Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Monday, October 31, 2016
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Happy Halloween! We’ll see how spooky our players’ wagers are tonight.
It’s a two-player game heading into Final.
|
Julia Lee (1x) |
Jon Frank |
Thea Lawton |
| 11,000 | -400 | 13,200 |
Even though it’s a heads-up competition, there are still some mind games to be had.
Combined wagers
| Julia |
Thea | ||||
| 11,000 | 13,200 | ||||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | ||
| 4,400 | 6,600 | 8,800 | |||
| 2,200 | 2,200 | 4,400 | |||
| 2,200 | |||||
What actually happened
| Julia | Thea | ||||
| 11,000 | 13,200 | ||||
| 6,601 | 11,200 | ||||
| 4,399 | 24,400 | ||||
| min | max | min | max | ||
| 4,401 | 6,599 | 8,801 | |||
| 2,200 | 2,201 | 4,401 | |||
| 2,199 | |||||
Julia mistakenly added a dollar rather than subtracted; had Thea missed and made the minimum wager, we would have had a tiebreaker. Alas…
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| TECHNOLOGY |
| IN 2005 STEVE JOBS USED “IT’S SORT OF LIKE TiVo FOR RADIO” TO DESCRIBE THIS NEW FORM |
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