“I think that it’s a really sound strategy. That early slip has also turned out to be an anomaly of the 35 Daily Doubles Holzhauer has played, he has missed only three. Holzhauer went on to recoup his losses by the first commercial break, and he won Wednesday’s match in a blowout. “He is certainly not risk-averse, but given his knowledge base and skills using the clicker, it's a relatively safe strategy for him.” “Even if he answers wrong, he isn't at a significant deficit,” says Benjamin Soltoff, a lecturer in computational social science at the University of Chicago, who has dug into the Jeopardy! archives for data-driven analysis about the effects of the Forrest Bounce on the game. He went for the Articles of Confederation instead of the Bill of Rights, dropping him back to zero. This time, though, he whiffed on the clue in Holidays and Observances. In the single Jeopardy! round, Holzhauer once again bet it all on a Daily Double. And his approach does have inherent risks, which you could see early on in the April 10 match-up. But in a lot of scenarios people tend to guess when they shouldn’t.”Ĭommand of Jeopardy! game theory doesn’t make Holzhauer unbeatable even 74-game-winner Ken Jennings lost eventually. “It’s not a hard and fast rule that you should never guess, I don’t think that’s true. “Everyone guesses once in a while, but I think that’s probably one of the biggest shifts that people need to make going from watching at home to being on the show,” says Cohen. Since Jeopardy! deducts money for incorrect responses, restraint is a virtue. When he buzzes in, he's right 97 percent of the time.
During his entire run, he has given only 18 incorrect answers, according to The Jeopardy Fan, a site that has kept close track of Holzhauer's stats. Holzhauer also excels at an underrated aspect of the game: a firm grasp of what he doesn’t know. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. That’s one way to play, sure, in the same way that a light jog is one way to complete an Olympic steeplechase course. You’ll often see players work their way through a single category, from easiest clue to hardest-and least to most valuable-before moving on to another column and repeating the process. The Jeopardy! board is arranged in a grid featuring 30 total clues across six categories. He did it with smarts-but also with a nearly flawless command of Jeopardy! game theory. Since then, Holzhauer has amassed over a million dollars in winnings, and has notched the seven-highest single-game tallies in Jeopardy! history. But until James Holzhauer put up his $110,914 total on April 9, no one had done it in a single game. Plenty of Jeopardy! champions have rung up six-figure payouts. This story was original published on April 10, and has been updated to reflect the latest totals.
With an average score of $75,825, Holzhauer is on pace to surpass all-time regular season Jeopardy! record holder Ken Jenning's tally of $2,520,700 within a few weeks.
On Tuesday, April 23, Jeopardy! savant James Holzhauer won his 14th game, pushing his total winnings $1,061,554.
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