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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Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Katie Pach, a marketing coordinator from Chicago, Illinois
Zach Johnson-Dunlop, a lighting technician originally from St. Charles, Illinois
Trey Hart, a grant writer from Petaluma, California (1-day total: $24,100)
Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
We are back to non-tournament Jeopardy! today, with our returning champion Trey Hart returning after a 10-week hiatus. He faces off against a pair of challengers from the Land of Lincoln in Katie Pach and Zach Johnson-Dunlop. Additionally, with the Olympics over, NBC stations return to their normal airtime, and “first airing” returns to being WBBJ in Jackson, TN at 11:00 AM Central (12:00 PM Eastern).
One thing that I think we’ll need to remember is that regular play players generally don’t quite play at the same level of skill as our top-level tournament players do. Thus, I would expect to see the sort of strategic misplays (i.e. Daily Double hunting that isn’t perfect and wagering that isn’t quite perfectly tied to the state of the game) that would stick out at a ToC or JIT level.
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Final Jeopardy! Category: 18th Century America
Final Jeopardy! Clue: South Carolina’s second-biggest cash crop in the mid-to-late 1700s was this inedible one named for a land far to the east
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Correct response: What is indigo?
More Information About Final Jeopardy!:
Indigo is a natural blue dye originally obtained from the leaves of plants of the Indigofera genus; it is most commonly used today in the production of denim cloth and denim jeans. Due to Indigofera being native to the Indian subcontinent, the dye gained its name of indigo. Eliza Lucas introduced the plant into South Carolina in the mid-to-late 18th century, turning the dye into one of the colony’s most important cash crops.
This feels like a good American history final to get our viewers back into the swing of regular play, but we shall see how it plays among viewers and players.
Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, February 23, 2026 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Makes; Words In 20th Century History; No Stone Unturned; From The Greek; Jump Through These Hoops; Boston Space)
Katie misssed the Daily Double 10 clues in; this allowed for things to be very close through 15 clues. At the interviews, your scores were Trey $1,800 Zach $1,600 Katie $1,600.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Trey 4 correct 2 incorrect
Katie 4 correct 1 incorrect
Zach 4 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Katie runs a Great British Baking Show fantasy league.
Zach is also a sumo wrestler.
Trey taught himself knitting.
A combined incorrect response count of 11 kept the scores down through 30 clues; Zach held a small lead at the second break. Trey went 3/5 in the stone category (even though the curling clue fell for a Triple Stumper, in spite of many members of the J! press also being curlers.)
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Zach 8 correct 4 incorrect
Trey 7 correct 4 incorrect
Katie 6 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Zach $2,000
Trey $1,400
Katie $600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Remakes; Lines From Classic Lit; Airports; The Religious Rite; Science; Tough Vocab)
Double Jeopardy saw Zach and Katie finding the Daily Doubles, but neither betting the maximum possible. However, Zach still led entering Final Jeopardy, courtesy Katie ringing in on a $400 Clue 30 instead of potentially letting Trey get into a tie position entering Final Jeopardy. On the second board, Trey went 3/5 in remakes.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Zach 15 correct 5 incorrect
Trey 17 correct 6 incorrect
Katie 14 correct 5 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 8 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Zach $10,600
Trey $10,200
Katie $4,000
Final Jeopardy nearly saw Katie change her response to the correct one, but she couldn’t get the new response finished in time. However, that ended up being immaterial, as Trey bet $0 in Final, keeping Katie locked out. When both Trey and Zach were incorrect, that made Trey a 2-day champion! He’ll go for victory #3 tomorrow.
Tonight’s results:
Katie $4,000 – $4,000 = $0 (What is tobacco in)
Trey $10,200 – $0 = $10,200 (What is cotton?) (2-day total: $34,300)
Zach $10,600 – $10,000 = $600 (What is Ceylon tea?)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) FROM THE GREEK $1000 (clue #10)
Katie 2200 -1200 (Trey 800 Zach 800)
2) THE RELIGIOUS RITE $800 (clue #13)
Zach 3600 +3000 (Trey 7800 Katie 600)
3) AIRPORTS $1600 (clue #20, $11200 left on board)
Katie 1000 +1000 (Trey 7400 Zach 7800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 79
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Trey 3 3 5 2
Zach 4 3 4
Katie 3 4 5*
DJ! Round:
Trey 3 4 5 2 1 2 5 1
Zach 3 4 4 2* 3 4 1†
Katie 3 3 5 3 4*
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Trey 3.00
Zach 3.20
Katie 3.75
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 8 (0.07 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Trey $10,200 Coryat, 17 correct, 6 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Zach $8,400 Coryat, 15 correct, 5 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Katie $5,800 Coryat, 14 correct, 5 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 5/7 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $24,400
Lach Trash: $14,400 (on 13 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $15,200
Lead Changes: 12
Times Tied: 4
Player Statistics:
Trey Hart, career statistics:
41 correct, 10 incorrect
7/8 on rebound attempts (on 13 rebound opportunities)
35.09% in first on buzzer (40/114)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,300
Zach Johnson-Dunlop, career statistics:
15 correct, 6 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,400
Katie Pach, career statistics:
14 correct, 6 incorrect
5/7 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$200)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,800
Trey Hart, to win:
3 games: 44.213%
4: 19.548%
5: 8.643%
6: 3.821%
7: 1.689%
Avg. streak: 2.793 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- It will certainly be interesting to see the “I want to see perfect strategy but I also want to see regular play” crowd triangulate the gameplay today.
- It’s a rarer judges’ ruling, but it is consistent with the past: if the judges think the host gave a correct response when a prompt was more appropriate, they will turn the response into a non-event instead of an incorrect one, only taking away the clue value and not making the response incorrect. It is also important to note that the suggestions on Reddit that “the judges should have stopped the game and figured out what the ruling should be. If they decided it should be a BMS, inform Ken and resume the game” are 100% incongruent with the rules regarding permitting responses against game stoppages, as stopping the game to determine that a response should be given a “be more specific” would ultimately give players too long in real time to give a response. Thus, the ultimate outcome has to be the same to be overall fairest to all competitors—namely, that the response from Zach becomes a non-event.
- Today’s J!6 clues can be found at the monthly archive.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Zach $10,600 Trey $10,200 Katie $4,000)
Trey: For the best chance of victory, defending against the biggest range of bets from Zach and Katie, you should bet between $801 and $1,399. (Actual bet: $0)
Zach: Standard cover bet is $9,801. If you hate the category and don’t want to cover, the most Trey can bet is $2,199 to keep Katie locked out. A bet of $1,801 would cover Trey’s entire small range from $0 to $2,200. (Actual bet: $10,000)
Katie: You should bet no more than $3,199 here to stay ahead of Zach if Zach bets to cover Trey. (Actual bet: $4,000)
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