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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category U.S. Business) for Wednesday, June 11, 2025 (Season 41, Game 198):
The “stencil” logo released in 1979 for this chain used only 2 colors, one of which emphasized “energy” & “value”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Rob Forrester, a stagehand from Portland, Oregon
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Jan Zimmerman, a retired elementary school music teacher from Newark, Delaware
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Matt Massie, an attorney originally from South Charleston, West Virginia (1-day total: $30,000)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Matt Massie went aggressive on his Daily Double betting yesterday and walked away with a victory. Today, he faces off against Jan Zimmerman and Rob Forrester.
One thing I want to remind readers, especially about the prediction model: Jeopardy! is a game with a significant amount of variance, even at the regular play level—and part of that variance comes from the fact that we don’t actually know how strong (or weak) the challengers are on any given day. Against average opposition, the prediction model thinks Matt is 63% to win at this point (and a lot of that comes from the inherent advantage that a Jeopardy! champ has against two new players.) But against stronger opposition, that number comes down significantly. So, I don’t exactly appreciate the hate mail that I receive when someone who is considered 60% to win a regular play game happens to lose. It’s completely inappropriate and says more about you than it does me (or the Unified Prediction Model.)
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Correct response: What is The Home Depot?
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The orange-and-white stencil logo of Home Depot, unveiled when its first stores opened in the Atlanta area in 1979, was selected by Don Watt because he believed that the orange color would cause customers to perceive the fledgling chain as one of value and energy.
Business clues in Final Jeopardy always seem to trip players up a lot—while the way into this is to think of a chain with a stencil-looking logo, it always feels more difficult on stage to do so. We’ll see how this one plays.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, June 11, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Lookin’ Back, Texas; Mother’s Milk; Do The Write Thing; Sometimes You Just Gotta Know Stuff; “Old” Songs; Woe-Pourri)
Even though Matt got the Daily Double incorrect, he was the only one with money after 15 clues. At the interviews, the scores were Matt $3,400 Rob -$800 Jan -$1,000.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Matt 7 correct 1 incorrect
Rob 2 correct 3 incorrect
Jan 1 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Rob once met Dick Van Dyke.
Jan had a Bat Mitzvah at the age of 68.
Matt played the viola in youth orchestra.
Both challengers got out of the hole as Matt still led after 30.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Matt 12 correct 3 incorrect
Rob 7 correct 3 incorrect
Jan 5 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt $4,400
Rob $1,000
Jan $800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Countries That Start With A Vowel; Literature; Change An E To An I; Same Last Name; Actors & Their Roles; Medieval Europe)
Matt picked up a combined $11,000 on the two Daily Doubles in this round, cruising to a runaway.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Matt 28 correct 5 incorrect
Rob 14 correct 6 incorrect
Jan 7 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 40 (3 today).
Scores going into Final:
Matt $29,000
Rob $6,600
Jan $3,200
Unsurprisingly, this Final Jeopardy turned out to be a Triple Stumper; this one is probably shaping up to be one of the toughest of the season. Matt bet just $1,000 and is now a 2-day champion. He’ll go for #3 tomorrow.
Tonight’s results:
Jan $3,200 – $3,199 = $1 (What is Staples? Meow)
Rob $6,600 – $5,999 = $601 (What was K-Mart?)
Matt $29,000 – $1,000 = $28,000 (What K-Mart) (2-day total: $58,000)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) DO THE WRITE THING $1000 (clue #12)
Matt 4400 -2000 (Jan -1000 Rob -800)
2) COUNTRIES THAT START WITH A VOWEL $1200 (clue #15)
Matt 12000 +6000 (Jan 800 Rob 8200)
3) CHANGE AN E TO AN I $2000 (clue #22, $4800 left on board)
Matt 21600 +5000 (Jan 2800 Rob 7000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 28
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Matt 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5*
Jan 3 2
Rob 3
DJ! Round:
Matt 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 3* 2† 5 5 5*
Jan 3 5 3
Rob 2 3 2 5 2 3 1
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Matt 4.19
Rob 2.63
Jan 3.20
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: CHANGE AN E TO AN I $400 $800 ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $400
Total Left On Board: $1,600
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 40 (0.20 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Matt $23,200 Coryat, 28 correct, 5 incorrect, 53.70% in first on buzzer (29/54), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Rob $6,600 Coryat, 14 correct, 6 incorrect, 31.48% in first on buzzer (17/54), 0/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Jan $3,200 Coryat, 7 correct, 2 incorrect, 11.11% in first on buzzer (6/54), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $33,000
Lach Trash: $7,400 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $12,000
Lead Changes: 3
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Matt Massie, career statistics:
47 correct, 8 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
41.44% in first on buzzer (46/111)
3/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $16,200)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,800
Jan Zimmerman, career statistics:
7 correct, 3 incorrect
3/3 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
11.11% in first on buzzer (6/54)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $3,200
Rob Forrester, career statistics:
14 correct, 7 incorrect
0/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
31.48% in first on buzzer (17/54)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,600
Matt Massie, to win:
3 games: 67.520%
4: 45.590%
5: 30.782%
6: 20.784%
7: 14.033%
Avg. streak: 4.079 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s runaway game means that no wagering suggestions will be posted.
- As was demonstrated multiple times during the opening round, viewers are reminded that the rules of the show are such that incomplete song titles are incorrect, while overfull song titles that contain a correct surrounding lyric are considered correct.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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Once I see the answer, it seems obvious, but I didn’t get there.
I go to The Home Depot often enough to have seen the logo in large enough letters to see that it was stencil style many times, but it has not consciously registered. It appears that “energy” and “value” make people think of red; I said Safeway. At least, unlike K-Mart or Staples, the Safeway logo does not have areas of red fully surrounded by white.
Or rather areas of white surrounded by red, as in the letter A/a.
Since you mentioned the prediction model, Andy, the your calculation for two days is the square of the one day, for three days is the cube of one day, etc. But I would think that, on average, that the more you play, the better you get on the buzzer and the more relaxed you become, so I would think there would be a slight factor that would account for that – so that the chance of winning two games would be slightly more than the square of winning one game, but not sure how one would add an intangible like that into the calculation. Cheers.
Clues like this make me think that if I’m up there and in the lead entering FJ, I should write down “$0” as soon as a business category is announced and figure it won’t be a softball. This is very much like the Radio Shack and Crayola clues — not something even the average trivia geek spends brain space on. This feels more like a $2000 than a FJ; clues like this make me question (humorously) if the show’s over budget again.
The clue had me wondering about Staples and Home Depot.
I chose Staples.
The clue had me wondering about Staples and Home Depot.
I chose Staples.
I went with Home Quarters… a miss is as good as a mile
Probably because I’ve been to Home Depot a few times recently, it was the only company with a stencil logo that I could think of. Given more time, I might have thought of some others but with limited time, it was the only one that came to mind and just happened to be correct.
I can only imagine the guff you have to put up with, Andy. Don’t people realize that if someone has a 60 percent chance of winning, that also means, they have a 40 percent chance of losing. Why would anyone send hate mail due to that (or, really for anything else, too)? SMH. It’s a game, folks, try to enjoy it.
Agree totally. I think a lot of the complainers are just not good at math because they don’t seem to realize that a 60% chance is not a lot greater than “a coin toss”. However, I assumed that those with the most ire had been betting on the results using Andy’s stats to determine their bets, but as I thought more about it, since Andy doesn’t post results until the show has aired somewhere, I’m not sure what good the stats would be for betting since they would already know who’d won.
I don’t know that I would have thought of Home Depot anyway as we prefer Lowe’s, but my big mistake was not taking “stencil” literally. [Perhaps that’s why they put it in quotes, but I thought the quotes meant not having been originally physically produced using a stencil and paint.] I just thought it meant only one color besides a white background, reproducible using a stencil (like is a way of painting patterns on a wall). I guessed Starbucks thinking green for “value” (knowing that doesn’t apply, but maybe originally did in the 70s). I guess thinking green could be for energy might have been a stretch, but I completely fail to grasp why orange means value. Target and K-Mart stores and logos go back to 1962 (and Staples to 1986), so at least I got the right decade with Starbucks 😉.