Warning: This page contains spoilers for the August 30-31, 2025, game of Jeopardy! — please do not scroll down if you wish to avoid being spoiled. Please note that today’s game is an encore presentation of the game that originally aired on July 16, 2024.
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 1960s People) for August 30-31, 2025 (Season 40, Game 222):
He said that California prison psych tests he took were ones he had designed, so he made himself look docile & unlikely to escape; then he did
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Erika Stromerson, an entry writer & grad student from Woodinville, Washington
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Jay Fisher, a government relations manager from Lisle, Illinois
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Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, California (9-day total: $215,390)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
This weekend’s encore presentation of Jeopardy! features Isaac Hirsch attempting to become, at the time, the 18th superchampion in Jeopardy! history; 17 of the previous 21 9-time champions up to that point had won their tenth. However, things did not quite work out the way Isaac wanted them to, due to a mistake he made in between clues #60 and 61.
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Correct response: Who is Timothy Leary?
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Timothy Leary, a famous counterculture figure of the 1960s most famous today for the saying “Turn on, tune in, drop out” was a Harvard clinical psychologist who became imprisoned in 1970 due to his fondness for many drugs considered at that time to be illegal. However, Leary had designed the behavioral tests used to determine his propensity to escape; knowing this, he faked his answers in order to send him to the lowest-security prison available, making his escape later that year significantly easier for him.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the August 30-31, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Game Recap:
Despite a $23,400 Coryat score and 25 correct responses, things did not go particularly well for Isaac on the game’s four wagering clues. He lost $3,000 on the first one and $5,000 on the second; when he found DD3 immediately after DD2, he was sufficiently afraid to make what J! Archive calls a “fearful wager” (less than the clue’s value). The combination of all three of those happenings meant that Jay had a $900 lead going into Final Jeopardy.
Final Jeopardy turned out to be a Triple Stumper, which ordinarily would have been advantage Isaac. However, Isaac made his calculations to try to keep Erika locked out and not thinking about what Jay would do on a cover bet, even holding up his wagering scratch paper during the closing to explain what happened. That meant that Isaac did not win his tenth game and Jay is your new champion! My program guide tells me that Jay’s title defense rounds out the Season 41 weekend encore presentations next weekend.
Scores going into Final:
Jay $16,200
Isaac $15,300
Erika $600
Tonight’s results:
Erika $600 – $0 = $600 (Who is ???)
Isaac $15,300 – $14,000 = $1,300 (Who is Manson?)
Jay $16,200 – $14,401 = $1,799 (Who is Manson?) (1-day total: $1,799)
Game Stats:
Jay $16,200 Coryat, 19 correct, 0 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 5/5 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
Isaac $23,400 Coryat, 25 correct, 6 incorrect, 42.11% in first on buzzer (24/57), 2/4 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Erika $600 Coryat, 9 correct, 8 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $40,200
Lach Trash: $5,200 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,600
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 1
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