Will that guy on Jeopardy ever lose?

rip Matt, would’ve prob taken him against the field but he seemed somewhat unengaged especially as the game wore on and he didn’t grab his usual advantage

FYI, Jeopardy uploaded the entire exhibition game to YouTube here. Ken's amusing mess-up is at 9:39.

Today game (Mattea's semifinal game) was wild - no spoilers here, but one moment in particular had big gasps from the audience.

All three players in the Amodio semi had a good game. The middle guy had a good game considering he did not get any of the daily doubles.

After the professor tournament, I thought that guy might do pretty well as him and the guy who was runner up in that tournament both seemed to know a boodle of obscure stuff.

I still don't get Matt going 'zero' on final jeopardy with a geography question as that seemed to be one subject he would tear through in his winning reign.

Today's is not on here until 730, I have not seen it yet.

didnt realize the finals format is a race to 3, that is cool

amy the GOAT

Legit deserving winner

So happy she won. Does this mean there'll be a game in the future with her, James Holzhauer, and Brad Rutter? Because I wanna see her win that one, too.

what a badass

The Little Mermaid? Jeez, and just when I was starting to root for you.

So, Ray...

His movements are a little distracting -- he looks like he REALLY has to pee -- but I like him.

Ray’s great, but my husband says that podium dance makes him sea sick.

fwiw I read he has a back injury and the swaying keeps the pain at bay

Love this new guy hope he makes a run

having trouble finding a link to today's episode on youtube

Love this guy

It would be extremely easy to replace me with an AI because roughly 60% of the things I say come from the Poochie episode of Simpsons.

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) January 21, 2023

I don’t watch Jeopardy, but I am extremely invested in the guy who won three times but was apparently bad on the buzzer, then began a multi-week Facebook meltdown about how Jeopardy is not the REAL quizzing world and compared himself to Muhammad Ali. https://t.co/LmFd2fpUXL pic.twitter.com/LFN8QEajre

— Megan Greenwell (@megreenwell) January 23, 2023

i would like to know more about this

hahaha i read that tweet and knew exactly who it was about. dude was as arrogant and unlikable a jeopardy champ as i've ever seen.

his rants are amazing. he calls jeopardy "fundamentally incompatible with true social justice"

hey he's not totally wrong. for a competition that throws around terms like "greatest of all time" it's a fundamentally unfair format. what if NFL quarterbacks had to retire after a loss? if NBA players were forced to score 20 every game? if blowing a save blew your career??? then what

hmmm, i don't know, maybe he should try being an olympic gymnast or skier, where you spend your entire life training for a single event, at which you get one walk down the balance beam or one run down the hill (two if you're lucky), and if you fuck it up, that's it, probably forever.

Absolutely nutball ending to last night’s Celebrity Jeopardy. Patton had a solid streak towards the beginning, but Brendan soon mastered the buzzer. You could tell Patton was getting frustrated — when he did manage to buzz in (and he was always correct), he sounded more and more tense, especially after Cera hit a big Daily Double. I knew Patton would ultimately triumph, but I didn’t think it would be that dramatic.

Jeopardy! Has Finally Perfected the Post-Trebek Formula

Literal LOL’d the Connery/Moore comparison. They ain’t wrong.

British Jeopardy is coming: https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/jeopardy-new-host-stephen-fry.html

The story behind a season 2 winner whose episodes got pulled: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/5/2/23705821/jeopardy-lost-tapes-barbara-lowe-mystery-champion

Anyone watching Jeopardy! Masters? I don't like that they reveal the locations of the Daily Doubles to the audience, but I kind of like the whole rankings and leaderboard setup. And of course it's extremely entertaining.

I kinda like the DD reveal, it added some anticipation when one of the players was running down a category & everyone missed the second to last answer so they decided to try a new category, but we knew the last answer was the DD just hanging out there waiting for them to come back to it.

The best part so far is James trying so hard to be evil and Ken making fun of him for it

dat that was an interesting article! sounded v petty on the Jeopardy producers part

Is it just me, or do the questions on Masters seem more difficult than on regular Jeopardy? I find myself muttering "those prizes are rightfully mine" much less when watching Masters.

I can't imagine "Who is Steve Nieve?" ever being a question on regular Jeopardy.

The questions this week have run the gamut, but I imagine everyone who watches Jeopardy has categories they're much better at than others

seen a few stories today about mayim, who was hosting the final weeks of regular jeopardy this season, walking out on the final week of shoots in solidarity with striking writers, and ken stepping in to shoot the episodes in her place. if true, that sucks. jeopardy's a union show. i loathe her as a host, but full-on respect to her for this.

So how about James's Final Jeopardy zinger last night? All in good fun, of course, but I feel like Ken was kinda stumped on how to respond.

Ben! Tom the Deadhead & Lydia-Claire on now. Good old regular pro-union Jeopardy innnit?

So how about James's Final Jeopardy zinger last night? All in good fun, of course, but I feel like Ken was kinda stumped on how to respond.

not really enjoying how hard they're trying to turn every player into a personality in this tournament. i think part of jeopardy's charm is how the gameplay is so rigid and formulaic that only tiny bits of personality are allowed to slip through, and only in certain moments. there's a built-in mystery as to who these people are. you're always left wanting more.

i liked every one of these six players more when i knew them less.

also i find james' zingers not all that zingy. a little cringe even.

Not gonna spoil it, but tonight’s Jeopardy Masters outcome was as surprising as it was moving.

Ken is a scab

I still lament that LeVar Burton didn't work out as host

Apparently the clues were all written before the strike, and there were only a few episodes left to film. I can see why it's maybe not a good look to go forward with production, but does that count as crossing the picket line? (I genuinely don't know.)

yeah it does

ugh this clue on celeb jeop tonite:

"when she performed 'crazy for you' in the high school wrestling film 'vision quest,' this pop star was virtually unknown"

i assume these episodes were written pre-strike, but maybe the jeopardy fact checking dept already had a foot out the door? (she had the #1 album in the u.s. the week the movie was released, had recently scored her first #1 single, and was well on her way to superstardom.)

Julia Markham Cameron returns today for the Champs Wildcard Tourney for those who celebrate.

For a second I read that as Julia Margaret Cameron.

That would be an achievement.

Yet another feather in the crown of AI.

Trying to remember the James Blish story about that in all the anthologies.

I did remember it correctly, just checked, “Common Time.”

Nope, it’s a different one, with art in the title, “A Work of Art,” maybe.