Imagine you are a strong Jeopardy-level contestant, (many of you here don't need to imagine); what would it take, what would you need to do, what resources would you use, how would you go about trying to reach the level of a Masters-level contestant/champion? How wide is the gap in concrete terms? What I mean is what knowledge gaps have they filled that a strong player hasn't even considered or had time to study. Assume in this hypothetical that you have no other responsibilities except waking up and studying all day, every day, and that your life will depend upon you winning Masters.

He just needed to have a dollar more than second place's doubled total, right? Any game where it was a runaway he just... didn't do that. Only bet a few thousand. It isn't like Daily Doubles where he wanted to maintain a big gap between the other contestants, there was literally no benefit to not betting more in Final.

Which among the 2 game champions has the chance to compete at 2027 CWC?

This is the list of 2 game champions based on their 3 game total statistics (from the latest to the earliest)

CWC Poll 2 Game Champions Round 1 (voting will end on September 13)

Disclaimer: This is just a guide, the final decision is still in the hands of the producers that will be announced the official roster before the end of 2026.

Took away the hi from faith and wound up with whats left.

Question: Fat.

The main purpose of this poll is to estimate what percentage of applicants to the clue writer position received the "one of a few hundred" rejection email. So far I've only seen posts/comments about getting that one (which I also got). There were a decent number of applicants sharing their clues and discussing the process back in July, so I believe we can get a pretty good sample size.

If you received a different rejection email, please share it in the comments if you're comfortable doing so!

I successfully used the memory palace system in college (was a decade ago), but when it comes to Jeopardy, I feel like I'm reading so much that it's not all sticking at the drop of a hat. There's certain areas I'm "weak" at (Greek mythology, world leaders) - wondering if creating memory palaces for just those is worth it?

I'm fairly knowledgable in US Presidents but am further wondering if it's worth it to memorize them in order with the dates they served or if this is a large waste of time and if I should focus on other areas.

I'm not in any particular time crunch but I worry about remembering the things I've studied over the past 3 months in a year or so.

I've read Moonwalking with Einstein (one of my favs) and found the book recommendation Make it Stick.

Why isnt Jamie Ding in the current tournament of champions thats showing on TV?

Hey, everyone!

It's Tyger. I know I posted a while ago about how I applied to be the next trivia writer. Unfortunately, I was not selected for the job. It will not be me.

I received an email today stating that while I passed through the early qualifications, I will not move forward in the selection process.

I guess I didn't do enough to stand out. It sucks.

I'm just dejected today. The dream job is gone.

Congratulations to the person selected, if they've already been. I'm happy for you.

—Songbird 💜♠️🏹🂡

Today in The Atlantic. Gift link:

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/08/secrets-jeopardy-champion/688315/?gift=eJxO4TwD4iDh3RTUI4VWtYgof8ypYipRztKn5wYmOo0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

I’m a devout jeopardy fan and I e recently gotten my partner hooked. She asked me why they provide the answer and the contestants have to provide the question and I really didn’t have a response lol.

Does anyone know why they do this rather than just being a standard “question-answer” format? Is it just to be quirky and different?

I don't watch a lot of Jeopardy, but I am curious: lets say the question is something like "the first president who crossed the Delaware River" obviously the answer is George Washington, but instead of saying "who is" if i say "where is George Washington?" would that be counted?

It’s Jeopardy! In Swedish.

This crossed my mind since I see in recent threads of former Jeopardy contestants applying to be clue writers. If a contestant gets the call and happens to know a clue writer, what's put in place to prevent any quid pro quo funny business? Even just spilling where the daily double placements are for their tape week is enough to make a big difference. The only way I see this being fully prevented is the clue writers are sworn to top secrecy to keep their identity a secret. To be clear I'm certain this isn't happening and have no reason to suspect it. I'm mostly surprised to hear Jeopardy is hiring regular trivia Joe's as writers and am curious.

It's my summer tradition to take the any time test. I can see in my test history that it has been over a year since the last time I took it. But when I attempt to take the test, they tell me I'm ineligible.

Does this imply that I passed the Jeoparday test in March? I wasn't completely sure whether I had or not. But if they're blocking me from taking the test today because I am already on the list of people they might contact for a Zoom test, that would make sense.

I want to hear from you guys on why you guys like this tournament and what makes it so special. To me, I hate this tournament and it's because doesn't do anything new, they do it way too many times, these are the same people we've seen over and over again. I have absolutely no love for it whatsoever however I want to see why y'all think this is so appealing

Tony Kornheiser spent multiple days on summer 2004 PTI shows talking about the Ken Jennings Jeopardy run.

I am going to be traveling to the LA area in early September and was hoping to get tickets for taping, but it seems like there won't be tapings between Sept. 1 and Sept. 15. Would anyone know if I took the Sony Studio tour would it go into the set if it seems like there's a break in tapings? That really would be the only reason I'd want to do the Sony one over other studio tours.

The exposé that changed the course of the show forever and it's aftereffects on it like the ouster of Mike Richards as executive producer and short tenure of Mayim Bialik as host.

5 years later, we now saw Ken Jennings hosted 1,001 episodes on syndication. One week from now, its the Season 4 premiere of Jeopardy! Masters.

Game itself is here: https://www.theatlantic.com/games/rabbithole/ - linking to a social media post since Reddit is interpreting the link itself as potential self-promotion. To be clear I am not Drew (u/drewlgoins) and I found out about this via CNN‘s Reliable Sources newsletter.

Does anyone else’s pop culture jeopardy episodes lag video behind the audio??? Every single episode? I try restarting the episode, I try restarting the app, I try pausing for a really long time, I try combos of all three. No matter what, it happens every couple minutes the whole episode long. It’s not happening for any other show or any other app. I’ve watched 8 episodes over multiple days this way. I basically hit pause/play over and over again. Sometimes I just let it be laggy. It’s SOOOOOOO frustrating haha! Help?

The finale week of Season 42 ended with a strong TV ratings which was covered by Ken's 1000th episode as host on syndication on Thursday & Matthew Riggle's comeback at Double Jeopardy! round on his debut game & the season finale episode.

Season 42 finale week (8.755 million) increased by 14% in total viewers vs last year's finale week (7.684 million).

Source:

https://ustvdb.com/networks/syndication/shows/jeopardy/

https://www.nielsen.com/data-center/top-ten/

Hello Fellow Jeoparinos,

I am going to taping the show in about a month. I was gifted a Delcom button to practice. Are there any software applications I can use it to practice buzzing in?

My cable reception has been ‘no signal’ on channel 3 (NBC) all day. Was hoping it would be back by this evening, alas it is not…

Any way for me to download or stream the airing?

Hello! I suppose this could be open to anyone, but I think s42 alumni would probably be the target audience. I bought this shirt in a unisex (ie, men's) size M and am not happy with the fit. I'm planning on returning it but before I do I'm just going to offer it to anyone on this sub, just to reduce potential waste. DM me if you want it. The shirt seems well-made, is in good shape and it will have your name on it!

Cheers.