Current Champion
Matthew Riggle, career statistics:
47 correct, 6 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
41.23% in first on buzzer (47/114)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,300
To win:
3 games: 68.027%
4: 46.277%
5: 31.481%
6: 21.415%
7: 14.568%
Avg. streak: 4.128 games.
(Next game: September 14)
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Upcoming Encore Presentations
August 12: S42 E98 (January 21, 2026)
August 13: S42 E99 (January 22, 2026)
August 14: S42 E100 (January 23, 2026)
August 15-16: S41 E141 (March 24, 2025)
August 17: S42 E101 (January 26, 2026)
August 18: S42 E105 (January 30, 2026)
August 19: S42 E102 (January 27, 2026)
August 20: S42 E103 (January 28, 2026)
August 21: S42 E104 (January 29, 2026)
August 22-23: S41 E142 (March 25, 2025)
August 24: S42 E106 (February 2, 2026)
August 25: S42 E107 (February 3, 2026)
August 26: S42 E108 (February 4, 2026)
August 27: S42 E109 (February 5, 2026)
August 28: S42 E110 (February 6, 2026)
August 29-30: S41 E143 (March 26, 2025)
(Source: Bell Fibe TV program guide)
All Time Winnings
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:
1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):
1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,098,403
7. Mattea Roach $897,983
8. Jamie Ding $885,605
9. David Madden $785,733
10. Victoria Groce $773,801
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Larissa Kelly $671,930
14. Matt Jackson $623,612
15. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
16. Andrew He $534,365
17. Scott Riccardi $533,000
18. Jerome Vered $499,102
19. Julia Collins $495,767
20. Austin Rogers $493,000
21. Ben Ingram $449,201
22. Paolo Pasco $448,717
23. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
24. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
25. Juveria Zaheer $441,000
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Welcome to another Saturday editorial column here at The Jeopardy! Fan.
Before I start today’s editorial, I want to say that these editorial columns are never intended to tell you what to think, but they are my opinion on the state of things in the fandom, written in order to provide extra information and potentially necessary context for understanding matters.
Monica Thieu’s Study Has Been Published
This week, Monica Thieu—a former College Championship winner who viewers saw as part of the All-Star Games in 2019—published the results of her study that can possibly explain how a person’s memory works. (And, let me tell you—her findings certainly explain my memory to a T!)
In the article, published in Psychonomic Bulletn & Review and titled Episodic-semantic linkage for $1000: New semantic knowledge is more strongly coupled with episodic memory in trivia experts, trivia experts were more likely to remember facts when they could also recall the context where they first learned them. (My own experience matches these findings: the number of times I have later recalled the answer to a trivia question because it came up as a crucial Final Jeopardy, or as an important question in another match I’ve been involved in—has been happening for nearly two decades for me.)
If You’re Not Watching These Games, I Think You’re Missing Out
Tuesday’s game, where both Long Nguyen and Kat Jepson cleared the $25,000 mark going into Final Jeopardy, made me think: viewers who are somehow upset at the increase in tournament play in Season 40 are missing out on some of the best and most exciting games ever if they’re choosing not to watch.
Certainly, I have been on the edge of my seat with a large number of these games. I can’t imagine missing them. If you’re a viewer who prefers games where the contestants struggle to break $10,000, I don’t know what to tell you. The games we’re seeing—especially one like Tuesday’s—are demonstrably better and more exciting.
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Why I Think Some People Are Feeling The Way They Are
There has to be some reason, though, why a subset of the fanbase feels the way it does about the current situation. And the next section of this editorial is going to be something that I think will be seen as controversial, because I believe it to be an uncomfortable truth, but I also think it needs to be said in order to get a full understanding of the situation.
Many of you who read this are not going to be a part of this group. However: there is a subset of Jeopardy! fans who watch this show religiously because they, over the last 30-40 years, have harbored unrealized dreams of being able to be a contestant on the show themselves and now live vicariously through people “like them” (quotes included deliberately) who do get the opportunity to go on. And these fans see the reduction of regular play as a reminder of their own unrealized dreams and are finding ways to lash out online because of this realization.
Even If There Is “Tourney Fatigue”, I Don’t Think It Ultimately Matters
So, yes, there is “tournament fatigue” amongst some people in the fanbase who gain enjoyment out of living vicariously through others. But, in 2024, I don’t think that matters whatsoever.
Fans can scream until they’re blue in the face and writers can put their think pieces out there in search of their clicks and ad dollars decrying the situation, but one thing is clear: Hollywood is in an era of cost-cutting and tax savings. The hullabaloo over Coyote vs. Acme is very prominent proof of that. More tournaments give the show more cost certainty and make the number crunchers happy. And, in the long run, if the number crunchers are happy, the chances are higher that we’re going to see more Jeopardy! overall. (After all, if Coyote vs. Acme, a film that most people who’ve seen it think is great, can get shelved on the whims of David Zaslav, what’s to say that the same can’t happen to Jeopardy! on the whim of a similar executive over at Sony?)
It should also be noted that in the announcement this week of Suzanne Prete’s promotion to President of Game Shows at Sony Pictures Television, that Sony has clearly looked at what has been going on with Jeopardy! as of late and is happy, as people involved are receiving promotions and not firings, with Ravi Ahuja even saying “our Game Show division has excelled beyond even our lofty expectations.”
As I’ve said many times in this column, the Jeopardy! of your parents’ era is long gone. With linear broadcast television jettisoning viewers year over year, and the only thing propping up broadcast television in the United States (the National Football League) pivoting slowly over to streaming itself, Jeopardy! needs to move away from its past in order to survive into the future. Yes, that means you’re going to see fewer new players every year. But, if it means the show gets to survive an extra 5-10 years because of these changes, you’re going to get to see more new players overall, compared to if the show had chosen to stay its previous course.
To the production staff over in Culver City: while listening to the fans is nice, making the people who cut your paychecks happy is just as important.
And to the fans: the amount of toxicity and anger you’re spouting online over this isn’t healthy. Step back. Enjoy life. And embrace change—even though I know that change is a difficult thing to grasp for many in this fanbase. (And it’s this paragraph here where I’m sure some of you will take to your keyboards and talk about how tone-deaf I am.)
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In Closing, Wise Words From Bill MacDonald Back In 2006
Being that we’re going into the ToC this week—remember the quote from Bill MacDonald and his own Tournament of Champions quarterfinal in 2006: “Even bad Jeopardy! is better than no Jeopardy!” (Even if you and I may disagree as to what constitutes “bad Jeopardy!.”)
(And, to the show’s social media team: That full interview—it’s from Episode #5000—would be a great interview to highlight as a YouTube short. Nudge nudge, wink wink.)
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