# Anyone notice that a lot of Jeopardy! episodes this season are ending with unread clues

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**Created:** [October 8, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-notice-that-a-lot-of-jeopardy-episodes-this-season-are-ending-with-unread-clues/670641 "2013-10-08T01:58:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-notice-that-a-lot-of-jeopardy-episodes-this-season-are-ending-with-unread-clues/670641/21 "2013-10-29T01:00:54Z")

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Heck, even when I used to watch the Trebek Jeopardy, it was rare to clear the whole board.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-notice-that-a-lot-of-jeopardy-episodes-this-season-are-ending-with-unread-clues/670641/22 "2013-10-29T02:44:49Z")

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I have seen some old reruns of Fleming’s Jeopardy shows.

Fleming’s personal copy of the clues would have more words than the visual clues.

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-notice-that-a-lot-of-jeopardy-episodes-this-season-are-ending-with-unread-clues/670641/23 "2013-10-30T22:27:39Z")

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> [@PSXer](#):
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> I guess I’ve been spoiled by years of good times
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> why do adults always want kids to suffer just because they did. Why can’t you just let us enjoy the good things we have

😃

There, there. Perhaps this will pass and they’ll get back to running the board. It’s happened before.

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-notice-that-a-lot-of-jeopardy-episodes-this-season-are-ending-with-unread-clues/670641/24 "2013-10-31T18:32:05Z")

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Off Topic but… that boy who won Tuesday, lost last night:  
my wife and I were _cringing_ at his non-stop mugging. He seemed to be channeling Dan Ackroyd’s old SNL Jimmy Carter, with a dose of Bambi thrown in for added ickyness.

Thanks. I feel better now.

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**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-notice-that-a-lot-of-jeopardy-episodes-this-season-are-ending-with-unread-clues/670641/25 "2013-10-31T21:16:58Z")

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> [@TreacherousCretin](#):
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> Off Topic but… that boy who won Tuesday, lost last night:  
> my wife and I were _cringing_ at his non-stop mugging. He seemed to be channeling Dan Ackroyd’s old SNL Jimmy Carter, with a dose of Bambi thrown in for added ickyness.
> 
> Thanks. I feel better now.

I kept referring to him as “Twitchy McSportscaster.”

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**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-notice-that-a-lot-of-jeopardy-episodes-this-season-are-ending-with-unread-clues/670641/26 "2013-10-31T21:31:07Z")

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Isn’t there a website out there with a database of all the questions asked for all the shows going back a long while? You could probably analyze that and get a trend line to see if it really is more common recently.

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