On 2/4/14, 2:14 PM, Leon wrote:
On 2/4/2014 2:03 PM, woodchucker wrote:
On 2/4/2014 2:58 PM, Leon wrote:
On 2/4/2014 12:41 PM, woodchucker wrote:
On 2/4/2014 1:10 PM, Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:53:28 -0600, Leon wrote:
This latest contestant is ****ing every one off because he
knows how to play to win vs. just knowing the answers. So
far he is up over $100K.
My wife and I are long time Jeopardy watchers. We saw
nothing unusual in his jumping around the board. He was a
little quick on replies but we remember others who did
likewise.
He's gone now, so the tempest will blow over.
We only get upset when Jeopardy is usurped by some #$%^
sporting event :-).
Remember what Hemingway said: "The only real sports are auto
racing and bullfighting - everything else is just exercise."
My wife and I are big fans of Jeopardy. I didn't feel he was
doing anything wrong.
He was doing nothing wrong according to the rules. He was
however not playing in the fashion that the producers and Alex
would have preferred.
If you choose the big dollar questions first and get them right
you can miss more answers and still stay ahead. If you start at
the bottom and let the "excitement" build you have to answer more
answers to win $1000.
So if all of the contestants know all of the questions to the
answers, the contestant that starts with the $1000 answer and
goes down will get a commanding lead if he is quick to push the
buzzer.
And that is actually a smart way to play. I always wondered why
more people didn't do that. Especially when behind.
I think contestants play from the bottom up because that is how they
see/saw it being played for the previous 30 years.
Because this latest contestant has caused such a stir on the media
Jeopardy may change in how it is being played in the future.
I think they play that way for another reason.
The answer get progressively more difficult. They is often a "theme"
beyond the category title to the way the "answers" are worded. So
starting on the easy ones can make answering the difficult ones... well,
less difficult.
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