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Name something you can't getenough of during action movies.This blog entry will explain how to run a Family Feud game using Powerpoint and keyboard shortcuts (i.e. No mouse clicking.)This setup has been tested on Powerpoint 2007 and Powerpoint 2010, both using Windows. It may be possible to use a Mac, but I haven't tried this and don't own an iProduct. (If you want to buy me an iProduct I will happily try to come up with a solution for you.)If you want to skip the background narrative and just grab the files you need, scroll down to 'What You Need' below.Introduction.

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So, months ahead of time I came up with questions, used a Google Survey to collect answers from the other employees, and secretly plotted to surprise our executive officers by having them play against each other during Family Fun Night.Then I hit a snag. I'd figured that there must be some kind of cheap or free Family Feud software out there, but for the life of me I couldn't find anything useful! I spent hours and hours Googling but turned up only expensive and/or junky solutions.The closest thing I found to what I wanted can be seen in. It had a fairly decent Family Feud board, it had several good sound effects, it was FREE, and all I needed to do was fire up Powerpoint to get it going. However, there was a problem.The Problem. The problem was that the presentation had one critical flaw: you had to use the mouse to flip the answer boxes or choose strikes. I mean no offense at all to the creator of that presentation; I just mean that it's lame to get so far but have to ruin the most fun and suspenseful moments in the game by mousing over the result before triggering it.It turned out that there wasn't a lot the creator could have done - Powerpoint lacks the ability to use shortcut keys to trigger events.I was just about to throw in the towel and write the Family Feud software from scratch when I stumbled upon a comment in some random online forum that led me to the solution.The Solution.

It turns out that while Powerpoint can't trigger events using shortcut keys, there IS a 'tab order' that cycles through all triggers one at a time, based on their ordering in the Animation Pane. In other words, if I hit Tab-Enter, it will select the first trigger.

If I hit Tab-Tab-Enter, it will select the second trigger. And so on.That was close to what I wanted, but my modified Family Feud board had 11 possible triggers. If I'd inadvertently miscounted while tabbing, I'd reveal the wrong answer, which would be even more lame than mousing over an answer before triggering it.That's when I discovered a wonderful little Windows utility called. AutoHotKey allows you to do things like press one key in order to trigger an entire sequence of keys.

In other words, if I press Ctrl-1, I could send a Tab-Enter. If I press Ctrl-2, I could send Tab-Tab-Enter. By combining AutoHotKey functionality with the Powerpoint tab order, I could do exactly what I wanted!What this presentation does and doesn't doBefore I get to the good stuff, let me be clear about what this Family Feud Powerpoint does and doesn't do.It does:. allow you to enter in pre-researched survey answers, one question per presentation. allow you to mostly-dynamically play Fast Money (aka the final round). have most of the useful sound effects for the game built-in. keep track of team names or keep score within the game itself.

When I used this for real, I put the team names and current score on a white board. Note that did have this functionality, but it seemed too clunky for my purposes.

have a 'buzzer' for a playoff round. You can get high-tech solutions for pay, or low-tech for cheap. For example, when I ran the game I had the contestants draw papers out of a hat, each with an animal sound written on it. The contestant had to make that sound to buzz in, and the kids were able to be the judges of who rang in first. It was a hit!. work on a Mac, though if there's some kind of AutoHotKey-for-Mac out there, that should be enough to get it to work.

come with any guarantees that this will work for you. I HIGHLY recommend you test it several times to make sure you understand how it works before you use it live. Get everything ready:. First, install the fonts. Double-click them and click 'Install'. Think of good questions and gather all the survey results.

Ask about twice as many questions as you think you'll need, since some answer sets end up being duds. Then you'll need to sort the answers into natural groupings. For example, if you ask a question about pets, you'll probably want to group 'collies' into the same category as 'dog'. Those groupings (and total responses) will be what you fill in the Powerpoint slides.

You'll also want an 'answer key' that the judges can use. Download and install and make sure you have the.ahk files from available. Depending on how sophisticated you want to be, you may want to recruit two 'judges' who will help you run the game. That way you can simply 'host' and let them run the presentation. See for details. If you'll just be playing this for a small group, classroom, etc., you should be able to play regular rounds by yourself.

I won't go into the details here of how the game works or what to say at what times; I'll assume you know how to play Family Feud. If you need a refresher, check out.The basic idea is that you'll play the host and your two judges will run the slideshow on your cues. See for what they'll need to know and do. You'll also want to write a script for yourself to follow. Just watch the show a few times and make notes of what to say when.

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Make sure it matches what the judges will have!Legal stuff, etc.I hereby give permission for you to use these files in any way you like: use, copy, distribute, etc., just don't charge for it. Please leave a comment below to let me know how it worked out. Videos and fun memories of your Family Feud game would be especially appreciated. Also, if you make any improvements to these files or methods, please share those in the comments as well.

For reference: Crystal's problem was that she was trying to play multiple bonus rounds. However, the way the bonus round totals work is by counting the number of times you've pressed Ctrl-Win-# - not necessary how many numbers are displayed.To reset the number of times you've pressed Ctrl-Win-#, you need to close the Bonus Round file (and you may want to close Powerpoint completely to be extra safe. Just in case you had another file open in the background or something.) Then re-load the bonus round and it should work fine. Make sure you've loaded the BONUS ROUND AutoHotKey file at that point also.-For programmers: there's no way to read in the values of only displayed boxes - at least not that I could find - so instead I use a static integer to determine how many numbers to sum.

Each Ctrl-Win-# press adds up boxes 1 through #. To reset the static integer you must re-open the PPT file. Hi Tom,I got this going and very excited.

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Using it for a presentation to an audience that should know what we do. We'll see.Instructions are great, couple things that I missed first go:- Setting up the slide: When done, re-select the 'eye' icon next to XXX, XX and X.

This is important for the shortcut keys or it does different behavior. That may be @EMpinoy problem.- If you want to tinker with the code, you have to turn on the developer tab - instructions here: high five! Let me know if you are ever in Vancouver or at an eLearning conference.

I'm on twitter @chadleaman.- Turn those. Hello Rose,Great question! In my original usage I'd made a custom desktop background with the logo. That way whenever I was switching between slideshows, it looked like I was intentionally advertising =) Also, I had a sound board available so I had a friend the main theme (and other funny sound effects) using a second laptop. If that's not an option for you, it could probably work just fine to have the sound files on your desktop. Just click them to play whenever you'd like - but you'll want to test to make sure your media player doesn't pop up on the second screen.Does that make sense? Hope it helps somewhat!Tom.

Hi Rose,Could you say more about what you mean by 'all mixed up'? Here are a couple thoughts:1) Review the steps above in the section, 'Get your survey answers filled in', particularly step 6. That one seems to trip people up sometimes.2) If it's not too much hassle, you could always start with a fresh template and re-enter in your answers (again, being careful to follow the steps in that section above.) Once you've got the hang of it, creating new rounds shouldn't take very long.Let me know if you're still having trouble.Tom. Thanks for your responses Tom.To clarify the mix up, in my presentation for the 1st and 2nd round (does it make sense that round 1 and 2 are one ppt file as opposed to 2 seperate ppt files?),WIN-Z gives me XXXWIN-X gives me XXWhen I press WIN-C I get nothing.In my final round, when I click WIN-CTRL-1 to reveal the point.I don't hear a bell sound but rather my computer buzz sound. Is it supposed to be like that?Thanks for your help. (P.S.: I might have to start a new template, as you suggested.).

Hi Mark,Sorry you're having trouble. In most cases, incorrect strikes indicate that something isn't set up properly in the slide:1) Review the steps above in the section, 'Get your survey answers filled in', particularly step 6. That one seems to trip people up sometimes.2) If it's not too much hassle, you could always start with a fresh template and re-enter in your answers (again, being careful to follow the steps in that section above.) Once you've got the hang of it, creating new rounds shouldn't take very long.Beyond that, I'm not sure what the problem would be.Tom. Hello Faith,I'm glad you like it! Sorry you're having trouble with the strikes. In most cases, incorrect strikes indicate that something isn't set up properly in the slide:1) Review the steps above in the section, 'Get your survey answers filled in', particularly step 6.

That one seems to trip people up sometimes.2) If it's not too much hassle, you could always start with a fresh template and re-enter in your answers (again, being careful to follow the steps in that section above.) Once you've got the hang of it, creating new rounds shouldn't take very long.Beyond that, I'm not sure what the problem would be. If you're still having trouble after trying those suggestions, perhaps I could take a look at your PPT file. Let me know how it turns out.Tom.

Thanks for all the work you've put in.I'm have some questions and have a few issues.1) Question: Am I only able to input peoples' responses in the Slides 1 of 1 screen before the slideshow? (That's one feature I liked about the old ppt file, you could enter stuff on the fly so people wouldn't have to look at the Powerpoint program itself.)2) Issue: When I use the autohotkeys I'm getting a negative buzzer sound when I reveal the person's score using #^1 through #^0 instead of a positive ding.3) Issue: I noticed that in your hotkey script that both #x and #m do the exact same things? So there was no hotkey for 'Recalculate Total' as well?4) Issue: I noticed that #c it ends the powerpoint slideslow if you don't have a timer clock set beforehand. Sorry for the slow response.1) I'm not totally sure I follow. Are you saying that you're running it with only one screen? It's designed to have the presentation run on a second monitor/projector so that people only ever see the presentation without needing to see the editor.

Or am I misunderstanding you? But yes, it's designed to enter all 'regular round' responses in ahead of time.2) When you get the buzzer sound, is it still revealing the answer correctly? Or does a strike appear? If it's the former, I'm not sure what the problem is! There may be some kind of corruption in your file. Could you verify that a fresh download of the ZIP still has the trouble?3) Good find. #m is unnecessary.

It was just left over from an earlier test. And yes, the 'Recalculate Total' tabstop was a failed attempt to have Powerpoint programmatically recalculate the total (which as far as I can tell, is impossible.)4) Yup. That makes sense. It is possible to avoid that possible error, I suppose, by adding another tab stop (that doesn't do anything) after that one.

I'll take a look at that next time I'm poking around with the template. They weren't slow responses, Tom! I appreciate your responding back!1) Now I understand.2 monitors. I wish I had 2 available to me to use as specified, heh.2) It was the former, I get the buzzer but it reveals the answer correctly. I tried redownloading the file and testing it, it still did the same (this test was done with blank entries in the text and point number boxes). So then I tried tested it with the black boxes filled in with random answers and point values, the first person's score worked correctly (#^1) but all the rest did the buzzer noise again. Very strange.3) I understand.4) Again, I understand.And thanks!

I wish Powerpoint had hotkeys so we could avoid this, or that AutoHotKeys would work with the original ppt file of this game.:). I have a new question for you Tom.I like how in your ppt you added the Answer Cover over each spot. How would I go about adding that in the original ppt file. I did a copy and paste and that worked fine but it won't go 'over' the coded box. It seems to only work on text boxes like those you used. But for some reason in the original the coded boxes keep going to the front. I can hear your Answer Cover sliding over and it makes the correct sound but you can't see it.

Any clue how to bring it to the front? (I tried the ppt 'bring it to front/forward but it didn't work right). Yeah, I understand powerpoint reasonably well.wish my Visual Basic knowledge was better.:)Item #2 is still stumping me, I've tried other ideas of mine but no luck. I'll keep trying and post my findings if I succeed.And yep, by original ppt file I was referencing the one from the video. I thought maybe it had to do with the macros but I checked the coding and there didn't seem to be any issues. I did some research online and I may input a command to send the macro code box to the back in the visual basic edit.(Oh, and I might just turn off the television projection I'll have the laptop hooked up to when I input answers for the kids - a relatively quick option to not having 2 monitors). I realized I made an assumption in what I shared above =) Most laptops can output either as 'mirrored'(meaning the projector displays exactly what's on your laptop) OR 'extended desktop', which means the projector shows up as a second monitor.

That latter one is what you want. By doing that, a judge can enter the answers provided in the bonus round into the Powerpoint.program. on the laptop while the audience will only see the Powerpoint.presentation., which will be 'covered up.'

In other words, if you can figure out how to do the 'extended desktop' mode on your laptop, the rest should 'just work' when you test it out. Hi Jonathan!!

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I recently tried to work this program on a Mac last weekend only to find the hotkeys are not for a Mac. I know specifically in the 'What this presentation do and does not do', the author stated that it does not work on a Mac. Hope that helps!I have a problem Tom. If you have more than 4 answers, how do you reveal them.

I had no problem typing them in, but when I go to start the game, answers 5-8 don't get uncovered. You can hear the sound play and see something move behind the box, but nothing besides that.

Other than that, the game is wonderful!! Tom -This is an absolutely wonderful program! I work as the nurse educator in a nursing home, and will be using it later this week to give out prizes during National Nursing Home Week. A few issues, however-First, I can't get a total during the final round.

I've run it a few times and followed your instructions exactly, but still get '0'. Is there a hotkey that must be pressed (I did notice there was mention of 'recalculate total' in the script, but none of those keys make it happen). Second, I can't get the bell to sound when the numbers are revealed in the final round. I'm not sure what the problem is there.

A few things to help narrow it down:. Try downloading a fresh copy of the final round and see if that one behaves differently. Try using a different computer to see if there's something about your Powerpoint setup causing the problem. Did you see any messages about running macros, etc? You should say yes if you see those in the Final Round file.

It's possible that those macros are disabled by default in your Powerpoint program.?Reply back to let me know what you discover! I have all the files, have installed the fonts and both Hotkeys script files. I am a Mac user, but I am running this on Windows 7 us the Home Student 2007 Version. Has it been tested on this version or do I need to upgrade to Home Student 2010? I have no idea what a WIN key is, Which modifier key is the WIN key? I am able to start the game using F5, once the music stops, I have to manually advance to the next slide. If I do a CMD + 1, I get answer 2; CMD + 2 give me answer 3, and so forth.

I am not able to get the X, XX, or XXX using the Z, X, C by themselves or with the CMD, ALT, or CTL: modifiers. Unfortunately I don't have experience running this on a non-Windows keyboard. I don't think you can emulate a Windows key on a Mac keyboard.

At least not easily.What you COULD do it change the AutoHotKey script to use different keys. There's nothing magical about it, but it will require you looking into how to do that on the AutoHotKey website. It's been about two years since I've messed with that stuff, but I don't remember it being difficult.Also, I don't think you'll need to upgrade your Office copy. Home Student 2007 should be fine.Good luck! I'm running Windows 7 under Parallels on my Mac and was able to easily customize the Windows 7 keyboard. Seems to be working sporadically.

Sometimes when I'm in the Fast Money Round, WIN Z is giving me the X sound instead of the 20 second countdown clock. WIN C is giving me the 20 second clock and WIN 1 is giving the 25 second clock.

Both HotKey files are running. Any thoughts? Also, once answers have been entered into the Final Round and the Total points is displayed, is there a command to clear the total or do I just need to zero it out on the slide when I clear out the answers? Thanks so much for this awesome PPT! I am having trouble with the final round. When my 20 second timer is done counting down there is no buzzer to indicate it is over.

Should there be? Also.when I am reveling the answers I have followed the WIN-1 and WIN-CRTL-1 sequence but it will not reveal the answers past the first one and it will always just try to reveal the first answer but the total counts up as it should even though it isn't showing the answers and points after the first answer. We are using this for a company holiday party and this is my stumper right now.