PM, I presume?
It seemed like that to me, too, but I think all that was really happening was that Nate was almost as quick on the buzzer as James. It was more like a normal game in terms of distribution of first buzzes, which we’re not used to with James.
Does anyone know how to stream this broadcast?
Of course. It’s easy. But that is potentially vaguely illegal so I can’t tell you here. Check the Jeopardy! subreddit.
You presume correctly. And to further clarify, my SIL’s time is whatever time zone Vegas is on (I think 3 hours behind Eastern, but I’m not sure).
In today’s episode, for about half of Double Jeopardy, there was a strong chance that both challengers were going to finish in negative territory and be eliminated. I was kind of hoping for that to happen.
As for the discussion of airing time in different markets, in Chicago, the show starts at 3:30, while Wheel of Fortune airs in the evening. I always thought it should be the opposite. Just guessing, I’d say that the average Jeopardy viewer is more likely to be employed than the average Wheel of Fortune viewer. Therefore, Jeopardy should air in the evening when most employed people arrive home from work.
On the other hand, with DVRs it doesn’t matter. (and Jeopardy is unwatchable without being able to fast forward through commercials. The last 10 minutes is about 7.5 minutes of ads.
Here on the west coast it airs at 7pm. I DVR it and usually watch it later in the evening.
actually, USA used to run game shows all afternoon back in the day and ive seen the 2 part press luck episodes where the guy memorized the patterns …funny thing is when the show originally aired people were pointing out it wouldnt be hard to memorize them i wouldnt of been suprised if people all ready had but not to the extreme…
See guys problem was he got caught up in the rush of winning and forgot one of the rules of ethical cheating… lose a few randomly i mean he could of lost or passed when he knew there were gonna be a few wipeout squares if hed just figured out how to steer the others to them …
Card counters get caught up in winning the same way tho
I saw that one, too. In the Chicago market, that ran in the late morning. I was surprised to find that it only ran that one time, until it was shown again in a documentary in 2003 (and then a few times afterwards.) I would have been almost 9 at the time, but I was addicted to that show as a kid. I always just assumed I saw it on a rerun years later, given I was only a month shy of 9 when I saw it, but apparently not.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. He wasn’t “caught.” He kept the money.
Yeah, Michael Larson was his name. The episode spanned two days, and in the beginning, he did screw up his timing a few times. But then he just hit bonus tile after bonus tile after bonus tile until he started losing his nerve a little bit. They brought him back the next day (ETA, or rather, they split the episode up to two days–bad phrasing on my part)–and he did end up winning (looking it up, it was $110,237, the equivalent of about $270K today.) Typically, though, winners would come back for the next episode. He was not allowed to. And then CBS would not allow that episode to be shown for 19 years.
And if that theoretical possibility had actually happened, what would they do?
Just say to hell with FJ, let him play but don’t award any money, let him play and bet whatever he wants? And how much would he bet in that situation - $1 or everything but $1 ?
Just an FYI… if you quote a spoiler box it is no longer hidden. I knew this so made sure to not read it but just to make everyone aware. You can easily quote the post and delete the part that starts with [Spoiler].
It’s happened before. YouTube search for “one person final Jeopardy.” Game goes on as normal.
I’m surprised GEICO or some other company hasn’t come up with an ad featuring him. He’d probably get a good pay check from this while he waits for his Jeopardy money.
Laura from yesterday’s episode answered some questions in the reddit Thursday recap thread.
Interesting insider info.
The contestants are aware they have to play recklessly to beat James.
If I’m understanding your post correctly, I think this depends on which ‘theme’ or ‘style’ you are using to view the SDMB. The quoted spoilers in the above posts are still hidden for me.
Regarding the Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy of today’s game:
They seemed pretty difficult to me, and I wonder if James would have known them. The first was the one with the bible quote about shaping spears into ‘pruning hooks’. And the second, about the Wagner festival in the Bavarian town (Bayreuth) also seems obscure enough he might not have known it.
Regarding the game overall:
I’m probably reading too much into it, but there was a stretch there in Double Jeopardy when it felt like maybe James was holding back, trying to let the other contestants get back into the game. They both had negative points, and there were a few questions I thought James would pounce on but didn’t. Then he did eventually get back into it and started nailing questions like normal.
I have wondered if they’ll make the daily doubles and FJ questions much harder.
That’s one way to slow down James. So he doesn’t bank huge dollars.
They did seem harder today.