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Andy’s Weekly Thoughts (7/6): Yes, The Show Is Changing—And It’s A Feature, Not A Bug
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 editorial is going to be focusing on just a single topic.
A number of Jeopardy! fans over the past week have been noticing that there’s been a slight shift recently in some of the question writing, with some users on Reddit certainly feeling that three of the four major clues in Thursday’s game hinged on wordplay.
As the title of this editorial says: Yes, the show is changing. And, yes, this is a deliberate change.
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Michael Davies has gone on record in the past (on Inside Jeopardy) to say that he would prefer more clues that rely less on rote memorization from J! Archive, and presumably more on synthesizing information (a skill that wordplay clues tend to test). Certainly, for me as a home viewer and fan myself, I enjoy these clues more—Lyndsey Hamen, the lovely pub quiz host from The Ship Pub & Kitchen here in St. John’s, Newfoundland, often refers to these questions as “critical thinking” questions, and she loves to include those sorts of rounds in her own game—and while it’s great to have the underlying knowledge, which can be learned from J! Archive, being able to apply what you’ve learned—using “critical thinking” as Lyndsey puts it—is a much more useful skill in the world. The show has definitely moved on from the era where one basically needed to know 25 authors, 15 composers, 20 scientists, 100 great historical figures, the key members of U.S government (past and present), and surface-level information about countries, TV, movies, sports, and music in order to be successful on the show.
I should also note that it’s probably a good idea to see the potential biases of some of the loudest commenters on this issue. Many diehard fans who have been trying to get on the show are more likely to have spent significant time trying to rote-memorize J! Archive and are probably watching their study time bear less fruit with this shift in content, and are potentially trying to push the canon back to a place where they think they have the best chance of winning multiple games on the show.
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I also mentioned in my recap on Friday that I’d have more to say about Friday’s Final Jeopardy as well, and although it didn’t end up affecting things on Friday, I think the skill of “how long is 30 seconds, and how to best manage that 30 seconds” is also a valid skill for the show to test; I was very worried that a player was going to leave themselves too little time to complete their response, but that would have been on the player, in my opinion, and not the show.
In closing, I absolutely believe that the show is best to move away from simply testing the rote memorization of facts from J! Archive, as I firmly believe that a better test of actual intelligence is by testing the ability to quickly synthesize things from what already knows.
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