Jeopardy World Tour App Review: The Good & The Ugly

Jeopardy World Tour App: The Good, The Addictive, & the Ugly Privilege

This summer Alan and I found an app we actually both enjoy. Jeopardy World Tour app. We love this thing. Truth be told, Alan keeps saying he’s getting tired of it, but I super hope that’s not true because I just now finally made Tier 8 and have enough tokens to play some bigger cities.

We’ve already pulled so many of our friends and family in to this app.

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The funny and sometimes frustrating thing about this game is that it does not let you waste an entire day playing it, not unless you are truly a trivia genius or you’re feeding it a bunch of money.

Yes, you can play the Jeopardy World Tour app for free.

We try not ever spend any real money on it, and the sad thing is that if you spend all your Jeopardy app money on one expensive city game and lose…no more Jeopardy for your for four more hours. Yep. They pay you more “dollars” every 4 hours. There’s a countdown until your next pay.

Just now I had $160,000 Jeopardy dollars. I spent it all on one game in Paris, and I lost. Now I have to wait four more hours before I can even play again.

Sadness.

When I first started playing, I always played the cheap cities, so this didn’t happen so much. The only thing about that is that when you do it that way, you level up like 100 times  more slowly than you do playing the expensive cities.

But here’s the good news when you’re out of Jeopardy money.

There’s another part of the app where you can play your friends. Don’t have any friends? You can have it match you to opponents. That works just as well. The app gives you 3 hearts every 4 hours, and you use your hearts to play games.

You won’t level up from friend challenges, but you will gain experience knowledge which you can use in your other games. Plus, you can meet the daily challenges, which will give you more money to play the city games.

Gems, Gems, Gems!

You collect gems according to what category you’ve answered correctly. This part is neat because you can click on your profile and learn which category you are best at. For example, I keep around an 80% accuracy level in the vocabulary category, but I’m only around 55% accurate in my literature/arts category.

The gems enable you to level up to different “tiers.” Each tier higher you go, the more money you get every 4 hours.

So you want to hear a funny and ridiculous April and Alan playing Jeopardy story?

All Jeopardy accounts are not created equal. There is some serious UGLY privilege going on here.

Alan was whipping through the level and gem tiers faster than I was, and I was feeling jealous and miffed. See, the thing was that it was completely unequal. His Tier 2 would get like $50,000. My Tier 2 got more like $10,000. What the heck!? And each time Alan would graduate to the next tier, they’d double the money he got! Meanwhile, my amount would go up some paltry amount in comparison.

As we compared our games, I began to feel an extreme sense of injustice. I decided to write the app a letter and demand answers to this privilege situation that we had here. Horribly unfair!

The app people sent me back a message saying that my husband has a “test version” of the app, and that there will be many great changes in store.

Only there were never any changes that created equality amongst the app versions. He continues to get over $300,000 every 4 hours now at Tier 9, and I get $60,000 at Tier 8.

Alan’s mom signed up for an account, and her app version is even worse than mine. She gets paid the same, I think, but her cities will never pay her any more than she pays in. Alan and I get paid extra every time we win with a higher score than some set number.

I did notice that Alan and I are on totally different leader boards though. For example, we could both be #500 at the same time and not see each other on the leader board because we aren’t competing against each other. That is some consolation.

Just know if you download this game, you may get the amazing version that lets you play tons of games, like Alan, OR you could end up with the more limited regular version like me.

When addiction to the app goes too far:

One night Alan was going on an on about all the money he was rolling in and games he’d won, and I reminded him that he had all this privilege though because I don’t even have a chance to play all the games the way he does with the tiny amount of money they were giving me, but still charging me the same amount to play the game.

It all made me truly empathize with every underprivileged person ever. I mean it seems ridiculous, but I got it.

I told Alan he should apologize for bragging or at least admit that he had an unfair advantage. He did not wish to admit his advantage, and I got all kinds of upset!

And that’s how you know that you’ve taken your app obsession too far…. Haa!!! That was months ago, and Alan has since admitted that I and his parents do have the short end of the stick.

So I wholeheartedly do recommend this game because it will keep you sharp, sometimes make you feel stupid, and make you realize just how not-well-read you are. Yet at the same time it is awesome sauce, and it will suck you in and leave you wanting to play more.

For another fun app review, see this one I wrote about Township.