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Andy’s Weekly Thoughts: June 12–16, 2023
What Happened on Tuesday? Here’s My Best Guess
Current Champion
Mark Ramirez, career statistics:
52 correct, 9 incorrect
5/6 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
44.74% in first on buzzer (51/114)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $200)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,600
To win:
3 games: 61.692%
4: 38.059%
5: 23.479%
6: 14.485%
7: 8.936%
Avg. streak: 3.610 games.
(Click Here for Methodology)
Upcoming Encore Presentations
September 19-20: S42 E173 (May 6, 2026)
September 26-27: S42 E174 (May 7, 2026)
October 3-4: S42 E175 (May 8, 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 $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
The website went down at about 7:24 PM EDT on Tuesday, June 13. It was essentially down for most of the next 40 hours. Unfortunately, we could not determine what specifically caused the outage; my best guess is that a WordPress plugin was causing the issue. However, I have moved the website to a new server, where hopefully, any server outages going forward would be incredibly rare.
On Winning
I’ve received some pushback from people regarding my “The point of Jeopardy! is to win” comments on Monday. I stand by my comments. I’ve researched past contestants in newspapers, trying to fill in gaps in the community’s knowledge of early seasons. And one thing I’ve found is that people in these articles are more likely to talk about how many games somebody won on the show instead of how much money somebody won on the show. If you’re a champion, they refer to you as a Jeopardy! champion, or a 2-time champion, not someone who won $20,000 on the show.
I Would Have Added One More Clue to Friday’s Final
The difficulty of Final Jeopardy on Friday has certainly been the subject of the most discussion since the episode aired. Being that one contestant matched my prediction of Lake Champlain, and everyone’s response was well north of the Mason-Dixon Line, it’s clear that the contestants were definitely thinking in the wrong part of the country. I would have reworded the clue as follows: Native Americans called this Southern lake Okwa-ta, or “wide water”; Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville would rename it for a countryman. That one extra clue, “this Southern lake”, would have hopefully pointed the contestants in the right direction to get the Final correct.
Happy Father’s Day!
This article is being published on Father’s Day. I’ve said it many times on this site, and in interviews, that my father’s love of Jeopardy!, and how he would watch the show’s early seasons, is one of the main reasons why I am a Jeopardy! fan myself. So, everyone has my father to blame at this point. Happy Father’s Day, Dad!
Extra $ for Getting Final Jeopardy Correct? It Almost Happened!
Here’s a fun fact that I’m sure not many people knew about Jeopardy!: According to a 1986 article detailing a contestant search in Asheville, North Carolina, from the Anderson (South Carolina) Independent-Mail, Jeopardy! was considering awarding a $1,000 bonus (outside of the confines of the game, I presume) to each player who got Final Jeopardy! correct. (No, I’m not going to link to the article—it contains a quote from Alex Trebek with language that would have been seen as acceptable in 1986 but is horrific to read in 2023.) While the show never implemented the change, it’s an interesting thought that at least would have brought “something to play for” into runaways. What do you think?
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