Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Seuss? Vermont? “S” to “T”? That first round was about as perfect a board as I could ask for.

In actual game news, it happens quite frequently, it seems, that a player will go wild on her first day, really get my hopes up for a long run, then completely collapse on first defense. Stephanie fell victim to this tonight.

Ravi will try to finish Christina off with this category:

Similar situation to last night. I’ll continue with the visual calculations.

First-order calculations

Second doubles up

If Christina doubles her score, she’ll have 21,600.

To cover this all-in wager, Ravi will need to wager 2,600.

An incorrect response with that wager will leave Ravi with 16,400.

To get above his total, Christina must wager at least 5,600.

Were I Stephanie, I’d cap my wager at 799.

What actually happened

This was a great Final clue – one of the best this season. It doesn’t tell you exactly what’s important, but if you think about why the name and (to a lesser extent) the years are relevant, the correct response should jump out at you.

Congrats to Christina on becoming the first player to respond correctly to a Final this week. We’ll see if she can do it again tomorrow.

The Final Jeopardy! clue