{"id":252,"date":"2011-03-04T01:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T06:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/?p=252"},"modified":"2020-05-01T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:06:39","slug":"perfect-game-of-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/2011\/03\/04\/perfect-game-of-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Game of <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the maximum amount of money that can be won on a single episode of <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(null);\" onclick=\"s_toggleDisplay(document.getElementById('SID1091563905'), this, 'Show solution\u2026 &#9660;', '\u2026hide solution &#9650;');\">Show solution\u2026 &#9660;<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='SID1091563905' style='display:none;'>\n<p>At this point in time (2011), the lowest value question in single-Jeopardy! is $200 and the highest is $1,000. The values are doubled in Double Jeopardy!\u2026 duh.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>In the first round:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Add up the values in one column: $200 + $400 + $600 + $800 + $1,000 = $3,000<\/li>\n<li>Multiply by six columns: $3,000 x 6 = $18,000<\/li>\n<li>Subtract one of the lowest value questions for a Daily Double: $18,000 &#8211; $200 = $17,800<\/li>\n<li>Bid it all and win the daily-double (double the amount): $17,800 x 2 = $35,600<\/li>\n<li><strong>In Double Jeopardy! (amounts are doubled):<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Add up the values in one column: $400 + $800 + $1,200 + $1,600 + $2,000 = $6,000<\/li>\n<li>Multiply by six columns: $6,000 x 6 = $36,000<\/li>\n<li>Subtract two of the lowest value questions for the two Daily Doubles: $36,000 &#8211; $800 = $35,200<\/li>\n<li>Add the amount won from the first round: $35,600 + $35,200 = $70,800<\/li>\n<li>Bid it all and win the daily-double (double the amount): $71,200 x 2 = $141,600<\/li>\n<li>Bid it all and win the other daily-double (double the amount): $141,600 x 2 = $283,200<\/li>\n<li><strong>In Final Jeopardy!:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Bid it all again and win (double the amount): $283,200 x 2 = $566,400<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So there you have it, the most that can be one in one day on <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> is <strong>$566,400<\/strong>. Not bad, not bad at all. It\u2019s too bad that unlike in bowling, a perfect game of <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> is essentially impossible because in addition to requiring a lot of skill to get every question correct (and not letting the other players get any at all), it also requires luck to get the daily-doubles last, and even more luck that both of them are on a lowest-valued questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/math\/\" rel=\"tag\">Math<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/puzzles\/\" rel=\"tag\">Puzzles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/television\/\" rel=\"tag\">Television<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the maximum amount of money that can be won on a single episode of Jeopardy!? Show solution\u2026 &#9660; At this point in time (2011), the lowest value question in single-Jeopardy! is $200 and the highest is $1,000. The values are doubled in Double Jeopardy!\u2026 duh. In the first round: Add up the values [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,55,56],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-math","tag-puzzles","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}