Weekend Jeopardy! Recap – April 11 & 12, 2026

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

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

Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Fictional Characters) for April 11-12, 2026 (Season 41, Game 72):

Dressed in white in her first scene, this play character says her name means “white woods”

(correct response beneath the contestants)

Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:

Jasmine Zhou, an ASIC engineer from Woodland, California

Jordan Carr Peterson, a professor from Knoxville, Tennessee

Ashley Chan, a publicist from Lewisville, Texas (3-day total: $46,500)

Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:

Our weekend encore presentations continue to feature the ToC players of Season 41, with this weekend’s game featuring Ashley Chan going for victory #4 against Jasmine Zhou and Jordan Carr Peterson.

One thing that I said in my initial preview of this game that ended up proving to be incredibly important was that not only was Ashley failing to make cover bets in Final Jeopardy, but Ken was also making a point of noting this in his game previews.

Correct response: Who is Blanche Dubois?

More information about Final Jeopardy:

(The following write-up is original content and is copyright 2026 The Jeopardy! Fan. It may not be copied without linked attribution back to this page.)

Scene 3 of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire describes Blanche Dubois thusly: “It’s a French name. It means woods and Blanche means white, so the two together mean white woods. Like an orchard in spring! You can remember it by that.” Definitely “incongruous to this setting” (as per the script) when she arrived at her sister Stella’s home.

I wish the show would ask more Final Jeopardy clues like this, to be honest: it was relatively straightforward and it would keep contestants making cover bets from the lead.

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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the April 11-12, 2026 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:

Note: If you’d like to see the full statistics from this game, check out the original recap, from December 17, 2024.

Game Recap:

In one of the more exciting game of Ashley’s run, all three players were in five figures entering Final Jeopardy, after Jasmine doubled up early and Ashley picked up $6,000 on the Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy.

Final Jeopardy turned out to be a triple-get—and that’s where things got very interesting. Ashley went for the very small bet of $20,900, which was enough to take victory after Jasmine only barely covered Jordan’s score and didn’t go all-in herself (despite Ken announcing Ashley’s propensity to do exactly what she did in the previous episode.)

Next week features Ashley going for win #5 against Sarah Rosenthal and Eric Weldon-Schilling.

Scores going into Final:

Ashley $18,800
Jasmine $15,600
Jordan $10,200

Tonight’s results:

Jordan $10,200 + $1,800 = $12,000 (Who is Blanche DuBois?)
Jasmine $15,600 + $5,000 = $20,600 (Who is Blanche Dubois?)
Ashley $18,800 + $2,100 = $20,900 (Who is Blanche DuBois?) (4-day total: $67,400)

Game Stats:

Ashley $15,200 Coryat, 21 correct, 2 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
Jasmine $14,200 Coryat, 16 correct, 1 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Jordan $10,200 Coryat, 13 correct, 1 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $39,600

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