Current Champion
Nikolas Polsinelli, career statistics:
44 correct, 6 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
35.96% in first on buzzer (41/114)
4/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $10,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,500
To win:
3 games: 64.111%
4: 41.102%
5: 26.351%
6: 16.894%
7: 10.831%
Avg. streak: 3.786 games.
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Upcoming Encore Presentations
September 26-27: S42 E174 (May 7, 2026)
October 3-4: S42 E175 (May 8, 2026)
October 10-11: S42 E176 (May 11, 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 $1,598,403
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 to my (quasi?-)weekly mailbag column! As always, email mailbag@thejeopardyfan.com and I may potentially answer your question in the column! (And, next week, with the return of regular play impending, I’ll have the answer to a question that I’ve been sitting on for quite a long time!)
Going On Location?
Matt asks,
Jeopardy! has not taped elsewhere than the Alex Trebek Stage in nearly eight years. Indeed, it has only done so twice since The IBM Challenge — both to the familiar venue of DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. My belief is that the show’s moratorium on taking production “on the road” is permanent. What do you think? Should the show consider traveling again? Could it even do so?
Anything is possible if the show wants to. However, I do agree with you in thinking that the show’s moratorium on taking production of the actual show “on the road” is permanent.
One thing about the show’s last trip to DAR Constitution Hall in 2016: the 2016 Teen Tournament was delayed from Season 32 to Season 33. I believe that this was a deliberate choice in order to split the costs of the trip into two seasons for accounting purposes and expensing. There are certainly costs involved with taking production away from Culver City, and I don’t think the bean counters at Sony are going to be willing to pay the expenses required.
That being said, it’s not like the show’s personalities are staying in Culver City, either. The show is taking Inside Jeopardy! on the road instead, and I presume that this is a much more expense-neutral proposition for the show than attempting to tape a series of 10 or 20 episodes at DAR Constitution Hall. And I suspect that these sorts of events are the “road shows” that we’ll be seeing going forward.
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On Daily Double Hunting
Evan asks,
My apologies if this has been discussed in an earlier column—I’m a regular reader but not of every feature.
I haven’t made a study to determine if this is actually true or statistically significant, but anecdotally it feels like one of the effects of more players understanding that hunting DDs is an optimal strategy is more games where the game is decided roughly halfway through the DJ and the leading player could put their buzzer down with 10 or more clues remaining and guarantee a lock. I feel like this reduces the entertainment value of the game, especially this season because of all the tournaments making winning the game the only relevant stake.
So, two part question:
1) Do you think the show should do something to try keep the game in doubt longer?
2) If yes, what do you think they should try?
Some thoughts I had about the second question were changing the D distribution algorithm to make it more likely to appear on the lower value clues and reducing the spread of the clue values, e.g. in DJ the rows could be 800, 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600 which would maintain the total value of the board but make it less likely for early locks to occur. These ideas might reduce total scores as well because of the likelihood of smaller value clues being answered before the DDs are hit. I’m not sure how the show would feel about that – possibly save money on prize money but also might make the show less appealing to viewers and certain contestants.
Curious to hear your thoughts about my questions and suggestions.
Excellent question. I don’t think the show needs to change any of the dollar values—I do think that would be much too jarring for everyone and a change too far in terms of the tradition of the show.
However, there is one change that the show could make to negate Daily Double hunting as much as possible, and I think this would solve the concerns that you have. While I have mentioned this before, I do think it bears repeating.
That change: make all 30 clues on the board equally likely to contain a Daily Double. I would not put two Daily Doubles in the same category in Double Jeopardy, but I would give each of the five rows of the board a 20% chance of having a Daily Double. One major reason why everyone takes the bottom rows of the board first is because everyone knows those are the most likely spots to have the Daily Doubles. So, making every row equally likely to have a Daily Double likely would remove one of the major incentives for hunting. Contestants could take categories top to bottom again without it hurting their ability to find Daily Doubles. (And, it’s okay if the show takes an extra few seconds to explain categories if they’re worried about a contestant facing a top-row Daily Double in a “weird” category.)
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