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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Upcoming Encore Presentations
September 11: S42 E120 (February 20, 2026)
September 12-13: S41 E145 (March 28, 2025)
September 19-20: S42 E173 (May 6, 2026)
September 26-27: S42 E174 (May 7, 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
I hope everyone’s Thanksgiving was excellent! Here’s a week of fresh—not leftover—thoughts from behind the editorial desk!
Introducing: A Mailbag Column
As I’m interested in still imparting advice and being useful to the Jeopardy community at large, I’m going to be starting a “Mailbag” column next week. If you have any questions about Jeopardy history or other show-related topics, email me (mailbag at thejeopardyfan dot com) and I’ll answer some of them every week!
Look for the Mailbag column starting next Sunday!
What Ed Showed Us This Week In Terms Of Shoutouts
If you’d watched on Thursday, you noticed that Ed Hashima felt he had time to write a shout-out on screen during Final Jeopardy, but then didn’t have enough time to change his response later in Final Jeopardy. Certainly, I would say going forward that this is the #1 reason why you shouldn’t do shoutouts—every second used to think of your shoutout wording is one less second that you could be using to think about the clue itself, and it was clear that Ed could have used an extra couple of seconds on Thursday.
In fact, the only reason why a shoutout should ever be attempted is if you’ve bet $0 in Final Jeopardy. This was the same advice Michael Dupée gave in the late 1990s—his advice even went further, suggesting that a $0 bet should always be followed by either a shoutout or a clear failure to attempt a response. (This is because it also avoids questions later of a “Why did you bet $0 when you knew it?” from less-informed fans.) To that end, what Daniel Nguyen did earlier this season in his Champions Wildcard quarterfinal is an example of this—he bet $0 and then gave a shoutout to a recently deceased colleague who was beloved at his school.
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My Predictions For The Upcoming Schedule:
There’s been a little bit of speculation online about the upcoming tournament and regular play schedule. Based off what I’ve seen publicly announced (as well as inferences based on the On Camera Audiences schedules and other things), here’s what I am predicting:
- The Hearts bracket of Fall 2023 Champions Wildcard brings us to December 18.
- 4 weeks of Season 39 Second Chance (the first fully “post-strike” episodes with the intended returning contestants) — December 19–January 15.
- 2 Champions Wildcard brackets, January 16–February 2 & February 5–February 22.
A 23, 25, or 27-player Tournament of Champions (Michael Davies said on Inside Jeopardy that this would be the largest one ever), beginning on February 23 and ending between March 12–20 (depending on field size and how many games the finals goes). It should be noted that the first round of March Madness begins Thursday, March 21—this is another day where the show gets pre-empted on a number of CBS stations around the country. I would say that it is important for the show to make absolutely sure that the Tournament of Champions does not run into March Madness pre-emptions.
A 27-player Jeopardy Invitational Tournament, 14 episodes following the Tournament of Champions (ending between April 1–9, depending on Tournament of Champions length), with the winner of JIT getting a spot in this spring’s Jeopardy Masters. (I will post a preview of who we might see in that event in the coming days.)
- The remainder of the season: regular play (between 78–84 episodes).
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In Closing
I think that next week is going to be an exciting one—I hope you enjoy it!
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