ISTR hearing that they had taped some eps with no audiences. I was expecting to see them before any re-runs.
Yeah, they still have episodes left, they’re just trying to stretch it out to their normal break. I pretty sure we have a teacher’s tournament yet to air as well.
From *https://www.reddit.com/r/Jeopardy/comments/ge1brk/when_are_new_jeopardy_episodes_coming_back/*: (GOAT = Greatest Of All Time tournament)
Two weeks of GOAT: May 4-15
One week of no audience taped in March: May 18-22
Two weeks of teachers’ tourney: May 25 - June 5
One more week of no audience taped in March: June 8-12
Those are all the new episodes they have scheduled so far. I don’t think they’ve announced plans for beyond June 15, but undoubtedly there will be extra reruns beyond the traditional August hiatus because they haven’t been taping.
Sounds like if season 36 is finished, we will have lost 8 weeks, or 40 episodes. Two weeks of GOAT, and June 15-July 31.
Thanks, I guess I won’t be in any hurry to catch up on the episodes I have DVRed.
I wish they would show moire older episodes when they have reruns. I really enjoyed watching Ken’s episode from 2004.
I was surprised too by how it looked. I would have bet that the current look went back longer than it apparently has.
I had no idea the episode was coming, and as usual started watching a few minutes in. As soon as I saw there was actually a contestant standing to the *left *of Ken, I was like “oh, this poor guy…I hope he got some winnings in before he wandered right into this buzzsaw.” Interestingly, the game was kind of close! Can you imagine if another player had eked out the victory and Ken was stopped without a single win? I wonder how many other people have lost on their first try without anyone (including them) knowing they could have gone on a run if things had broken slightly differently?
And I thought he kind of got away with one with his answer of “Jones”… I would’ve thought the first name would have been required.
Alex hesitated before accepting it, apparently thinking the same thing, until he or the judges decided that the field female track and field was small enough that ‘Jones’ positively identified her (as Alex said when he accepted it).
Did Alex give a cryptic clue on who might replace him as host on today’s game?
Why did the woman in the lead bet anything at all? She would still have ended up tied for the lead.
I have given up trying to figure out betting strategies on some Jeopardy! players.
Sometimes it looks like they turn into Wheel of Fortune contestants when they make their FJ wagers.
The guy that won was pretty good minus a couple of Daily Double blunders, maybe she didn’t want to risk having to face him again in the next game? I dunno, I couldn’t think of anything else…
She wouldn’t face him again in the next game. Several years ago (I want to say circa 2010?) they changed the rules so that a tie results in a tie breaking tossup.
Are you referring to David Faber (of CNBC)? Do you mean when Alex said that he presented the clues in his category very well. IMHO that’s quite a stretch, but not impossible.
I hadn’t noticed that at the time, but you’re right. That was a real blunder on her part.
In my appearance in 1991, I had the lead going into FJ, and I won by betting in to beat the second-place player’s best outcome by one dollar. I was rather chagrined when one of my poker buddies pointed out that I could have won almost $1,000 more, with no downside, if I had instead bet to make sure I would remain above the third-place player’s bet bet if I got it wrong.
Ever since then, I have mentally derided players who make that same mistake.
If we’re now watching the “No Audience” epsiodes, they’re disguising the fact pretty well with clever use of “canned applause.”
Unlike nearly any earlier episodes I can remember, we haven’t seen a single glimpse of the studio audience during intro’s, outtro’s, or anytime in between. Also haven’t seen a contestant so much as glance toward the audience. And no audience laughter where there might have been before.
IF I’m correct, I don’t mind the ruse. Works well enough for me.
Yep this week and the week that will air after the teacher’s tournament were no audience. But I don’t ever really notice the audience in Jeopardy. It was more obvious on Wheel of Fortune since the always cut to the winner’s family in the crowd.
I guess it wasn’t a mistake after all, then. Or was it? Is it better to be guaranteed at least an even sudden-death confrontation, with the possibility of winning in “regulation” if your opponent gets FJ wrong? Or to guarantee the win if you get FJ right, while still winning if you and he both get it wrong?
Watching today’s episode, I wondered if contestants can in real time see their and their opponents’ scores? If so, there was what struck me as a clear error by two contestants, although it required thinking on their feet very quickly:
[spoiler]The last clue on the board was for $2,000. The leading player got it wrong, but he still had more than twice what either of the other two had. But either of them could bring their scores to more than 50% of his by ringing in and getting it right. Alex issued his customary invitation to both of them by name to give it a whirl, but they remained silent, ensuring it was a runaway.
I suppose if they had absolutely no idea about the correct response and wanted to have a better chance at coming in second (thus making $1,000 more than third place), maybe “clear error” is an overstatement. But especially for the player in last place at that point, it sure seems to me like you ought to ring in, take a couple seconds to furiously run through possibilities in your mind, and throw out a guess.
The other thing that pained me today, though not in the same category, was that none of the three contestants knew who Spalding Gray was. 
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Yes. Exactly what I was thinking.
Here are the possibility spaces for Megan betting nothing or something.
Megan bets $0, Ben bets $9,400
Ben Right Ben Wrong
Megan right Tie Megan wins
Megan wrong Tie Megan wins
Megan bets >$0 (and <$9,400), Ben bets $9,400
Ben Right Ben Wrong
Megan right Megan wins Megan wins
Megan wrong Megan loses Megan wins
By betting 0, the worst outcome for her is a tie, and the chance at the sudden death round. By betting more than 0, she has one additional chance to win, but also the chance of losing, which is what happened. I would have gone for the tie.
Surprisingly, the J!-Archive has not updated its strategy recommendationsto reflect the fact that ties now lead to a sudden-death question.
Yes, the scores are displayed for the contestants, off-camera to the left of the game board. You can sometimes see them looking there (to their left) to check the scores.