Current Champion
Matthew Riggle, career statistics:
47 correct, 6 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
41.23% in first on buzzer (47/114)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,300
To win:
3 games: 68.027%
4: 46.277%
5: 31.481%
6: 21.415%
7: 14.568%
Avg. streak: 4.128 games.
(Next game: September 14)
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Jeopardy! Masters Standings
(Quarterfinal Final Standings)
1) Victoria Groce, 15 points, 5 wins, 172 correct responses, $126,000 Coryat Score, $121,000 earned before Final Jeopardy
2) Yogesh Raut, 12 points, 3 wins, 106 correct responses, $69,000 Coryat Score, $69,800 earned before Final Jeopardy
3) Paolo Pasco, 8 points, 1 win, 94 correct responses, $62,400 Coryat Score, $71,400 earned before Final Jeopardy
4) Andrew He, 5 points, 1 win, 89 correct responses, $53,000 Coryat Score, $50,400 earned before Final Jeopardy
5) Long Nguyen, 5 points, 1 win, 68 correct responses, $40,200 Coryat Score, $45,200 earned before Final Jeopardy
6) Juveria Zaheer, 3 points, 1 win, 86 correct responses, $60,600 Coryat Score, $68,400 earned before Final Jeopardy
Upcoming Encore Presentations
September 3: S42 E114 (February 12, 2026)
September 4: S42 E115 (February 13, 2026)
September 5-6: S41 E144 (March 27, 2025)
September 7: S42 E116 (February 16, 2026)
September 8: S42 E117 (February 17, 2026)
September 9: S42 E118 (February 18, 2026)
September 10: S42 E119 (February 19, 2026)
September 11: S42 E120 (February 20, 2026)
September 12-13: S41 E145 (March 28, 2025)
September 19-20: S42 E173 (May 6, 2026)
(Source: Bell Fibe TV program guide)
All Time Winnings
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:
1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):
1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,098,403
7. Mattea Roach $897,983
8. Jamie Ding $885,605
9. David Madden $785,733
10. Victoria Groce $773,801
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Larissa Kelly $671,930
14. Matt Jackson $623,612
15. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
16. Andrew He $534,365
17. Scott Riccardi $533,000
18. Jerome Vered $499,102
19. Julia Collins $495,767
20. Austin Rogers $493,000
21. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
22. Ben Ingram $449,201
23. Paolo Pasco $448,717
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
Last night I had the pleasure of chatting with 4-time Jeopardy! champ Buddy Wright. He has won his matches since the last Tournament of Champions, so he is eligible to be in the next one! With more than $89,000 in regular-season winnings, he is second to Terry Linwood as the winningest Texan on Jeopardy!
Buddy had an early start on the road to Jeopardy! glory: By second grade he was reading at the level of a senior in high school. Buddy tells me he and his mom Margaret played Scrabble together when he was growing up, which probably helped! Buddy thinks he has only beaten her at Scrabble twice in his life! He and his mom also used to watch Jeopardy! together, and they’d keep track of their scores with a calculator. I asked Buddy if his mom ever took the Jeopardy! test. He said, “[S]he didn’t even fly out to watch me film, because she said it would be too nerve-wracking for her….I don’t think she’ll ever try out, though she’s every bit as good at this as I am, if not better.”
Buddy’s father John, who died when Buddy was 16, also contributed to the foundation on which Buddy built his winning ways: He helped Buddy with homework as a boy. At the time of his death, John was nine credit hours away from completing a degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas – Arlington. The university set up a scholarship in John’s honor, which ended due to lack of funding. Buddy says his father was a big influence on him, and adds, “I always remember him studying, working hard at the books. If I win big in the tournament, I’m going to reestablish a scholarship in my dad’s memory, to help people in the EE department who have returned to school after a long absence.”
Today, Buddy’s wife Jill keeps track of his score via the Coryat method so he knows what his weaker subjects are as he is preparing for the possibility of appearing on the Tournament of Champions. Says Buddy, “There’s a quarter of a million dollars at stake – I think I would be remiss if I did not try to prepare in some way.” I asked Buddy if Jill hoped to be on Jeopardy! He said, “My wife is a great inspiration, and a great coach, but she doesn’t have any aspirations to be on Jeopardy!” Buddy’s wife helped him keep track of his score as he was taking the online test before he first appeared on the show. (Incidentally, it was the first/only time he took the test!) She also reads Trivial Pursuit questions to him when they are on road trips together!
I had read that Buddy had felt a sense of relief when he lost his fifth game. This surprised me, but I’ve read that Ken Jennings had similar feelings, and Stephen Weingarten told me he did as well. I asked Buddy about that. He said, “Jeopardy! is the most stressful thing I have ever done. So when I did lose, there absolutely was a sense of relief. If I had lost the first game, I think I would’ve felt differently. 🙂 But I really don’t know how David Madden and Ken Jennings managed to win as many as they did in a row.”
Buddy taped his five episodes in two separate trips to Los Angeles. This added to the stress: “We flew back to DFW, I went to work the next day and had to immediately ask for more time off. Then I had to arrange for someone to watch my son again while we traveled back to LA. Then there’s just the logistics of booking Jill’s flight, unpacking, repacking, doing laundry, all of that stuff. By the time I got back to LA, I was a wreck :)”
Come back tomorrow to find out about Buddy’s quiz bowl past and about his experience volunteering at the National History Bee and Bowl.
Courtesy Buddy Wright, via Jeopardy!