Jeopardy! PlayShow

It is an amazing idea and I'm keeping the app only because of future updates and stuff. I have 3 issues though. When I buzz in to answer the question, it goes away and says I have been disconnected. And the voice recognition is off. It also only allows ne to play 2 episodes for free. It's a shame because this is such an amazing idea and I would love to play it if there were more episodes or if you could play live with the actual show, and if the bug is fixed.

This is as close to the real thing as you can get. Just like at home, you answer before the contestants and keep score. Very intuitive. However, Playshow ruins the experience with a frustrating, poorly designed, glitchy app. Consistent issues include failure of the mic or keyboard, and the garbling of speech to text translation, resulting in a wrong answer you just got right. Ruins the game. I'd prefer to use my PS4 controller instead of the glitchy "buzzer" app, but unfortunately it's required

So much potential but not playable. Speech recognition is trash. No intuitive menu controls. No easy way for alternative input. Crazy expensive per game(episode) - especially given the performance of the app. Please fix the issues and make it much cheaper. In fact, allow for decoupling from the "TV show" as it gets old when you cannot skip things like the player bios.

The speech function does not work very well. It doesn't pick up the answers correctly and there is no way to fix it, so you end up getting it wrong even if you're right. There is an option to type in your answer, except that function does not read/submit your typed answers, so again, you end up getting a correct answer wrong. Only one game is free and everything else must be purchased. If there were more options for free games and the text and or speech functions for answering worked better, I may consider keeping the app. Other than that, meh.

Such a perfect concept, but such poor execution. About 50% of the time it counts you wrong when answering correctly because the voice recognition feature just isn't up to task. For example, on one question I correctly answered Thanksgiving.. it heard "thinks giving" and counted me wrong. Also, it is one of the buggiest games I've ever played. Constantly getting disconnected. I paid $5 for the starter pack episodes and it ruined two of them by kicking us out halfway through & making us restart.

I wanted this game to be good so badly, it is riddled with issues. Even with the huge problem of the game not recognizing what you said it would be okay. But the game is riddled with crazy expensive micro transactions, even if they were a reasonable price we couldn't even finish the trial game without it freezing on us! Crazy how much money this game could rake in if there was a semi competent team for it. The app asked to be reviewed in the middle of the game! That was the first of many freezes

Such a great concept but horrible execution. The game literally does not work at all, and when i say literally I mean it. Every time I go through the process of setting it up and connecting to my TV I start the game but the questions never show up and its just stuck on a blue screen. Could be so much fun and great, but does not work at all.

I had a blast beating real contestants! The voice recognition was accurate and fairly forgiving with sound-alikes, and buzzer timing was spot-on an in sync, they have fixed a lot! This was the closest thing to the real thing I've ever played. I can't wait to play with friends! My only complaint is that there are only ~100 episodes at $0.75-1.00 per episode. I'd even tolerate real ad-supported commercial breaks rather than dumping $100+ for one time use episodes.

This game is virtually unplayable: The android "companion" app asks for a 6-digit room number, while a 4-character alpha-numeric is displayed on the TV. While playing, it actually caused the wifi on my phone to disconnect. It kept asking to allow use of the mic. I had to sign in each time with username and password. Half the time, the correct verbal response was not recognized. The game itself is really not what I expected. You are not a "player" who can choose the category and amount, but instead you are subject to the actual game that was taped several years ago. Playing solo, it did not display my score.

Horrendous gameplay experience! first you cannot even log in or create an account because the keyboard is not visible! If you choose Comcast for some reason it just lets you in as a guest. The audio video is completely out of sync on the Sony Bravia TV, half the time my input is not recognized from my phone to the TV. The demo game was horrible there's no way I will pay money for more packs!

The worst. The app asks for a 6-digit code, but there is a 4-character room ID or a QR only on the screen. If I accidentally tap the buzzer more than once, the game locks up completely. The game cannot understand my answers and puts in gibberish instead of what I really said while my husband's answers are taken down perfectly. I grew up in Southern California and have no accent. Unplayable.

How could something be done so wrong. Isn't basically an exercise in patience and masochism to try and get it to work. 3 biggest issues: it's based on a stupid episodic format instead of just letting you pick questions, sometimes you can skip content sometimes not. The audio input simply does not work, keying in the answer is unreliable too.

Doesn't work at all on Prime Firestick. The game won't even load which is ridiculous. The phone part works but it's a black screen on the TV. Takes 5 or 6 tries just to get the intro to play and then it plays the episode without pausing to let you buzz in! It would be so fun if it worked. Very dissappointed.

Have to sign in every time, which is very annoying. Cannot resume games easily. The spoken audio is often misheard and some of the typed answers, though correct, were rejected. App kept crashing on phone and tv. Wasted $5 on the Starter Pack. Would be fun if it actually worked.

Great as long as you're ok with losing after giving the correct answer over and over again. Edited to add: upon further play, this app is RIDDLED with bugs (ok it's beta, fine), the price per episode is laughable, and it's just not worth it. I'd have given it a shot if it were reasonable, but it's not. I suspect it'll be defunct in no time at 5 bucks for 5 episodes. lol

Speaker on my phone was playing static as soon as I opened the app, but before joining a game. The game seemed okay, until a player was disconnected according to the main screen (Game started on Fire stick 4k). The players device (Fire Tablet) did not indicate disconnection event until almost 5 minutes later. The same user was unable to provide answers verbally, despite granting the app the required permissions during setup.

It just sucks! The video does not show answers, but the audio works sometimes. The answers are never recorded correctly and the ones it does manage to get right are counted wrong. Be careful not to buy a game pack until you're sure it's gonna work!

I had a lot of fun playing that 1 free game. You get 1 free game and all the others you pay for? Not even 1 free play a day? Heck, I'd even watch all the videos for free plays if you offered! The voice recognition is off. I tried to speak very clearly but I missed a few correct answers because the microphone misheard me. Typing in my wager would be easier. Videos for the video daily double didn't play and the game froze a few times. I did make it to Final Jeopardy, though

This might just be my phone, but half the time when I buzz in, my keyboard doesn't come up so I can't even try to answer. Don't misspell(?) anything either, even one letter off, because there's not enough time to go back and correct even one letter. They should allow a couple of extra seconds to your time for that. The other thing...it costs too much! NO thanks!

I wanted to love this game, but it frequently crashes, the voice component only picks up responses half the time (and sometimes marks correct answers incorrect), and doesn't provide enough time to type if you try that setting. Wish i could get my money back.

This game SUCKS on Xbox One. It is hardly interactive at all, the microphone hardly works (What is Count Chock You'll Awe?), the keyboard gives you virtually no time to type, and worst of all, I paid $25 for three episodes with additional episodes costing $10 a pack (as though people would come back for more). To charge even a dollar for this "game" is CRIMINAL. To echo an earlier review's sentiment, ZERO STARS.

Couldn't get it to work. I was able to add the app on my Google TV Chromecast, but when I was in the phone app, the keyboard wouldn't load, and therefore couldn't even create an account or login and play the game. Disappointing.

I would give this 4 stars if (after 4 tries to complete 1 episode due to glitches and multiple mistakes on voice recognition/test option) I didn't have to pay almost $1 per episode after. 2.5 stars for a reason. Tech is out there to more than capably handle this type of programming. Get some people from a real game developer to make a game for Jeopardy.

Cash grab. The previous version let you play one episode a day for free. With the new implementation, you now get a free trial for 5 episodes and then have to pay for episodes after that. It is literally all over the place on pricing. Some packs are 4.99, some packs are 14.99. You have to keep shelling out money to play in the end. Obvious cash grab is obvious. Avoid this like the plague.

The first starter pack I bought skips double jeopardy and I had to start over three times because either my phone or television became disconnected from the internet. I thought perhaps the first episode of paid for it was just a glitch so I gave it a week and tried it again. the truth is is that this app is complete garbage these people should be ashamed that they put it out. I think everybody that purchased this app should get their money back.

One of the worst experiences. Downloaded the app but couldn't get on the server because the app doesn't allow me to type letters. So I used the website. THEN the voice to text was wrong almost every. single. time. Paid $25 for the PS4 app and what a waste.

Free trial only, so glad I didn't waste money paying for it. Multiple glitches and not showing video or picture clues. Didn't show one answer. Misunderstood many of our voice answers. Too bad because I'm a huge Jeopardy fan and really wanted to love the app!

Answer: Embarrassing bad. It will not bring up the keyboard when trying to create a new profile or sign in with an existing one. There is no way to use this app. Question: "What is the Jeopardy! PlayShow app on Android?" Correct!! You still lose!!

I wanted nothing more than this to be awesome because I love jeopardy, but it is sooo frustrating! Constant glitches, word recognition is absolutely horrible and even when you type in they often don't give you credit for correct answers. Waste of money as of how it performs now.

The horrible reviews are from 2 years ago. It finally got released to Xbox so I finally bought the game. Can't play it because of the same complaints from 2 years ago. The app won't work. So, I don't even know it the game works and there's no review button on the Xbox game. My only solace is that I gave a few bucks to the Alex estate and hope they fix this game and app soon. Zero stars.