Wednesday, January 6, 2016
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Glad to see someone actually got recognition for running a category tonight! Now how about those wagers?
Steve is looking good again tonight, but Sheila’s unfortunate miss on that Daily Double and Matt’s get on that penultimate clue each cost us a wager-to-tie scenario.
|
Steve Belding |
Sheila Churchill |
Matt Orlovick |
| 16,200 | 6,200 | 12,000 |
Tonight’s Final Jeopardy! category is:
| SITCOMS |
Not quite as simple as last night, but still simple enough.
First-order calculations
Sheila has to get it right to have a shot, so she might as well go all-in. Matt has a comfortable range…
| Steve |
Sheila |
Matt | |||
| 16,200 | 6,200 | 12,000 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 7,800 | 2,200* | 400 | 3,600 | ||
Second-order calculations
…but he can’t quite cover a zero out of Steve, so there is the potential for some mind games.
| Steve |
Sheila |
Matt | |||
| 16,200 | 6,200 | 12,000 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 7,800 | 2,200* | 400 | 3,600 | ||
| 600 | 4,800* | ||||
What actually happened
| Steve | Sheila | Matt | |||
| 16,200 | 6,200 | 12,000 | |||
| 7,801 | 6,200 | 5,000 | |||
| 24,001 | 0 | 17,000 | |||
| min | max | min | max | ||
| 7,801 | 8,399 | 6,200 | 401 | 3,599 | |
| 599 | 12,000 | ||||
I was hoping we’d get three greens after Sheila’s wager, but it appears Matt had second place on his mind with the 5,000. He does cover the “small” range out of Steve but leaves a lot of potential cash on the table. (Yes, I know it was moot.)
In any event, Steve has now won 2 games and $48,402 – and we’ll see if he can run a third category – and game – tomorrow!
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| SITCOMS |
| WHEN IT PREMIERED IN 1974, THIS TV SHOW USED A 1955 NO. 1 HIT AS ITS OPENING SONG |
[spoiler]What is Happy Days? (The theme was “Rock Around the Clock”)[/spoiler]
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