| rdfs:comment | - Milton Bradley produced the first home editions of the JEOPARDY! Game. Unlike the show, there were only five categories in each round, and no separate FINAL JEOPARDY! Category. Instead, the "host" would choose one of the $100 clues in DOUBLE JEOPARDY to use as the FINAL JEOPARDY! question. Thus, each game had only 50 questions instead of the normal 61. Also, players could not go into a negative situation; per the rules, "If a player asks an incorrect question worth more money than he has, the player gives the bank all of his money(, but is still in the game)*. Players cannot have 'negative dollar amounts' and cannot borrow money from another player or the bank."
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| abstract | - Milton Bradley produced the first home editions of the JEOPARDY! Game. Unlike the show, there were only five categories in each round, and no separate FINAL JEOPARDY! Category. Instead, the "host" would choose one of the $100 clues in DOUBLE JEOPARDY to use as the FINAL JEOPARDY! question. Thus, each game had only 50 questions instead of the normal 61. Also, players could not go into a negative situation; per the rules, "If a player asks an incorrect question worth more money than he has, the player gives the bank all of his money(, but is still in the game)*. Players cannot have 'negative dollar amounts' and cannot borrow money from another player or the bank." Each version also came with a die and contestant clickers. At the start of each game, each player rolls the die, with the highest roller going first. Players use the clickers to "ring in" to respond; if two or more players click, they roll the die, the highest roller getting the chance to respond. At the beginning of the second round, if two or more players tie for the lowest score, they roll the die, the lowest roller going first. As with their home editions of CONCENTRATION and PASSWORD, there was no Thirteenth Edition of the home game; the editions are numbered 1-12 and 14 (possibly due to superstitious purposes). Also, the home game never updated its dollar values/game play for the 1978-79 version of the show (no increase in values and no "Super Jeopardy!" round), even though editions were produced until 1984, just before the show returned to TV.
* This is found in the newer Pressman games only.*
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