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Matt Amodio won his second game of the 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament on Thursday, March 6, meaning he won the entire tournament. He played against Roger Craig and Juveria Zaheer and is now speaking out about his first tournament win. The champion appeared on the Inside Jeopardy! Podcast the day after his win to talk about his fellow competitors, how he practiced, and what’s next for him. Amodio had finished in third and sixth on Jeopardy! Masters, so winning feels good, he shared. Podcast host Sarah Whitcomb-Foss asked Amodio how he felt going into the competition going up against 26 other Jeopardy! greats. Out of the contestants, Amodio had only ever played against Amy Schneider and Jonathan Fisher. “I didn’t feel great about it,” he shared. “There were some people that I’ve been a big fan of and then some I didn’t know but wowed me. Knowing how much talent was in this pool,...

Jeopardy! fans are not only celebrating Matt Amodio‘s big win from Thursday’s (March 6) Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament final but also the return of regular episodes, which kick off tonight, Friday (March 7). The Jeopardy! post-season ended on Thursday night as fan favorite Amodio defeated Roger Craig and Juveria Zaheer to become the Jit winner, earning his spot in the next season of Jeopardy! Masters. This means regular Jeopardy! with new contestants returns today for a 101-episode run, which is set to end on July 25. Amodio celebrated his victory on X, quipping, “The #Jeopardy Master nobody wanted… I’m back!” alongside a Gif of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. He also praised his fellow finalists, writing, “It is such a pleasure getting to play #Jeopardy with @rogcraig and @juveriazaheer, except for the part that they’re both incredibly good at this game and I’m trying to win. At least this makes for some entertaining TV!

The Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament concluded Thursday night with a nail-biting finish, a triple stumper Final Jeopardy!, and a decisive victory for Matt Amodio. Entering the final match with a one-game lead, Amodio needed only one more win to secure the tournament title and the $150,000 grand prize. He faced off against Juveria Zaheer and Roger […]

Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament Crowns a Champion...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the Thursday, March 6, episode of Jeopardy!] After Matt Amodio racked up the second-highest score of the entire season, he returned for game two of the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament finals to try and win it all. He played once again against Roger Craig, from Arlington, Virginia, and Juveria Zaheer, from Whitby, Ontario, Canada, on Thursday, March 6. Despite both Amodio, from New York, New York, and Craig being fast on the buzzer, Zaheer racked up money in the beginning of the game due to the category “Canadiana,” where the questions were about Canada, where she lives. Zaheer, a psychiatrist, also correctly answered a question about a female Canadian hockey player. This brought her to the lead with $2,400. Craig, an applied scientist, then correctly answered the first Daily Double of the game, giving him second place. Amodio, a quantitative researcher, then answered questions correctly, putting him in the lead before the first commercial break. However, he ...

Wednesday’s Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament saw a tense match between three formidable players: Juveria Zaheer, Roger Craig, and Matt Amodio. While all three demonstrated impressive knowledge across a range of categories, it was a strategic wager in Final Jeopardy! that ultimately determined the victor. The first round featured a mix of highs and lows, with Roger […]

Jeopardy! Wed March 5 Invitational Tournament Recap: A Mathematical Finish...

Tuesday’s Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament match delivered a nail-biting finish, with Juveria Zaheer emerging victorious after a strategic Final Jeopardy! wager. Facing off against returning champion Ray Lalonde and fellow competitor Raymond Goslow, Zaheer showed a consistent performance throughout the game, ultimately securing her spot in the next round. The first round, featuring categories like “World […]

Jeopardy! Recap: Tuesday March 4, 2025 – Juveria Zaheer Advances in High-Stakes Match...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the Tuesday, March 4 episode of Jeopardy!] The last semifinals of the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament came down to a gutsy wager. It all came down to Final Jeopardy! to determine who was moving on to the finals. Juveria Zaheer, from Whitby, Ontario, Canada, played against fellow Canadian, Ray Lalonde, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Raymond Goslow, from Marietta, Georgia. The game started with a battle between Zaheer and Goslow, with one answering a handful of questions then the other. Meanwhile, Lalonde, a scenic artist, was in the hole with -$800. However, he did know a question about cigars, bringing his total up to $0. Goslow, a library technology consultant, was in the lead until he found the first Daily Double. He wagered all of his money and plummeted to $0 when he answered incorrectly. However, he quickly turned his game around to tie Zaheer, a psychiatrist, by the end of the first round. Lalonde was in ...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the Thursday, February 27 episode of Jeopardy!] A Jeopardy! player hopes that the audience at home and in the studio could feel the magic that she felt while playing. After the last quarterfinals of the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament, Juveria Zaheer, Season 40 Second Chance and Champions Wildcard winner and 2024 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist, spoke out about her time in the tournament. Zaheer, from Whitby, Ontario, Canada, played against Seth Wilson, 12-game Jeopardy! winner, and Jackson Jones, 2019 Teen Tournament semifinalist and 2023 High School Reunion Tournament runner-up. The game started off pretty equally as all three game show contestants correctly answered questions. However, Zaheer fell to last place when she bet it all on the first Daily Double. The crowd went wild when the psychiatrist found it, cheering and hollering in their seats. “The structure called this, after the old city of Tokyo, was built; over centuries it expanded greatly, then contracted,” the clue read. Zaheer was ...

The 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament is set to tape from Tuesday, February 4, to Thursday, February 6, according to The Jeopardy! Fan, and on Reddit, fans are submitting their contestant wishlists. “Who do you think will be in this year’s Jit?” one Reddit user wrote on Saturday, February 1, kicking off the conversation. That user had a long list of predictions, proposing Matt Amodio, Amy Schneider, Mattea Roach, Ben Chan, Troy Meyer, Brad Rutter, Julia Collins, Emma Boettcher, Roger Craig, Hannah Wilson, Cris Pannullo, Ray Lalonde, Juveria Zaheer, Rowan Ward, Jonathan Fisher, Margaret Shelton, Veronica Vichit-Vadakan, Ryan Bilger, Karen Farrell, and Tim Kutz. In a popular comment on the thread, a Jeopardy! fan hoped Mehal Shah would be invited back after his controversial “horriblis” exit from the Tournament of Champions last week. “He’s an exciting player who bets big and [is] clearly very talented,” that commenter wrote. Another fan, however, recalled a rule...

Drew Basile is returning to reality competition television, this time testing his wits on the game show Jeopardy!. The episode in which he appears is set to air Wednesday, June 19. The Survivor 45 contestant made the announcement in an Instagram post on Tuesday, June 4. Basile most recently competed as one of 18 contestants on CBS’ Survivor Season 45, placing sixth overall. A college graduate from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied English and Philosophy, the 23-year-old was (perhaps fittingly) named the season’s “know-it-all.” Praised as a strong strategist, he often had a handle on the majority vote, until he was voted out after a shocking switch by one of his fellow contestants. Basile even identified himself as a “nerd” throughout the season. Basile, believed to be the first to appear on both competition shows, is currently pursuing his masters in English Literature at the University of Oxford in England. In January this year,...

After weeks of twists and turns, Jeopardy! has finally crowned the winner of the 2024 Tournament of Champions.

Yogesh Raut towered above the competition throughout the finals, and his third victory allowed him to take the overall win.

Tuesday’s shocking episode featured the power going back and forth between him and Troy Meyer.

Ben Chan, who turned in another strong showing throughout the Tournament of Champions, struggled to keep up the pace.

Ultimately, Raut’s win came after he pulled ahead of Meyer when his opponent got the answer wrong at the start of Final Jeopardy!

Raut’s win secured him a healthy $250,000 prize and an entry in the upcoming Jeopardy! Masters tournament.

Changes are on the horizon for Jeopardy!

Yes, the show is all about tournaments these days and recycling competitors, but that will change very soon.

Raut, Chan, and Meyer recently felt the ire of Taylor Swift fans...

Is there such a thing as too much Jeopardy? We don’t think so.

As the current Tournament of Champions approaches the finish line, we already have confirmation on what’s on tap for the rest of the month.

As expected, more alums will return to the show before we meet new faces in April.

The producers’ aim is for the new players to have original questions that haven’t previously been used on the show.

Next up, we’re getting fan favorites back on the show for the first-ever invitational tournament.

Austin Rogers, who gained many fans during his initial stint on Jeopardy, will return alongside Andrew He, Amy Schneider, and Sam Buttrey.

The Jeopardy! invitational tournament has some big names

The cast also includes Brandon Blackwell, Colby Burnett, Lily Chin, Arthur Chu, Leonard Cooper, Celeste Dinucci, Chuck Forrest, Dhruv Gaur, Victoria Groce, and Ben Ingram.

Matt Jackson, Alex Jacob,...

Troy Meyer scored a major win in the second game of the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions finals on March 13, marking a massive improvement from his third-place loss in the March 12 matchup. With a potentially record-breaking final score and a Daily Double wager that had the live audience screaming with excitement, fans online are praising his “stunning” playing. Troy was up against fellow finalists Ben Chan, who won the March 12 game, and Yogesh Raut. Yogesh was seeking redemption after his shocking Final Jeopardy wager landed him in second place in the first game of the finals. In Game 2, he bet it all in his Final Jeopardy wager instead of zero. But even doubling his score from 20,400 to 40,800 wasn’t enough to beat Troy. “On a normal day, Yogesh, that would win a Jeopardy game,” host Ken Jennings joked. “But Troy Meyer has $46,800. That is our highest total going into Final Jeopardy of the season,...

Jeopardy!‘s chaotic Tournament of Champions has its semifinalists after Wednesday’s (March 6) last quarterfinal game, which saw Troy Meyer cement himself as the potential new frontrunner. Meyer, a music executive and professional quizzer from Tampa, Florida, who won six games during Season 39, returned to the Alex Trebek Stage with a point to prove. He was up against Sean McShane, a tour guide from South Boston, Massachusetts, and Deb Bilodeau, a restaurant server from San Francisco, California. While other favorites like Cris Pannullo, Hannah Wilson, and Juveria Zaheer were knocked out of the competition early, Meyer lived up to expectations with a dominant performance. Meyer took an early lead in the first round, answering 14 clues correctly and amassing $7,000. He then leveled up in Double Jeopardy, finding and successfully answering both Daily Doubles, which put him in a runaway position with more than a third of the round still to play.

The latest Tournament of Champions on Jeopardy! has delivered many shocking moments.

Tuesday’s new episode was another for the books after Ben Chan comfortably beat out fellow champions Justin Bolsen and Emmett Stanton.

At the beginning of the high-octane installment, host Ken Jennings discussed how the 2024 Tournament of Champions has been the most “dramatic in history.”

Going into the episode, Chan was seen as a strong competitor, with nine initial wins. Still, given that many strong competitors had already lost their spot in the tournament, nothing was off the table.

From the jump, Chan had a comfortable lead, snagging a Daily Double at $7,000.

By the time we got to Double Jeopardy!, he had banked $11,400, compared to Bolsen’s $1,600 and Stanton’s $3,200.

Ben Chan’s victory was imminent

By the Final Jeopardy!, he had amassed $29,800, so it was inevitable he would be leaving with the win and advance to the semifinals.

Order has been restored to Jeopardy!‘s 2024 Tournament of Champions thanks to fan favorite Ben Chan, who won Tuesday night’s (March 5) episode in dominant fashion. Chan, who won nine consecutive games in Season 39 before a controversial wrong-letter ruling knocked him out, entered the Toc as one of the front-runners. However, so far, this has been a cursed competition for the favorites, turning into the Tournament of Death with Cris Pannullo, Hannah Wilson, Juveria Zaheer, and Ray Lalonde all losing their quarter-final games. The philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin, broke the curse on Tuesday as he faced off against Emmett Stanton, a freelance writer from Baltimore, Maryland, and Justin Bolsen, a public policy economics student at Brown University from Canton, Georgia, who won last year’s High School Reunion Tournament. Chan set the pace right from the off when he clinched a true Daily Double and took an early lead with six correct clues.

Jeopardy! Tournament of the Champions has been firing from all cylinders, with countless power shifts that have changed the trajectory of the competition.

Things took quite the turn on Friday with an episode that some fans felt was “weird” and “unpredictable,” depending on who you ask.

Brian Henegar, Josh Saak, and Stephen Webb faced off as the game went in various directions in a short time before one of them was crowned the winner.

Webb was nixed from the competition ahead of the final clue due to “flirting with negative amounts,” as host Ken Jennings put it.

It was not a good game for Webb.

One fan on the show’s Subreddit felt that the board “wasn’t too much in favor to the contestants.”

Webb’s performance stunned many fans

The fan affirmed that Webb is a “good player,” and they “felt bad that he ended up in the red.

Jeopardy’s Tournament of Champions is getting more cutthroat by the episode, with the people we expect the least losing their place in the high-stakes competition.

Juveria Zaheer’s time on the game show concluded on Thursday. She was knocked out of the match despite starting the episode with an early lead on competitors Kevin Belle and Luigi de Guzman.

The lead included the psychiatrist racking up an impressive $11,400 after answering 15 clues correctly.

To put it in perspective, Belle had $2,200, and Guzman had $1,600 at the same point, so where did it all go wrong for Zaheer?

Things got dicey when Guzman found both Daily Doubles and doubled up on them to take the lead, but it was still very close.

Zaheer took the lead back heading into Final Jeopardy! with a pretty $23,400, compared to Guzman’s $22,000 and Belle’s $5,800.

The final answer ruined Juveria Zaheer’s chances of winning

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Jeopardy!‘s Tournament of Champions is turning into the Tournament of Death as it continues to deliver devastating results. Another fan-favorite front-runner was knocked out of the competition on Thursday night (February 29). Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada, won fans over during her impressive underdog run through the Season 40 tournaments. Having lost to super-champ Hannah Wilson during her original Season 39 game, Zaheer returned to the Alex Trebek stage, where she won both the Second Chance and Champions Wildcard tournaments. Having earned her Toc spot in dominant fashion, fans had high hopes for Zaheer ahead of Thursday’s episode. She faced off in a tense showdown with Kevin Belle, a trail planner from Silver Spring, Maryland, and Luigi de Guzman, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia. Zaheer got out to an early lead, picking up right where she left off in the Wildcard by being super quick on the buzzer.

Jeopardy! is having a little fun ahead of its much-anticipated Tournament of Champions by awarding some popular contestants with Jeopardy! Honors; however, fans believe one particular player was snubbed. Ahead of the 2024 Toc, which kicks off on Friday, February 23, the long-running game show will air its first-ever Jeopardy! Honors event. This light-hearted special, which was taped during the Toc, will stream on YouTube at 6 pm Pt on Thursday, February 22. The official Jeopardy! Instagram account revealed the categories and winners on Tuesday, February, 20, naming 2022 Toc winner Amy Schneider as the Alex Trebek Person of the Year. Other winners included 21-day champ Cris Pannullo as Most Valuable Player, Second Chance and Champions Wildcard victor Juveria Zaheer for Breakthrough Performance, and Martha Bath, who also appeared on the Art Fleming era of Jeopardy!, for Best Interview.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Jeopardy! (@jeopardy) Elsewhere, Yungsheng Wang won Best Signature,...

Jeopardy!‘s strike-delayed Tournament of Champions is getting celebritized.

Sony announced Tuesday that this year’s contest — which kicks off Friday, Feb. 23 — will feature among its contestants Celebrity Jeopardy! breakout Ike Barinholtz. This will be the first time ToC will welcome a champion from ABC’s starry primetime spinoff.

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The seemingly never-ending onslaught of Jeopardy! tournaments can be a drag, until a thrilling game comes along that reminds you why having these seasoned players return is a good thing. Fans were thrilled by the “intense” competition on display in the Tuesday, January 30 Jeopardy episode, which saw champs Juveria Zaheer, Robbi Ramirez, and Alec Chao square up for a semi-final installment of the Champions Wildcard Tournament. The competition was fierce between these three, although the excitement didn’t truly pick up until Double Jeopardy. By the end of the first round, the scores were Juveria with 7,400, Alec with 1,200, and Robbi with 1,600. All of their scores shot up in round two, which ended with Juveria at 18,200, Alec at 10,000, and Robbi at 22,600. It was the high-scoring game fans always want to see, which made for an exciting Final Jeopardy that could have been won by any of the three competitors. The category was “Names in History,...

Jeopardy fans think (and hope) they might be watching a new long-running champion of the game following Juveria Zaheer’s dominating performance in the Wednesday, January 17, 2024 episode of the Champions Wildcard competition. The returning player first appeared on the game show on May 8, 2023, losing to the impressive Hannah Wilson. Juveria didn’t waste her second chance at a Jeopardy title, as shown in her staggering improvement between rounds one and two. By the end of the first round, the Canadian psychiatrist was leading with 5,600. Her competitors, Devin Lohman and Patti Palmer, followed with 1,600 and 3,800, respectively. By the end of the second round, Juveria had won 32,800, with Devin and Patti far behind at 6,400 and 7,000. A successful (and risky) true Daily Double bet helped her go from 11,600 to 23,200 in just one move, and the game was hers from that point on. Juveria finished in first place with a final score of 40,800. Devin...

Jeopardy! has revealed the lineup for the Season 39 Champions Wildcard competition, starting today. The contest comprises 50 players who secured victories in one or two games last season, alongside four Second Chance competition winners. They are all competing for a chance to win one of two $100,000 grand prizes and secure the final two spots in the 2024 Tournament of Champions. The roster of returning champions and the competition schedule are detailed below, with double asterisks indicating Second Chance winners. Champions Wildcard Group 1 Tuesday, January 16: Quarterfinal 1 Sharon Stone, an early childhood intervention manager from Round Rock, Texas Katie Palumbo, a museum membership specialist from Amawalk, N.Y. Andy Tirrell, a political science and international relations professor from San Diego, Calif. Wednesday, January 17: Quarterfinal 2 **Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario, Canada Devin Lohman, an architectural designer and Masters student from Peachtree City, Ga. Patti Palmer, a retired teacher and bookseller from Tulsa,...

Juveria Zaheer made the most of her return to Jeopardy! in December when she smashed through the competition to win the first finals of the Second Chance tournament. But she isn’t the only member of her family to have success on a popular game show. During her first Jeopardy! episode, which aired back on May 8, 2023, Juveria gave an impressive performance but came up short against super-champ Hannah Wilson. But it was during that episode when Juveria revealed to host Ken Jennings that her brother was an “evil mastermind” on Survivor. It’s true, Juveria’s brother is Omar Zaheer, who competed on Survivor 42 back in 2022. A veterinarian from Whitby, Ontario, Omar was considered one of the biggest strategic threats on the season and made it all the way to sixth place before he was blindsided by his ally and eventual winner, Maryanne Oketch. “Finally coming to terms with being...

The three returning Jeopardy! contestants on Wednesday’s (December 20) edition of Second Chance didn’t waste their shot at redemption as they delivered one of the most nail-biting showdowns of the season. In a match-up some are calling one of the craziest in Jeopardy! history, former Season 39 players Jake Garrett, Sam Claussen, and Juveria Zaheer faced off in an epic battle, which saw them all finish on scores above $30,000, with only a few hundred dollars separating them. The action got off to a hot start in the Jeopardy! round, with Claussen, a history professor from Santa Clarita, California, taking an early lead after landing on the game’s first Daily Double. Heading into Double Jeopardy, Claussen led the way with $10,400, while Zaheer and Garrett trailed with $5,600 and $3,400, respectively. Things only got crazier in the Double Jeopardy round after Zaheer found the game’s next Daily Double. After dominating the Opera category,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for the May 8 episode of Jeopardy!] Pronunciation is everything on Jeopardy!, but there is a bit of debate over whether one contestant’s answer was actually enough in the latest episode. Data scientist Hannah Wilson returned with a three-day total of $90,601 to compete against actuary Sami Casanova and psychiatrist Juveria Zaheer, and it was in the Double Jeopardy! round that all three were ruled incorrect due to pronunciation in the category “The Quotable Alex.” The $1600 clue read, “An author & former prisoner: ‘Socialism of any type & shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.’” All three rang in with different pronunciations of the Russian writer Solzhenitsyn. “This is a tricky one to pronounce,” host Mayim Bialik acknowledged. This led to some debate on Reddit not just about this specific case but in general when it comes to these situations. One user thought that Hannah’s “fit within the guideline of being ...