What Happened to Jeopardy! on WorldWinner?

No. WorldWinner's help center article "What games are available?" lists the current catalog by category. As of the review date, the Word category includes BOGGLE, SCRABBLE Cubes, and Wheel of Fortune, and no Jeopardy! title appears in any category.

On timing: WorldWinner has not published a removal date or a reason that this guide could find in its help center or on its corporate blog, and this guide found no licensor statement or dated reporting on the removal. No date or reason is stated here for that reason, and none is guessed at.

One point of confusion is worth clearing up. Wheel of Fortune, the other long-running television game show title that WorldWinner licensed alongside Jeopardy!, is still offered. Jeopardy! is the one that left.

The documented starting point is a licensing deal. The Boston Business Journal reported on July 18, 2005 that WorldWinner had signed a deal with Sony Pictures Digital to create skill-based competitions based on Sony's online games Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, allowing players to compete in tournaments for cash and prizes.

Details of the game itself are thinly documented today, because WorldWinner no longer publishes a rules page for it. The fan-maintained Game Shows Wiki records that a WorldWinner Jeopardy! cash game debuted on GSN.com in 2009 and used three categories per board instead of the six seen on television. That detail comes from a fan-maintained source, not from WorldWinner, and this guide could not confirm scoring values, round lengths, or clue counts from an official page.

This guide also reviewed the release notes for WorldWinner's iOS app from its launch in July 2017 onward, as archived by Apptopia. New-game announcements in those notes include TRIVIAL PURSUIT, Angry Birds Champions, and others, but none announces Jeopardy!. That is consistent with Jeopardy! having been a web title, though WorldWinner has not said so.

Jeopardy! is a registered trademark of Jeopardy Productions, Inc., and the show is produced by Sony Pictures Television. This site is an independent guide and is not affiliated with Jeopardy Productions, Sony Pictures Television, or WorldWinner.

An honest answer comes first: WorldWinner's current catalog has no trivia or quiz game. Nothing on the list tests general knowledge with clues and answers, so no current title is a like-for-like replacement for Jeopardy!.

The nearest fit for the same audience is the Word category. These games use different mechanics (spelling and phrase solving, not recalling facts) but reward a similar mix of vocabulary, pattern recognition, and speed under a clock. Wheel of Fortune is the closest in spirit, because it is also a licensed television game show format: a two-round phrase puzzle in which players spin, call consonants, buy vowels, and solve before seven turns or the Speed Bonus run out.

No. There is no Jeopardy!-branded game and no trivia game of any kind in WorldWinner's current catalog, in practice or cash play. Searches such as "Jeopardy for real money" or "Jeopardy tournaments for cash" used to lead to the WorldWinner title; today they do not match anything WorldWinner offers.

What remains is the tournament model, applied to other games. Players pay an entry fee, opponents are matched by a per-game skill rating, and prizes go to the top scores. WorldWinner says cash tournament entry fees start as low as $0.88, with lower-priced tournaments during promotions. Typical entries run up to $5, and premium tournaments cost $10 or more. Winnings are never guaranteed, and an entrant who finishes outside the paid places loses the entry fee.

Players must be 18 or older (higher in some jurisdictions), and cash play varies by location, device, and account. WorldWinner's terms list six states where cash competitions are not offered: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, South Carolina, and South Dakota. This guide reports that list and does not give legal advice.

This guide does not name or recommend other apps. For anyone evaluating a trivia app that advertises cash prizes, the neutral questions are the same ones that apply anywhere: is there an entry fee and a posted prize, do all entrants face the same questions, who are the opponents, and how is the prize funded.

A WorldWinner account holds one balance that is used across games, not a separate balance for each title. This guide has no access to any account and cannot confirm how an individual balance, an open tournament, or Jeopardy! game history was handled when the title left.

Account questions go to WorldWinner directly. Support runs through help-center tickets and info@worldwinner.com. There is no live chat.

Two published terms matter for anyone who stopped logging in after a favorite game left. The inactivity fee is $3.50 per month once a cash account has gone 6 consecutive months without a login, and Bonus Bucks expire after 6 months without logging in. Withdrawing forfeits all Bonus Bucks.

Less than a player might hope. Recall of facts, the core Jeopardy! skill, is not scored by any current WorldWinner game. What does carry over is a broad vocabulary, comfort with a running clock, and the habit of committing to an answer quickly. Those help most in Wheel of Fortune, where the Speed Bonus starts at $5,000 in points and drops $25 per second.

Skill ratings on WorldWinner are per game, so a new title starts from scratch. WorldWinner states that opponents are matched by a per-game skill rating and that players never face bots. A run of free practice games is the sensible first step before any paid entry, and each word game has a strategy guide on this site.