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[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Thursday, October 19, 2023 episode of Jeopardy!] The culmination of Jeopardy!‘s Champions Wildcard finals has arrived as players Josh Saak, Lucy Ricketts, and Sam Stapleton faced off once again on the Alex Trebek stage for a shot at $100,000 as well as a spot in the Tournament of Champions. As viewers will recall, the three players competed in Wednesday’s game, with Lucy pulling in $14,200, Josh raking in $25,200, and Sam scoring $15,200. In this new game, their goal was to increase their score by earning more in this second game for the largest combined total which would then earn them the $100,000 finals prize. When it came to book designer and freelance illustrator Lucy, traffic engineer Josh, and college consultant Sam, they all put their best foot forward in the competition, but there was one clear winner by the end of it all. By the time Final Jeopardy arrived, Sam’s score was ...
- 10/20/2023
- TV Insider
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[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Wednesday, October 18, 2023 episode of Jeopardy!] The first game in Jeopardy!’s first-ever two-game Champions Wildcard finals featured yesterday’s winner, Lucy Ricketts from Atlanta, Georgia, going against the returning Josh Saak, a traffic engineer from Boise, Idaho, and Sam Stapleton, a college consultant from Los Gatos, California. Although it takes plenty of skill to get to this point, audiences were still amazed by the stiff competition across the board, making for an entertaining tipping point. But it was during Final Jeopardy that decided who would walk away a game-one winner. The first Daily Double was revealed before the commercial break, which saw Lucy add $1,000 to her $400 score. However, by the time we made it to the first break, Sam was already in the lead with $4,600, followed by Lucy at $4,400 and Josh at $800. However, going into Double Jeopardy, Josh jumped to the lead with $5,000 and Lucy in last place with $4,400. During Double Jeopardy, ...
- 10/18/2023
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Jeopardy! viewers are still reeling over last Friday’s (October 13) episode, which saw former Season 38 champion Lawrence Long eliminated from the Champions Wildcard tournament in controversial fashion. Now show bosses are explaining the decision that halted filming and even had host Ken Jennings feeling bad for the unlucky loser. The highly debated moment came during Final Jeopardy! after Long gave an answer that was technically right but deemed incorrect because of an unnecessarily added extra word. The situation was so tense that producers said they “stopped down the taping” to research the answer further. Long went into Final Jeopardy! with $10,000, placing him second to former Season 37 champ Sam Stapleton at $18,400. Despite being behind, Long still had a chance at victory, depending on his answer and wager. The final clue, under the category “Royalty,” read: “Before his death in 2005, he said he was ‘probably the last head of state to be...
- 10/18/2023
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[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Wednesday, October 11, 2023 episode of Jeopardy!] The winner of Jeopardy!‘s October 11, 2023 episode came in hot and never stopped. Sam Stapleton, a college consultant from Los Gatos, California, came in swinging by getting four out of five clues in the Saturday Night Live category right, one of them being a Video Daily Double, at the top of the game. With that, he doubled his $2,600 to $5,200 (and made his Jeopardy dreams come true when saying “let’s make it a true Daily Double” to host Ken Jennings), and no one else had even gotten to choosing a clue yet. The rest of Sam’s playing stayed just as impressive. The college consultant was squaring off against Robert Won, a math professor from Washington, D.C., and Karla Fossett, a senior content administrator from Saco, Maine. Sam maintained his lead for the entire game, though his competitors did catch up at times. Going into the ...
- 10/11/2023
- TV Insider
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