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Today’s Final Jeopardy – Friday, August 29, 2025
Warning: This page contains spoilers for the August 29, 2025, game ofJeopardy!— please do not scroll down if you wish to avoid being spoiled. Please note that today’s game is an encore presentation of the game thatoriginally aired on February 28, 2025.
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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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
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”.
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Correct response: Who is Harry Houdini?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
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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:
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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