[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the June 7, 2023 episode of Jeopardy!]
The gamers in Jeopardy!‘s June 7 episode know there have been loads of stumpers. One participant, Collette Lee, took to Reddit to answer fan feedback in regards to the frequency of that well-known triple beep heard all through the night time’s sport.
“That actually was loads of beep beep beeps (triple stumpers),” wrote one consumer on the present’s Reddit board. One other viewer tracked all of them, admitting they had been stumped as properly. “Twenty three complete — seven within the J spherical, and a whopping 16 (greater than half the board) within the DJ spherical. Brutal,” they commented. “My Coryat got here in nearly 30 p.c under my common, so I had hassle with it as properly.”
“This needs to be within the working for worst sport ever, proper?” one fan requested. “I imply —16 triple stumpers in DJ, out of 28 questions (two questions had been left unplayed). Plus solely 33 right solutions throughout the 2 rounds, and two incorrect DDs. Wow.” Because the stumper counter above replied, “As we speak’s sport was the bottom mixed Coryat of the season up to now: $21,400. Final season’s lowest was $15,400.”
Nobody observed the troublesome sport greater than its gamers. As Collette commented on the thread, talking for her and fellow competitor Kristine Rembach, “Collette right here – Kristine and I commented on that to one another earlier than Ultimate, saying that we had been fearful we’d go viral for not realizing something! I personally tried to ‘maintain calm and clam up’ to attempt to keep away from ending up within the purple with unhealthy guesses however as the sport wore on, particularly in Double Jeopardy it was apparent we had been collectively driving the battle bus with our board!”
She was met with help in response. “Not less than you didn’t go into the purple and received FJ proper! Kudos for posting right here, and I hope you had a great expertise regardless of the beep beep beeps,” one fan replied.
Suresh Krishnan was the returning champ of the night time. And regardless of the puzzling clues earlier on, Ultimate Jeopardy was not a triple stumper. He and Collette each answered the ultimate immediate accurately. The class was “European International locations,” with the clue being: “Of all of the nations that border Italy, the one which didn’t exist in 1990.” The right response was, “What’s Slovenia?”
Suresh took dwelling the win as soon as extra, bringing his two-day winnings complete to $21,099. Collette ended with $6,999, and Kristine completed with $2,999.
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