Netflix is supposed to have a recommendation system that becomes uncanny good at picking movies and TV shows for you. It’s based on you rating examples (or “not seen” = no opinion), and usually there’s a follow-up question which seems designed to sharpen the algorithm’s “understanding” of your answers.

I was bored with my Netflix queue, so I decided to click “Taste Profile” (taking on faith that “taste” is not a verb in this case) and see if I could encourage The Great Netflix Algorithm to smile on my queue. I dug in and clicked and dispatched movie icons in a blur for ten or fifteen minutes. But then I noticed the follow-up questions started getting weird. When it asked me “How often do you watch historical documentaries like ‘Behind the Planet of the Apes’?”, I accepted the challenge, and Netflix Jeopardy® was born.

You need a Netflix account to play. Game play takes place on a board consisting of five rows of four cells. Your computerized opponent will display icon-size movie posters, and below are stars for rating the item, or a “haven’t seen” button to dismiss it and draw another one from the pile. When you get a bizarre/clueless/somehow funny question, stop fiddling with that square and move on. Power players will click “haven’t seen” along an entire row to speed things along. You win when you fill up the grid with prize questions.

Without further ado, my Netflix Jeopardy® game board: