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This game’s Jeopardy! Masters contestants:
Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California (13-8, 6 points)
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Yogesh Raut, an educational blogger, podcast host & writer originally from Springfield, Illinois (14-12, 8 points)
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Victoria Groce, a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (15-6, 10 points)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
This week’s first game of Jeopardy! Masters features Victoria Groce, Yogesh Raut, and Isaac Hirsch. All three players are guaranteed to qualify for the semifinals, and the degree to which this game matters depends on if scores carry over between the quarterfinals and semifinals—and the show has not explicitly stated whether this is the case either way.
The Unified Prediction Model does favor Victoria slightly, giving Victoria a 42.6% chance of winning, compared to Yogesh’s 36.4% and Isaac’s 21.0%.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! Masters today? Here’s the Tuesday, May 27, 2025 Jeopardy! Masters (game 1) by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Nonfiction; World Leaders; Double Talk; Almost Rhymes With Orange; 5 Bands; Baking With Dame Prue)
Yogesh found the Daily Double, but Victoria had a big lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Victoria 15 correct 1 incorrect
Yogesh 11 correct 0 incorrect
Isaac 3 correct 0 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Victoria 9,200
Yogesh 5,000
Isaac 2,200
Today’s interviews:
Isaac wants his father (who lost in 1985) to get a second chance.
Yogesh is Team “Team Yogesh” (from Ben Chan’s classes).
Victoria is about to send daughter Nora off to study abroad in Korea.
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Ancient Egypt; Opera; It’s A Morass; Measuring Up!; Best Picture Oscar Winners; It Will All End With “Q”)
Victoria lost everything on DD2, but got DD3 correct in the middle of dominating this one.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Victoria 29 correct 3 incorrect
Yogesh 18 correct 3 incorrect
Isaac 8 correct 1 incorrect
Scores going into Final:
Victoria 16,000
Yogesh 7,400
Isaac 6,600
Yogesh and Victoria were both correct; Victoria takes 3 points, Yogesh 1.
Tonight’s results:
Isaac 6,600 – $1,000 = $5,600 (What is The Best Years of our li)
Yogesh 7,400 + $5,801 = $13,201 (What Goodbye Columbus)
Victoria 16,000 + $0 = $16,000 (What is Goodbye, Columbus?)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) NONFICTION $600 (clue #2)
Yogesh 800 +1000 (Victoria 0 Isaac 0)
2) OPERA $1600 (clue #2)
Victoria 10400 -10400 (Yogesh 5000 Isaac 2200)
3) MEASURING UP! $2000 (clue #19, $7200 left on board)
Victoria 13600 +400 (Yogesh 6200 Isaac 5000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 3
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Victoria 4
Yogesh 3*
Isaac
DJ! Round:
Victoria 4* 5 3 2 5 4 3 2 4 5 3 5 5*
Yogesh 4 3 5†
Isaac 3 3 4
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Victoria 3.86
Yogesh 3.75
Isaac 3.33
Game Stats:
Victoria $28,000 Coryat, 29 correct, 3 incorrect, 49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Yogesh $7,000 Coryat, 18 correct, 3 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Isaac $6,600 Coryat, 8 correct, 1 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $41,600
Lach Trash: $3,400 (on 4 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,000
Player Statistics:
Victoria Groce, career statistics:
563 correct, 74 incorrect
17/21 on rebound attempts (on 65 rebound opportunities)
42.73% in first on buzzer (558/1306)
29/35 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $158,905)
13/23 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,017
Yogesh Raut, career statistics:
607 correct, 55 incorrect
44/49 on rebound attempts (on 104 rebound opportunities)
35.24% in first on buzzer (562/1595)
22/23 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $140,694)
16/28 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,079
Isaac Hirsch, career statistics:
483 correct, 92 incorrect
28/35 on rebound attempts (on 90 rebound opportunities)
39.11% in first on buzzer (490/1253)
19/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $13,200)
13/22 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,736
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Victoria is amazing. To lose everything in a daily double and still come back to win by a runaway tells you how good she is at this game!