Today’s Final Jeopardy – Friday, August 29, 2025

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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 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)
August 31: S42 E111 (February 9, 2026)
(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

Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Famous Names) for Friday, August 29, 2025 (Season 41, Game 125):

As a young reporter in Appleton, Wisconsin, Edna Ferber interviewed this hometown celebrity originally from Hungary

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Shane Whitlock, a radiologist originally from Benton, Arkansas

Jaskaran Singh, a consultant from Plano, Texas

Roger Craig, an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

As we get closer to the end of Season 41’s encore presentations and closer to the start of Season 42 on September 8, today’s encore presentation is semifinal #1 of the 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament between Roger Craig, Jaskaran Singh, and Shane Whitlock.

In other Jeopardy! news, yesterday saw the official announcement that next-day streaming of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune will be coming to Bell Media’s Crave TV service. While I’m currently slightly disappointed at the fact that the United States gets five full seasons of library episodes compared to just 100 episodes in Canada, I might change my tune here if the Canadian library episodes are “100 Episodes Not In J! Archive”.

Correct response: Who is Harry Houdini?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

(The following write-up is original content and is copyright 2025 The Jeopardy! Fan. It may not be copied without linked attribution back to this page.)

In an interview reprinted at The Houdini File, Pulitzer-winning writer Edna Ferber interviewed one of her Appleton contemporaries in 1906 in front of the offices of the Appleton Crescent. That contemporary was world-renowned escape artist and magician Harry Houdini. How did they both end up in small-town Wisconsin? Houdini’s father was a rabbi and led the local congregation, while Ferber’s family moved there after experiencing anti-Semitism in Iowa.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, August 29, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Note: If you’d like to see the full statistics from this game, check out the original recap, from February 28, 2025.

Game Recap:

It seems to be, more often than not, that Roger Craig wins a game of Jeopardy! after netting the most overall of the three players on the Daily Doubles. However, it seems to be much rarer that this happens when Roger goes 0-for-0 on Daily Doubles. Unfortunately, both Jaskaran and Shane got Daily Doubles incorrect in Double Jeopardy (Jaskaran losing $4,000 and Shane $5,800), leading to Roger holding a $1,400 lead over Jaskaran heading into Final Jeopardy.

When all three players got Final Jeopardy correct, that sent Roger through to the finals.

Scores going into Final:

Roger $14,400
Jaskaran $12,600
Shane $3,200

Tonight’s results:

Shane $3,200 + $3,200 = $6,400 (Who is Houdini)
Jaskaran $12,600 + $12,598 = $25,198 (Who is Houdini)
Roger $14,400 + $10,801 = $25,201 (Who is Houdini) (Finalist)

Game Stats:

Roger $14,400 Coryat, 17 correct, 3 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Jaskaran $15,400 Coryat, 17 correct, 3 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Shane $9,000 Coryat, 14 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $38,800
Lach Trash: $7,200 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,000
Lead Changes: 5
Times Tied: 2

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