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Andy’s Mailbag (12/24): Zero, Zero, Zero

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Current Champion

Will Goree, career statistics:
24 correct, 5 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
43.86% in first on buzzer (25/57)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $15,200)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,800

To win:
2 games: 73.975%
3: 54.723%
4: 40.481%
5: 29.946%
6: 22.153%
Avg. streak: 3.842 games.
(Click Here for Methodology)

Upcoming Encore Presentations

November 14-15: S42 E181 (May 18, 2026)
November 21-22: S42 E182 (May 19, 2026)
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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 $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603

Welcome back to my weekly Mailbag column! As always, if you have a question that you’d like me to answer, email me at mailbag@thejeopardyfan.com and I’ll answer it in the column!

I’d like to apologize for the shortness of this column; for those of you who aren’t following my personal social media, I had a painful fall last evening and am recuperating from that. Nothing is broken, just bruised, but I have been in pain for most of today and I’ve been unable to work to the fullest of my ability. I considered pushing back the entire column a week, but instead decided that I would publish the one letter that I had already composed a reply to. I very much appreciate your understanding.


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Triple Zero?

Leo asks,

With all the tournament play this season, I’ve been wondering what would happen if all 3 contestants finished Final with 0 dollars in a tournament game. I know in a regular game there would be 3 new contestants the next day, but in tournaments it is set up so that someone must advance…

You’re right! Someone must advance! In fact, after the only time a “someone must advance”-type game, Semifinal #2 of the 2013 Teen Tournament, ended in a triple-zero and the show used the less-than-satisfactory “wild card to the final” solution, it instituted a rule. Any game where that is declared that one player must advance (i.e. any tournament game) that ends with three players on $0 will be decided with a three-way tiebreaker clue.

It might feel counter-intuitive to the usual mantra of “Zero is never a winning score”, but that’s the best way for the show to operate in this case. The alternative would be “we have to sequester everyone in every round before the final, just in case there’s a triple-zero”, and that’s unworkable for numerous reasons—namely, the show has taken to taping quarterfinals in 27-player events over two successive days, and it is impossible to operate an overnight sequester.


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