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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Communication) for Monday, March 31, 2025 (Season 41, Game 146):
Invented by a student in 1824, this system has a total of 64 combinations
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Allison Willard, a paralegal from Weddington, North Carolina
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Bryce Wargin, a post market surveillance coordinator from Kansas City, Missouri
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Josh Weikert, a politics professor from Collegeville, Pennsylvania (6-day total: $100,202)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
We have a 6-game champion on Jeopardy! in Collegeville, Pennsylvania’s Josh Weikert; today, he faces off against Kansas City’s Bryce Wargin and North Carolina’s Allison Willard.
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Correct response: What is Braille?
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After an accident with an awl in his father’s shop at the age of 3, Louis Braille ended up blinded in both eyes. While at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth, he developed a system of tactile code—today known as Braille—that could allow blind people to read quickly and efficiently, and has since been adopted worldwide. This system was a series of six raised dots—the 64 combinations, or 2 to the power of 6.
To me, I saw the number 64, realized it was 2 to the power of 6, and immediately realized that today’s Final Jeopardy clue was referring to the Braille language.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, March 31, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Florence + The Simple Machine; Country Music History; Rhyme Time; Constitutional Amendments; I Got Me A Car; It’s As Big As A Whale)
All three players played well early, with Josh taking the lead on the last clue before the interviews. At the break, the scores were Josh $3,200 Allison $2,600 Bryce $1,400.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Josh 5 correct 0 incorrect
Allison 5 correct 0 incorrect
Bryce 4 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Allison has a collection of more than 100 fountain pens.
Bryce has a cat named Soren Catkegaard who saved Bryce’s family on a road trip.
Josh had a running bet on Final Jeopardy with his father when they watched.
Bryce got to the Daily Double as a result of Allison picking a $200 clue; that pulled Bryce closer to the lead, but Josh still led.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Josh 14 correct 1 incorrect
Allison 7 correct 0 incorrect
Bryce 8 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Josh $7,400
Allison $4,600
Bryce $3,800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Birth Of A Nation; 20th Century Novels; Getting Religion; Type “A.B.”: Negative Or Positive; Nepo Parents; Oxymorons)
Allison found DD2, betting just $2,000 on it. She then went to a $400 clue, allowing for Bryce to get control and double up through DD3. All three players were in five figure soing into Final, with Josh picking up 7 correct to lead going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Josh 21 correct 2 incorrect
Bryce 14 correct 4 incorrect
Allison 19 correct 5 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 30 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Josh $15,000
Bryce $12,400
Allison $11,800
Bryce was the only player correct in Final—and that makes him the new Jeopardy! Champion! He’ll be back tomorrow to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Allison $11,800 – $8,700 = $3,100 (What is ? I love)
Bryce $12,400 + $3,000 = $15,400 (What is Braille? I love you Jennifer!) (1-day total: $15,400)
Josh $15,000 – $9,801 = $5,199 (What is Semafore Morse Code)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) IT’S AS BIG AS A WHALE $600 (clue #19)
Bryce 1600 +1600 (Josh 4000 Allison 3600)
2) GETTING RELIGION $1200 (clue #4)
Allison 7000 +2000 (Josh 9400 Bryce 3800)
3) BIRTH OF A NATION $1200 (clue #6, $28800 left on board)
Bryce 4200 +4200 (Josh 9400 Allison 8600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 229
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Josh 5 3 2 1 5 4 5
Bryce 4 3 4 5 3*
Allison 1 2 3 4 2 3 1
DJ! Round:
Josh 4
Bryce 5 3*
Allison 2 3* 1†
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Bryce 3.86
Josh 3.63
Allison 2.20
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 30 (0.21 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Bryce $8,400 Coryat, 14 correct, 4 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Josh $15,000 Coryat, 21 correct, 2 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Allison $11,000 Coryat, 19 correct, 5 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $34,400
Lach Trash: $6,400 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $13,200
Lead Changes: 6
Times Tied: 2
Player Statistics:
Josh Weikert, career statistics:
161 correct, 23 incorrect
7/8 on rebound attempts (on 29 rebound opportunities)
40.10% in first on buzzer (160/399)
7/9 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $12,200)
2/7 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,914
Bryce Wargin, career statistics:
15 correct, 4 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $5,800)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,400
Allison Willard, career statistics:
19 correct, 6 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,000
Bryce Wargin, to win:
2 games: 48.021%
3: 23.060%
4: 11.074%
5: 5.318%
6: 2.554%
Avg. streak: 1.924 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I suspect there’s going to be some talk online about the golf wedge clue—but the pitching wedge in my bag right now has 44º of loft and a standard sand wedge has 56º of loft; there’s nothing wrong with saying there’s around a 10º difference in loft between a pitching and sand wedge in 2025, considering most bags will range between an 8º and 12º difference.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Josh $15,000 Bryce $12,400 Allison $11,800)
Josh: Standard cover bet over Bryce is $9,801. (Actual bet: $9,801)
Bryce: You can’t both cover Allison and win a Triple Stumper. If you do go small, playing for a Triple Stumper, limit your bet to $599 here to force Allison to be correct to pass you. Otherwise, you might as well go all in to force Josh to cover. (Actual bet: $3,000)
Allison: You have a couple of options here. You could bet no more than $5,600 and hope for a Triple Stumper and cover bet from Bryce, or if you don’t think Bryce will cover, go all in. (Actual bet: $8,700)
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Was caught between between Braille and Sign Language. I went for Braille.
The word “communication” confused me. I went for the semaphore telegraph (see Murray 6-shutter system; alas, 30 years off), knowing that Samuel Morse was not a student when he invented his system.
I immediately recognized 64 being 2 to the power of 6 – unfortunately, I was not familiar with Braille being a combination of six dots. Something new I’ve learned today.
I was familiar with the six dots because when ADA went into effect they put up braille labels beside the numeric labels by the elevator buttons in the 31 floor office building I worked in. Elevator rides are boring so I would spend time observing the braille — after a few weeks I had figured out that that one of the labels for one of the buttons on one of the elevators was wrong! After confirming that I reported it to HR, but I highly doubt they ever fixed it. [I have no idea how it could come to be wrong as I never found another one that was wrong, even after specifically looking on all the elevators for the button that should have had that particular “bad” braille label on it.]
After reading about Helen Keller a few weeks ago, that lead me to a link on Braille, And reading about him, I quickly responded with Braille. I had no idea weeks ago, this FJ topic would come up.
“Invented by a student” + early 1800s + 64 combinations = probably Braille.
I have no excuse for missing this. I’m embarrassed.
Don’t feel too bad about it. I’m a blind person who has used Braille my entire life and I almost missed it. Took me an easy 15-20 seconds for it to finally dawn on me.
This Final Jeopardy was another I struggled with. I went with Semaphore, just presuming that two flags in various positions might add up to 64 combinations. I kkkkknow that Braille is series of raised dots in various positions, and, combinations, and, Louis Braille developed it. The part of there being 64 combinations escaped me.
I also went with semaphore without knowing origin facts or how many combinations, even though I assumed it could be less than 64 for memorization (and identification from a distance) simplicity. [I now know it is 64.] I thought it could have been invented by a cadet which is a kind of student. [But it was an engineer-cleric.] I’d also though it COULD HAVE been long before 1824. [But the origin time was only 32 years before braille.]
I had somewhat of an unfair advantage for today’s final. When my older sister became blind at the age of 13, I made a point of learning about Braille. I learned enough to know all the letters and how they were formed and I also knew the story of Louis Braille. This made today’s final easy enough for me but I did not think it would be a Triple Get which it wasn’t.
By the way, my sister has been a big Jeopardy! fan for years even though she can’t see the clues. With Alex and now Ken reading the clues, it is easy enough for a blind person to follow (except for the video clues). That’s really a great feature of the show and lends itself to be appealing to blind folks.
Not wishing retroactive bad luck to Josh, I was pleased to see that his wrong response was the same as mine [even if he did second-guess himself]. I know that Morse Code had far fewer combinations [in fact, it has just a few more than 36].
The Morse code has 62 usable combinations in up-to-5 dits/dahs (2 + 4 + 8 + 16 + 32).
Leo,
Why isn’t Morse Code 64 combinations for a sequence of 6 just like Braille (2 to the 6th power)? What are the two unusable combinations? Why aren’t they both 64? (2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 64) Why are you adding doubles instead of multiplying? What am I missing here? Can you explain these two different calculations so that an old man can understand it? Thanks.
A valid Morse code sequence is essentially a binary sequence of length between one and five (inclusive). There are two such sequences of length one (0 and 1), four such sequences of length two (00, 01, 10, 11), etc. We’re counting mutually exclusive cases, so the numbers are added.
A Braille pattern can be represented by a binary sequence of fixed length six. This is a different set altogether, so the fact that there are fewer Morse code sequences doesn’t imply that there are any unusable combinations.
Eric has explained it well. Unlike Braille, the Morse code sequences are of variable length, and, unlike Braille, where the empty space counts as a combination (otherwise it would have been 63 rather than 64), in the Morse code a pause (no dits, no dahs) is not considered a combination.
I had gotten that Morse Code has “a few more than 36” from somewhere on the internet. I mentioned that extras were for some special characters, punctuation, etc. But I don’t see how it can just be 32 since 26 letters of the alphabet and 10 digits [0-9] add up to 36. Did they omit some letters who have “sound doppelgangers”? [Like c for c & z, maybe k for k and q?]
Correction: I was trying to type “It mentioned”, not “I mentioned”.
You’re mixing “combinations” and “assigned code points”. Indeed, not all combinations of 5 are in use. This picture shows the structure of the code.
(BTW, I was a military Morse radio operator about 40 years ago.)
Hmmm, URL anchors don’t seem to be prominent. Hover over the words “This picture” and click.
Thanks!
Message for Allison. My 89 year old Aunt gave me her school fountain pen. I would love if it went to someone who would appreciate and love it like I have.
I Got Me A Car and It’s As Big As A Whale as categories was very hilarious to me, as a big B-52s fan. All I needed was And I’m About To Set Sail as a third category to make my life complete.