Warning: This page contains spoilers for the July 11-12, 2026, 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 March 17, 2025.
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Toys & Games) for July 11-12, 2026 (Season 41, Game 136):
Preparing for a course on descriptive geometry & researching the 5 Platonic solids led a professor to invent this
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Brett Aresco, a writer & content strategist from Fairhope, Alabama
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Clare Murray, an articling student from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Alex DeFrank, an inventory specialist from Brooklyn, New York (1-day total: $42,401)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Our encore presentation this week features Alex DeFrank go for win #2 against Clare Murray of Toronto and Brett Aresco of Alabama.
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Correct response: What is the Rubik’s Cube?
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Architecture professor Ernő Rubik was teaching a “descriptive geometry” course at the Budapest College of Applied Arts, where the course entailed having students solve three-dimensional problems with two-dimensional images. It was only envisioned as a puzzle once the cube got so jumbled that Rubik took a month to unjumble it. From there, it was patented in Hungary, and was discovered by the rest of the world at the 1980 Nuremberg Toy Fair, when a German marketer spotted it; the Rubik’s Cube then turned into a worldwide fad.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the July 11-12, 2026 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Game Recap:
Alex DeFrank had a significantly different game than his first one; instead of over $20,000 entering Final, he only had $9,800—thanks to a missed Daily Double and a half-dozen other incorrect responses. He also sat second thanks to Brett Aresco’s correct response on the first Daily Double.
That being said, Alex did pick up win number two courtesy his being the only player to successfully name the Rubik’s Cube in Final Jeopardy; Bree went for Tetris instead. Next week’s encore presentation will feature Alex going for win #3 against David DeBacker and Lily St. Laurent.
Scores going into Final:
Brett $9,800
Alex $8,800
Clare $2,800
Tonight’s results:
Clare $2,800 – $2,800 = $0 (What is Quirkle? Love you Bill & Ron! <3)
Alex $8,800 + $5,200 = $14,000 (What is Rubik’s Cube?) (2-day total: $56,401)
Brett $9,800 – $8,000 = $1,800 (What is Tetris?)
Game Stats:
Alex $13,800 Coryat, 26 correct, 7 incorrect, 52.63% in first on buzzer (30/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Brett $9,200 Coryat, 12 correct, 2 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Clare $6,200 Coryat, 9 correct, 3 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $29,200
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