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 Andy’s Weekly Thoughts for June 8, 2024—I suspect that these will definitely stir some controvery within the world of J!.
A Thought On Pat Sajak’s Retirement
Pat Sajak’s final episodes of Wheel of Fortune aired this past week. (For the uninitiated, Jeopardy!‘s seasons last seven weeks longer than Wheel of Fortune‘s do, and have since 1986–87, when Jeopardy! went from a 39-week season to a 46-week season.) I don’t normally watch Wheel myself these days, and I certainly don’t agree with most of Pat Sajak’s political views in general, but I do want to say that I’m happy for Pat for one reason.
Pat Sajak gets to enjoy retirement—and that’s something Alex Trebek didn’t get to do. Alex basically was “working” until he died in 2020, and while I feel like deep down that would be Alex’s nature, I’m still a little bit disappointed that Pat gets to enjoy retirement while Alex didn’t.
Regardless, though, congratulations to Pat on his 42-and-a-half years as host; enjoy your time away from the camera.
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On Determining Potential Candidates To Return To The Show
Over the past week, some shocking news surfaced from the USA branch of the Online Quiz League: a player, long-considered one of quizzing’s best who also won two LearnedLeague championships and was also seen as one of the best players in OQL, was removed for “break[ing] the rules to secure an advantage for himself”.
While the initial motive for tweeting this news was to point out that James Holzhauer had been mocked in 2015 for electing to accuse this person of dishonest play, it also leads to another discussion point in a Jeopardy! context: You can’t 100% trust online play to determine who the top players are.
This removed player had shown up on several people’s “he should come back to Jeopardy!” list (as he lost to Alex Jacob in his lone appearance in 2015), especially after Victoria Groce and Brandon Blackwell performed as well as they did in the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament. Hearing of this player’s removal means that the show was right in only considering televised or proctored in-person performances in considering what unexpected alumni should return to the show—and that policy should continue going forward.
Whatever Happened To…
One of the major midweek pieces of news was the announcement that Drew Basile, who competed on Season 45 of Survivor, will be on the June 19 episode of Jeopardy. Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Season 45 air this past fall?
That’s one thing that I’m finding slightly concerning about some of the show’s more recent processes: In the not-so-recent past, contestants have had to wait for a year between game shows in order to be eligible to participate, and I am starting to feel that such matters are being ignored.
Basically, those rules were agreed to by the networks in order to remove the incentive to be a “professional” game show contestant in the aftermath of the scandals of the 1950s; in my opinion, these rules exist for a reason, and removing some of these safeguards might lead to unintended consequences.
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An Uncomfortable Truth
The evening of the Masters final, Yogesh Raut made some further comments regarding the state of Jeopardy! fans that I’ve been pressured to comment on, presumably because these fans are expecting me to somehow disagree with Yogesh’s characterizations.
Here’s the thing, and this may come as a shock to you: Yogesh’s characterization of the Jeopardy! fandom is one hundred percent correct. This fandom is littered with absolutely terrible people. Some of these are white supremacists who have deluded themselves into believing they are intelligent Americans simply by virtue of them being a longtime fan of the nation’s longest-running nationally televised quiz. Others are stalkers who send creepy letters to female contestants after their appearance. And those fans are so terrible that they are willing to send threats and harassment to those who do not 100% completely agree with them: Yogesh included—and myself included.
Interestingly enough, when I said pretty much the exact same thing about the show’s fandom in my editorial on May 11, one Reddit moderator took it so personally that he decided that it was appropriate to turn the mechanisms of a 100,000+-subscriber subreddit into a barrage of harassment against me—once again, proving my point and proving Yogesh’s point.
The thing about Yogesh is that he is absolutely willing to speak uncomfortable truths about both individuals and groups of people, regardless of whether or not those recipients agree with the characterizations. And his issue with the show in the interim between his original appearance and the Tournament of Champions was that the show publicly minimized the harassment that Yogesh faced. Thankfully, the show was sufficiently contrite regarding their own actions in the aftermath such that Yogesh felt comfortable participating in Masters.
If you’re a fan reading this who feels angry enough about this characterization that you’d want to actually send angry words someone’s way,—or worse, try to spur on 100,000 people to send angry words someone’s way—I strongly suggest you do some personal introspection here. Your view of yourself and the rest of the world’s view of you are significantly different. And treating Yogesh as if he’s Jeopardy!‘s version of Colin Kaepernick is improper and incorrect. I strongly urge you to get help before the headlines scream of a deranged fan harming someone.
In Closing
We’ve got a great champion on our hands—I hope her run continues!
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