![]() (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)ĭuring a “perfect game,” there would also be only one player left in the Final Jeopardy! round, as the show’s rules prohibit players with $0 or less from competing. The set of “Jeopardy!” is pictured during the Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational Tournament in April 2010. The winning contestant would also need the superhuman ability to correctly determine which of the six categories contained those Daily Doubles. (The location of the Daily Doubles is not randomized, but rather set by the show’s writers, a representative for Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed). This scenario, while astronomically unlikely, is made even more unlikely considering that the quiz show’s production team would have to voluntarily hide the Daily Double clues under the lowest dollar amounts. To earn that amount - $566,400, to be exact - a contestant would have to play a “perfect game,” which means correctly responding to every single clue, betting the maximum available amount on Daily Doubles, and then risking it all during the Final Jeopardy! round.īut there are other variables that would make the $566,400 prize a near impossibility, including one that the contestant can’t control - no matter how smart, calculating, or quick on the buzzer. But even a skilled player like himself would need an absurd amount of luck (and more than a touch of hubris) to win the maximum theoretical prize amount, which totals more than a half-million dollars. Holzhauer was able to maximize his winnings by placing large wagers during Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy. In fact, Holtzhauer holds the top 12 spots for single-day winnings, all earned during his 32-game streak during the spring of 2019, according to the official “Jeopardy!” leaderboard. At least not based on the current structure of the quiz show’s gameplay.Īs it stands, the largest payday ever awarded during a single game of “Jeopardy!” (outside of a tournament) is $131,127, a hefty prize amount won by James Holzhauer in April 2019. ![]() It’s unlikely that anyone would ever come significantly closer, though. They’re all record-setting “Jeopardy!’ champions, but none have even come close to earning the maximum potential dollar amount a “Jeopardy!” contestant can theoretically win in a single game. He’s a GOAT, even if he doesn’t have the official title.(NEXSTAR) - Ken Jennings. That said, he’s going to walk away from this tournament with just shy of $5 million earned overall from the game show - at a minimum. But based on his performance compared with Holzhauer and Jennings, it looks like his undefeated streak is going to end. Rutter’s past game losses didn’t prevent him from winning tournaments, and neither do his defeats in the Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time tournament. That ensured he’d finish third in yet another game. Then he got multiple clues wrong and was suddenly at -5,200, and he couldn’t dig himself out of the hole fast enough to have points to wager in Final Jeopardy. He went all in with his 3,800 points and gave an incorrect response about DNA. In the second game, Rutter got a Daily Double off the first clue of Double Jeopardy. He hung around with Holzhauer and Jennings for a little, and when he fell behind, it still wasn’t by a totally insurmountable amount. They’ve both capitalized on Daily Doubles - much like Holzhauer did during his 32-game win streak in 2019 - while Rutter’s deficits have been largely tied to doing the opposite.įor a while during Wednesday’s match, Rutter was playing better compared with the previous episode. So when he finished third in the opening game of the first Jeopardy! GOAT match Tuesday - and in the second game that day, plus both games Wednesday - it was not the first time he’s lost a game within a tournament.Īnd although it seems like he’s solidifying his position as the third-best Jeopardy! player ever, he could still win this tournament.Īhead of the third GOAT tournament episode Thursday, Jennings and Holzhauer each have one match win. Then in the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions, Rutter tied for second in the Round 4, Game 3 contest before eventually winning the whole thing. But in the last game of the final, he destroyed his competition to win the tournament championship and $100,000. ![]() In the first of two final games in the 2001 Tournament of Champions, Rutter finished second. But in the Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time tournament, Rutter hasn’t been off to the best start, and because of that, it’s fair to wonder how exactly he’s still never lost to a human competitor after finishing third in the first two matches (each match consists of two games with a combined score).ĭespite ultimately winning the aforementioned tournaments against people, Rutter lost a game during two different tournaments, according to J! Archives, but still ended up with titles. ![]()
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