer. In Chapter & Verse the $100 and $200 clues put the wrong references in three different books — naming the book is enough — while the $400 and $500 clues put every wrong option in the SAME book as the verse, so you have to know the chapter. Finish the Verse climbs by how much text you have to hold in your head, and Which Testament? runs the ladder the other way, giving you a long passage for $100 and a single line for $500.

Who Bible Jeopardy is for

Groups, mostly. A Jeopardy board is the one trivia format that works with a room split into teams and one person reading the screen, and the board being on-screen rather than on paper means nobody has to prepare it. It also plays fine alone. In the three columns whose ladder is about recall rather than reading length — Name That Book, Chapter & Verse and Old or New? — the $100 clue really is the easier one, so a mixed-age group can put its newer readers on the top row and still keep everyone in the same game.

Add This Game to Your Website

Have a blog, ministry, or church website? Embed Bible Jeopardy for free — it works anywhere. Just copy the code and paste it into any page.

Bible Jeopardy — frequently asked questions

How many clues are on the Bible Jeopardy board?
25 — 5 categories of 5 clues, valued $100 to $500. Clearing the whole board perfectly is $7,500. The board is dealt fresh every game, so the columns fill with different passages each time. It is not a guarantee that nothing repeats — the pools are a few hundred passages deep and Old or New? only has fourteen books familiar enough for its top row — but you will not be handed the same board twice.
Do you lose points for a wrong answer?
No. On this board a wrong answer scores nothing and reveals the right option, but it never subtracts. Televised Jeopardy deducts the value of the clue; this one does not, because it gets played by children and by Sunday-school groups, where a negative score is more discouraging than fun.
Where do the Bible Jeopardy questions come from?
From the site's King James Version collection rather than from anywhere else. Four of the 5 categories print a King James verse and ask you to place it — which book, which chapter and verse, which testament, or which word the King James text uses — drawing on 379 of the collection's passages, spread across 40 books. Each of the four then narrows that pool to what it can actually use: Finish the Verse reaches 376 of them (three offer no word worth blanking out — long enough, and not one of the little joining words), Which Testament? 372, and Chapter & Verse 347 from 21 books, because its hardest clues need three other references from the same book to put beside the right one. The fifth category, Old or New?, names one of the 66 books of the Bible and asks which testament it sits in. No clue asks you to accept a fact that is not in the text itself.
Is Bible Jeopardy suitable for children?
Yes, and it is filtered for it rather than only described that way. The other verse games here draw on 385 of the collection's 439 passages, which is why the Bible games page says plainly that a grown-up verse such as Hebrews 13:4 can come up in its own words. This board leaves that kind of passage out — Hebrews 13:4 and 1 Corinthians 6:18 among them — so neither the verse nor its reference can be a clue or a wrong answer, and it also skips the one passage the collection stores abridged rather than in full, because a board that says “complete the verse” should not hand you a verse that has been cut short. There is still no account, no sign-up, and nothing a child is asked to type.
Can I use Bible Jeopardy for a youth group or Sunday school class?
Yes, and it is the game on this site that suits a group best. Put the board on a screen, split the room into teams, and let each team pick a square in turn. There is no sign-up and no preparation: press Start Game and the board fills itself in. You can also embed it on a church or ministry site with the code under the game.
Is my score saved?
No. Your score lives in the page while you are playing and is gone the moment you close the tab or start a new board — the game writes nothing to your device and there is no account to make. To be straight about the rest: like most sites, this page loads Google and Vercel visitor analytics, which record visits and what happens on the page, and Google's sets a cookie to do it — no name, email or account is ever involved.
Is Bible Jeopardy free?
Yes — free to play, free to replay, and free to embed. There is no account, no download and no paid version holding clues back.

More Bible Games

Bible Trivia QuizBible Quiz for KidsGuess the VerseComplete the VerseName That BookOld or New Testament?

All 11 games live on the free Bible games page. If you would rather be tested on Scripture knowledge directly, try the Bible quiz, or the Bible quiz for kids for younger players. Every verse used across these games is King James Version, and you can draw one at any time from the random Bible verse generator.