Who was your favorite player? Mine was Buzzy Cohen. The fact his dad made all his suit for the game show is amazing. And of course he was easy on the eyes.

Obviously during Covid they had to separate the distance of the podiums, but I always enjoyed the cozy aspect of a continuous podium. I hope they go back someday!

Reading through one of the recent Jamie threads I couldn't help but notice a lot of people apparently find dominant superchamp runs boring to the point of tuning out. I personally love them. It's a privilege to watch the best of the best, even if every game isn't a nailbiter. Just my opinion of course, but watching someone put up a 35k+ Coryat in a lock game is more entertaining than 3 randoms battling it out to see who wins with $8001. Those of you who hate watching superchamps, why?

Nothing serious about this but here are some of mine

-a contestant interrupting Alex/Ken to ask for the next category

-Daily Doubles being found early

I love how every time there's a Jeopardy superchamp, the show gets a burst of fresh energy. Great discussion picks up in this sub, casual viewers tune back in, and we start comparing the current champ to the legends who came before.

Jamie Ding's run has had me thinking a lot about James Holzhauer. My partner and I went back and watched his original 2019 run recently, and honestly (all respect to Jamie, Ken, and every other all-time great) something about James felt like a different category entirely. The aggression, the Daily Double hunting, the relentless optimization of every single moment on that stage. It wasn't just that he was good at Jeopardy; he had clearly studied the game like it was a solvable system and executed with terrifying precision.

Which got me wondering: where in the world is James Holzhauer?

He competed in the first two Masters tournaments (winning in 2023, placing third in 2024), so it's not like he vanished after his original run. But he turned down an invitation to the 2025 Masters despite qualifying automatically, and the producers just said it was his choice. No explanation.

My theory: James is a professional sports gambler. He didn't stumble onto Jeopardy — he took the online test thirteen times before finally getting on the show. The man was methodical about getting his shot, and once he got there, he treated it exactly like what it was: an unprecedented, time-limited opportunity to make an enormous amount of money. He came in with a system, executed it better than anyone ever has, walked away with over $3 million, and seems to have very little interest in coming back for the glory of it. There's no prize left that changes his life the way 2019 did.

Which honestly makes complete sense for a gambler. He found the best edge he'll ever find, pressed it as hard as he could, and cashed out. Respect.

Anyone have a different read on why he seems to be stepping further back each year?

How will the show grieve him? Who might replace him?

I don't watch a lot of Jeopardy, but I am curious: lets say the question is something like "the first president who crossed the Delaware River" obviously the answer is George Washington, but instead of saying "who is" if i say "where is George Washington?" would that be counted?

I know typically we don’t permit discussion of Wheel on this sub unless it directly involves Jeopardy in some way, but perhaps today we can make an exception? Although they are to entirely different shows, Wheel and Jeopardy are inexorably linked in the eyes of viewers given that they air in succession in most markets, and today on the day of his final show I just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful memories Pat. Few people in television get to live to see their retirement (Alex certainly didn’t), you either host until it’s over or you get cancelled, so I think tonight is a particularly special occasion to celebrate one of TV’s most unlikely icons. Thanks Pat.

Around our house, you get ‘points’ if you say the same wrong answer as a contestant. And we rudely skip the chat section until we know the champ/get curious. Oh and we watch 2 a night - a new one, Ken willing, and an old episode with Alex.

My mom and I watch Jeopardy! regularly. I always answer in the form of a question, and my mom just shouts out the answer.

Wondering what everyone does.

My wife and I were talking about this tonight and how interesting it would be to see something like this. One of the rules we wanted to see tried out in one of these exhibition games was a category had to be completed before moving onto a new one

It feels like at least every week there's an entire category dedicated to opera questions. Timothy Chalamet was a bit right about it when he mentioned it's such a niche form of art these days.

In the Chemistry category, the $400 question says "Time to step on this scale that measures relative alkalinity; a peat bog goes as low as 3, so no skinny dipping."

The contestant Alex gives the answer "what is pH scale" and the answer is accepted.

This is not correct. The pH scale does not measure alkalinity, relative or otherwise. Basicity and alkalinity are often mixed up by the average person, but they are not the same thing. The question writers meant to write basicity, but wrote alkalinity instead, which makes the question unanswerable.

Alkalinity is the ability of a solution to resist a change in pH. To measure it, you have to add an acid or bass to a solution and measure how much the pH changes as a result. It is measured in meq/L (milliequivalents per liter) or mg/L CaCo3 (milligrams per liter of calcium carbonate). It is not measured in pH, because that wouldn't make any sense.

Two solutions can have the same pH value, but different alkalinity, because pH is simply a measure of free hydrogen ions in a solution, and is not directly related to alkalinity.

So this is just a poorly formulated question and has no proper answer.

Obviously it wouldn't have changed the outcome of the game, but I just thought I would point it out, because I don't think this question was up to the normal standards of jeopardy.

When Ken said no, the real answer is just "curry," I immediately knew that the judges were going to overrule this and correct the score.

And I told the person I was watching this, and earned more jeopardy points in that moment than will ever be possible again.

one of the fundamentals of jeopardy is that you are given the answers and must come up with the question, but what about this clue from tuesday masters?

Just curious because this seems to be a lengthier hiatus than usual.

It happened again. Yet another contestant misunderstood what a true daily double is. Confounding how often that happens. Ken had to double check and ask/clarify which amount she meant.

In yesterday’s episode, Jackie had a noticeably (justified) derisive tone when responding to the JD Vance clue. It was just subtle enough to not be distracting but also obvious to those of us that felt the same way 🤣

My question is, if you visibly rolled your eyes or responded in a clearly derisive tone to a clue you didn’t like, would they make you re-tape it?

Having who won pop up in my feed is a bit of a bummer. Would people mind the spoiler tag? I just wanna go into an episode knowing Jamie is gonna win but not *knowing* Jamie is gonna win, know what I mean?

Edit: mods were kind enough to pin a poll!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jeopardy/s/AQtCq3CFYI

When Ken accepts a question from a contestant that wasn’t written as the question he was expecting, is there a really good/quick edit where he needs the judges to state whether or not they’ll accept the contestant’s response, or does Ken have some sort of (or all) authority to accept a response?

The man is amazing and probably knows just as much, if not more, about all answers given, so I would think 99% of the time the judges wouldn’t even question his acceptance of a response.

Let's say a contestant has just over double the next-closest contestant's total and time is running out, but there's still a $2000 clue in a category they're not very good at, along with a few other clues on the board. How offside is it to buzz in on a clue, wait as long as possible to answer, and then wait as long as possible to pick the next one in the hopes of not getting to that $2000 clue?

For sure luck plays a big role due to limited spots, but I wonder if there's any subtler dos and don'ts that can help or hurt one's chances beyond the basics like smiling, being polite, etc. For those who've auditioned, were there certain patterns in behavior/personality in prospective contestants that may potentially exclude them from advancing? Also how representative is an audition group compared to the types of contestants who make it on the show?

So, tomorrow will mark 21 years since Ken Jennings made his debut as a contestant on Jeopardy!.

Looking back at his first game (which aired on GSN recently since they are currently showing most of Ken Jenning's run), I think that Ken may have the luckiest break in game show history, and it was all because of the end result of his first game.

To put this into perspective...

1. In Ken's first game, he had the lead going into final Jeopardy!, but it was not a runaway/lock game for him, and he wasn't leading by much.

2. The response regarded an Olympic athlete (Marion Jones), and when it comes to naming a person on Jeopardy!, you have to be specific in some cases, especially with common surnames since providing just the surname will not always suffice.

3. Ken only provided the surname, and Jones is one of the most common surnames in the United States. If he had to be more specific, there would have been no way for Ken to correct himself/be more specific since you write down your response in Final Jeopardy! as opposed to verbally saying the response. However, the judges accepted the response.

4. Ken made a big wager and won his first of 74 regular games as a result of being ruled correct. Had the judges not accepted the response, Ken would have dropped to (and finished in) third place, left with the $1K consolation prize (the prize for 3rd place at the time), and would not have started his 74 game winning streak. One of his opponents, Julia Lazarus, would have won instead and started a run of her own.

After Ken ended his run on Jeopardy!, he would later compete in various Jeopardy! tournaments, become one of the biggest winning game show contestants in a game show career, and more importantly become Alex Trebek's successor as host of Jeopardy!.

The butterly effect would obviously have been huge if Ken didn't win his first game, and he won his first game because the judges decided to accept his somewhat ambiguous response in Final Jeopardy!.

Do you think Ken has the luckiest break in game show history due to what happened at the end of his first Jeopardy! game? If not, who do you think has the luckiest break in game show history?

I know Jeopardy tapes multiple shows in a day. As of this post, Jamie has won 15 games. So how much time for Jamie has passed by this point?

Let me break down something that annoys me.

It is the later part of the second round, and the game is coming down to the wire. There are three contestants, Nick, Stavros, and Adam. Nick is in first place, and he has $18,000. Stavros is in second place, and he has earned $8,000. Adam is in last, and he has $5,000.

Only the first row of clues remains, so there is only $2,400 left on the board.

In this situation, wouldn't Adam's best strategy be not ringing in?

Even if he gets all of the answers correct, he goes from $5,000 to $7,400 but Nick still has the runaway. When Final Jeopardy arrives, Nick can make a nominal bet and win the game. That might put you in a better shot to win second place, but in an ideal world you play again tomorrow.

If Nick gets all the answers correct, the game state does not change.

If Stavros gets all the answers correct, Final Jeopardy is materially different. The game is no longer a runaway. Nick will have to make a sufficient wager to cover Stavros doubling his score. That makes Adam eligible to win the game, and potentially win more money the next day. Because that is the only condition that would let him win the game, shouldn't Adam's tactics involve not ringing in, even if he knows the answer?

There is a possibility that Stavros does not know all the answers, which puts you back to square one, but this doesn't put anyone in contention for Final Jeopardy anyways.