{"id":85274,"date":"2023-03-21T00:39:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/21\/jeopardy-fans-react-to-contestants-puzzling-wagers-on-daily-double-final\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T00:39:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T00:39:12","slug":"jeopardy-fans-react-to-contestants-puzzling-wagers-on-daily-double-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/21\/jeopardy-fans-react-to-contestants-puzzling-wagers-on-daily-double-final\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Jeopardy!&#8217; Fans React to Contestant&#8217;s Puzzling Wagers on Daily Double &#038; Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/jeopardy-melissa-klapper-march-20.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the March 20 episode of <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A contestant\u2019s wager \u2014 on Daily Doubles or Final Jeopardy \u2014 might be what results in a win or loss. And on the newest episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/show\/jeopardy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Jeopardy!<\/em><\/a>, bets on each of these from one contestant caught the eye of followers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it got here to 3rd Daily Double, the final clue of the sport earlier than Final Jeopardy, Melissa Klapper was main with $21,400 (over returning champion Kelly Barry\u2019s $8,200 and Jake Garrett\u2019s $12,400). She wagered $3000, in Alphabet Homophones: \u201cIt\u2019s a term for the seat of authority of a bishop.\u201d She was appropriate with \u201dWhat is see?\u201d so she ended Double Jeopardy with $24,400.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Final Jeopardy\u2019s class was Countries of Africa. The clue was: \u201cAt one time a province of the Roman Empire, this kingdom is known to Arabic scholars as Al-Maghrib Al-Aqsa, \u2018the far west.\u2019\u201d Kelly added $8000 to her whole for the right reply of Morocco. Jake doubled his rating, placing him within the lead since, as host <a href=\"http:\/\/tvinsider.com\/people\/ken-jennings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ken Jennings<\/a> put it, \u201cMelissa did not wager quite enough on the final Daily Double.\u201d She did have the right reply, and with what Jennings referred to as \u201cthe perfect wager\u201d of $401, she turned the Jeopardy champion with $24,801.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But was it the \u201cperfect wager\u201d? Viewers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Jeopardy\/comments\/11woq4g\/jeopardy_recap_for_mon_mar_20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a> had been confused by Melissa\u2019s bets. Regarding her Final Jeopardy wager, one consumer wrote, \u201cothers would suggest the best wager in that situation is $7,999, which maximizes Melissa\u2019s winnings if correct while still locking out Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when it got here to that Daily Double wager, a few of the responses had been \u201coof,\u201d \u201cone of the most baffling DD wagers I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d and \u201cvery questionable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A pair customers attributed Melissa\u2019s nerves to her Daily Double wager, with one questioning, \u201caren\u2019t contestants briefed beforehand that they get significantly more time than \u2018a couple of seconds\u2019 to ponder their DD wagers? Melissa had realised her error by the time the clue came on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Viewers on Twitter echoed their sentiments however had been additionally impressed by Melissa profitable by $1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What a horrible wager on the ultimate every day double! She may\u2019ve been out of attain if she guess one other $401. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jeopardy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Jeopardy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saul N Pepa (@Saulstice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Saulstice\/status\/1637935085239300099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Should have guess extra on that every day double. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jeopardy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Jeopardy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DeDisGirl \ud83c\udf08 \ud83e\udd85 \u26be\ufe0f (@ashleyrm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashleyrm\/status\/1637959241649512448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Whoooooooooooo. What a wager <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jeopardy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Jeopardy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JVWJz6XuT1\">pic.twitter.com\/JVWJz6XuT1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 this consumer (@i2oxanne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i2oxanne\/status\/1637959323434250242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">She gained by $1. Great participant. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jeopardy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Jeopardy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LinestandingNYC\u2120 (@linestandingnyc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/linestandingnyc\/status\/1637959342300200967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Jeopardy!<\/em>, Weekdays, Check native listings<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] [Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the March 20 episode of Jeopardy!] A contestant\u2019s wager \u2014 on Daily Doubles or Final Jeopardy \u2014 might be what results in a win or loss. And on the newest episode of Jeopardy!, bets on each of these from one contestant caught the eye of followers. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}