Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Last night my DVR decided it didn’t want to record Jeopardy! – which was particularly frustrating, because a certain post of mine had been getting a lot of attention.

Also, don’t worry, I’m not taking a selfie here.

That post was my list of the biggest one-day totals in Jeopardy! history, a list Andrew had a good chance of making this evening. Heading into Final, here were the scores:

Andrew ran four different categories, a feat I can’t recall seeing before. Two of those contained Daily Doubles.

And had Andrew wanted to maximize his take on that Antepenultimate Wager, he could have gone for as much as $24,199, since Lindsey could have nabbed that last 2,000 clue.

That would have put him at $63,599 heading into Final. And imagine if we took into account that $4,600 he left behind on that softball category CAPITAL CITY OVERLAPS…

What actually happened

I guess Andrew was content with a nice, round number, or he’s playing by Alex Jacob’s rules (which is a smart way to go, if you want to preserve your brain energy).

In any event, he has now won 3 games and broken the six-figure mark with $105,202.

The Final Jeopardy! clue