I read on Reddit that James potentially could win 62 games by the end of Season 35. (I’m assuming that’s accurate)
The show hiatus will certainly create some drama as Season 36 approaches. The ratings will he incredible.
It’s still a long, long way away. We saw a couple days ago that he can be beat by a determined player.
Ken Jennings also spanned two seasons during his win streak.
Thanks–a trip down memory lane, for sure.
I gather the estate of Merv Griffin is still earning money on that theme, which like the show itself officially includes an exclamation point (Think!)
Yeah, and if anyone is wondering what note changes I’m talking about: if you think of the melody as "LAH DEE DAH lahdee LAH DEE DA, " the “lahdee” part is a repetition of the same note in the original melody. In the original, every time that figure comes around, the “lahdee” is the same note. In the 1997 piano version, the first time that figure is played, it’s the same note; the second time it’s played it’s two different notes (the second a half step up from the first, and the first is also a different note from the original melody.) Then when it changes chord, same thing happens: first time, same note; second time, upward melody line. Same with the other 1997 version. 2008 version, the initial “lahdee” is just a “LAH” (so no repeating notes), and the the second time the figure comes around, it’s the ascending “lahdee” pattern.
I’m not sure why it bugs me and sticks out so much, other than I guess I’m used to the original, more percussive version.
I think of it as more “LAH dee DAH dee LAH dee DAHHH”.
Well, then you’re missing a syllable in the classic version.It should be “LAH dee DAH dahdah LAH de DAHHH.” That “dahdah” is what I’m missing in some versions.
As already explained, what if you are all caught up and come to the thread to find people discussing the next episode that you won’t see aired for another 8 hours?
Unless you’re in the market that airs Jeopardy at 10am, you can be all caught up and still get spoiled.
Not that anyone cares about my opinion, but just not checking the thread until you’ve seen jeopardy air in your market that day seems like the easiest solution. There are occasionally people who wander into TV show threads and say “I’m on the west coast, why are people talking about the show 2 hours before it airs for me without spoiler boxes?!?” and they’re obviously laughed off. Now, it’s trickier with jeopardy because there’s not one air time, but if it’s a big deal to you not to be spoiled, it seems reasonable to just wait until you’ve seen that day’s episode to check the thread.
Also, as a practical matter, “James Holzhauer’s streak finally ends!” is going to pop up on your phone or your TV or some other way before you see Jeopardy anyway. It’s going to be really difficult to avoid having that spoiled.
That will really suck if that happens to me. I’m still bummed that in the first season of “Game of Thrones”
I (watching on Blu-ray) somehow started the season finale before seeing the penultimate episode, and therefore didn’t get to enjoy the shock of Ned’s surprise beheading as it happened.
:smack:
He did win today, with over $130, 000 dollars. It was win #28, and if he keeps winning at the same average rate per day, it will take him only four more days to beat Jennings total. And that will be without tournament earnings.
Did he purposely try not to beat his own record?
I have experienced the same thing when I used an Android platform. It’s really not worth the trouble to me unless I’m on my desktop.
ETA: Oh, sorry, have we stopped talking about that? My apologies; carry on.
If he had bet enough to beat his past record, it would have put him in danger of losing if he got it wrong. He bet almost as much as possible could while staying safe.
It’s hard because given the wide range of times that the show airs, the doesn’t give much room for discussion before the next one starts if you’re in a late market.
That’s right. The most he could have bet safely was $58,821 which would have given him a total of $130,843. His record is $131,127. Strictly speaking, Alex wasn’t wrong when he said that James had a chance at breaking the record but it would have been a dumb move on James’s part to go for it.
On today’s show,
[spoiler]I really liked both opponents, but especially Sara. She’s a pistol!
What was the first part of that James story with the oven mitts? I missed it.
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Does anyone know what the earnings/appearances record for a female contestant is?
Okay, I’m not going to spoiler this since it has literally nothing to do with the outcome of the game.
James tried to jump his wife’s car battery, screwed up the connections, saw smoke, and ran inside to get oven mitts to disconnect the cables. By the time he came back, the cables had melted the paint on his wife’s car.
He’s actually really lucky one or both of the batteries didn’t explode. Seriously folks, + goes to + and - goes to -*. How freaking hard is it?
*Or the car body, but on modern cars it can be a pain the ass to find an unpainted part that isn’t inside the engine compartment where there are lots of moving parts.
You can find a whole lot of information about past champions here.
According to the above link, a woman named Julia Collins won 20 games in 2014. That is the third-most all time, behind Jennings and James. She won $428,100, which is the fourth-highest total regular-season winnings.
I just read a cool fact. Prior to James, there have been only two confirmed regular play games where a player gave no incorrect answers. James has done it four out of the last ten games.