The show is edited for time.

conkerlive101 A lot of time goes by the viewer does not see. My teacher was on the show and she said how one guy had an answer that was questionable and they reviewed it for several minutes

There was a tie before. It was a three way tie

Shaun Meehan No, it’s not edited for time. Jeopardy films three episodes back to back, twice a day in the morning and afternoon for a total of six episodes per day, with enough time in between for Alex and the ‘previous’ winner to change clothing (on set). Every episode is produced ready for broadcast with intro, commercial wait time and credits included in the show’s pacing right in studio.

Yeah they could’ve been confused because it could’ve been another Final Jeopardy format question, but nope instantly buzzed in a answered

I think the transition is intended to be quick to deviate from the participants' expectations. The crew watches what they write on the boards during Final Jeopardy and calculates their gains/losses, so they knew this was going to happen before we did.

I mean... there was probably some off camera explaining that we didn't see.

They're on a timeslot, they can't do anything special.

It has happened before 3 years ago, although it was a teens tournament

they cut a lot in Jeopardy. you cant have as much time as you want to decide how much money you will risk in final Jeopardy

yeah wonder if she kinda peed her pants when she knew the answer

Game on joe Lol, why is this horse shit on trending? I know that the trending page is rigged and all but they can't even put something valuable up there?

Gravity Falls Canada it's not on trending tho...

Gravity Falls Canada judging by your writing, trivia and knowledge aren’t your thing. Keep scrolling though, maybe you’ll find something about Slim Jim’s, Marlboro Reds or Mountain Dew.

jack p Lol you're an idiot. The trending page is ridged... It's been a fact for a while now...

Usually you gain something when you watch a video, like some entertainment or happiness... But I feel like I've just lost something...

Johnus Smittinis exactly XD

I don't know. Something about how this was so prepared made me appreciate it a bit more.

Hey, they can't keep confetti above the rafters waiting for 50 years like Millionaire does.

Agreed, the editing cut out too much.

No ties. We fight!

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Jello wrestling would have been a better mechanism to determine a winner

@@ArmyJames What about mud wrestling?

Well go watch Jerry Springer then. Alex was trying to host a sophisticated show for intellectuals. Battle of wits yo.

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Ryan Conrath I think he was also rushed for time so he dove straight in

I'm guessing this was also edited. Most jeopardy episodes have the occasional pause or flub that gets edited out. I'm guessing they stopped and explained what was going to happen to the contestants.

As cool as he is, this isn't the first term they had a tiebreaker. There was one in 2014

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And I just found that they also had a tiebreaker in 2012 ;P

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I played it twice but didn't see the slightest change of expression.

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Serves her right. She lost the game with that bad wager. She can't win if the player in first bets to cover an all-in bet, so there was no reason to bet more than $3401. It is also interesting to note that the player in third would have won outright with a correct answer. This would not have been possible if the player in second hadn't bet so much.

@@zanti4132 exactly this. Its maddening watching so many of the smartest trivia players in the world, make such silly wagers time & time again.

@@Takhar7 different kind of intelligence.

I think only winners get the money now

I thought 2nd gets 2,000 and 3rd 1,000. Havent watched for a long time

He’s going to have to order the burger only if he wants cheese.

He gets $1000, so he gets to buy quite a few fast food box meals

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The show is edited rather than 100% broadcast live, so likely he and the producers already know the outcome of the game based on the answer/question and wager of each contestant before they are being revealed (hence the writing on an electronic screen) and can get everything ready to make it look like a smoother transition.

@@theevilascotcompany9255 IIRC from reading stuff, he knows the wagers in advance but not the responses.

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Alexander Wong..Good point.. I didn't think of it like that

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Let's not forget that, like most other shows of its kind, the big J! used to do "play your five and see you next time" , the next time being the "tournament of champions". Now it's more of a "winner stays, loser pays" system - in other words, the first flub by the champ is the undoing rather than cutting things short at the end of a week's time. That's how we got insane s**t like Ken Jennings with his massive, $2+ Million, 74 game streak.

@@chapter7thomas It was not about "saving money", it was about preserving the flow of the list of contestants that should be played the next game. One would had been bumped out if the co-champions format continued until now.

There was actually a game theory discussion that sometimes it's better to wager an amount where a loss causes you to tie. Part of theory was that you've already beaten your opponent. I forget the exact circumstances for it, though. Now, it's trickier and you want to not risk sudden death.

@@paulm3952 I was always of the mind under the previous rules that you wager for the tie rather than the $1 win for just that reason - you know you can beat one of the two opponents you'll face in the next game. So whenever somebody won by $1 I always thought it was a dick move.

@@diamonddog13 This was exactly the game strategy of Arthur Chu, and many think that the tiebreaker rule was put in place because of him. Whenever he didn’t have a lock game going into Final Jeopardy, he always bet for the tie - though only one game actually ended in a tie.

Liked it much better then. It would really be exciting if all three tied and came back to do it all over again. The tie breaker is so ho-hum .

@@majorneptunejr It may be not exciting but the supposed contestant on the next game would not be happy had co-champions continued until this day because he/she was bumped out of taping that supposed to compete.

that dude isn't dumb enough to pay $3.50 for a fountain soda and fries

It's not the first time there's been a tie. In the past both players would keep the money and return for the next show. They changed the rules recently.

ah thanks for the correction

Trebek didn't give a shit .. just meant he had to work a little longer.

N7 Bullseye don't thank them, I didn't correct anything.. it was the first time a tiebreaker has been on Jeopardy, so you are correct.

kolst8406 it's the first time there was a tie breaker.

Yes, and I don't know why the rule was changed.

Probably edited to get it into the time slot .

Probably! They edit the show to fit in their timeslot on TV. Likely, it was explained and they just edited out for time purposes.

I've seen people say either 2014 or 2016 was the effective rule change. You're correct in saying that the rule used to be different. ... Personally, I think it may have to do with contestant winnings and preventing contestants from doing math to cause ties and double champions. Such math could allow contestants to collude to tie and continue to be co-champions. (People do the math all the time, you can see games where frequent watchers have identified how final scores after Double Jeopardy affect wagers for Final Jeopardy, and determine the best course of action based on scores.) See j-archive.com/ for more about what I'm talking about. Since the introduction of minimum prizes for 2nd ($2000) and 3rd place ($1000), it would be cheaper to require a single champion over co-champions. On www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/features/a-jeopardy-tiebreaker ... they explain that the "the judges concluded that [tiebreakers were] fitting to bring that same level of competition [from Tournaments] to the regular games." ... Personally, it just seems crappy to go from the final jeopardy format back to a signaling device clue... surely there's enough time to add in an extra 60 seconds or so of game?

"Doing the math" and determining a proper wager is a big part of Final Jeopardy! and not something they will want to do away with or discourage. Quite to the contrary, these surprise endings are a big part of the drama in the action and success with the format. A player can be dominating all the way to the very end, then wager wrong or answer wrong at Final and totally change their fate. I don't see how it would benefit any player to collude with another. One thing I can say without reservation about all Jeopardy! contestants: those players want to win. Thinking as a producer for a moment, I can see the downsides of co-champions. The producers have to pay out a substantial prize to two and even three winners, not just one. GEICO became a sponsor of the final prize money. I wouldn't be surprised if capping off the possibility of multiple winners first came up when that sponsorship slot was first offered. That would create a big variable of uncertainty for sponsorships and producers don't like uncertainty. As a viewer, I like co-champions more because I like the idea that if you achieve an equal score at the end, you should walk away with equal earnings. Further, I like that the end can't just be a fluke or luck-of-the-draw. The contestants get a whole other episode to battle it out to find out who the true champion should be. If I were a contestant, I would prefer that too. That's why, while I think I understand the motivations behind the change, I liked it better as it was before the rules changed.

There's a finite number of episodes and many contestants that they would like to get on the show. The new format allows them to get more contestants on the air.

It was not the first tie ever. It was just the first tie breaker. They used to let both come back .

CrispyMiner there have been lots of ties in the past. There just haven't ever been tie breakers. In the past, the contestants who tied both were brought back for the next episode.

Also, there was a tiebreaker in 2014 for a teen tournament.

The tiebreaker rule is only 2 years old. Everybodyrealized benefits of wagering for the tie and they had to give out too much money.

Crispy wtf are you doing here

@@hgb0005 Yeah and that should only be used in tournament play and not in a regular game!!

Yes, they always did albeit it was a rare occurrence. They changed the rules for no more ties in the last few years I think.

@@1981lashlarue @ShadowWhelp I like it better without a tiebreaker - bring 'em both back! As someone else wrote, the tiebreaker was pretty anti-climactic. Does anyone remember the 3-way tie???

@@watson956 I definitely remember the 3-way tie!

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I guess they stopped it because it made the contestant in the lead realize they could force a tie, garranteeing at least one contestant they think they could beat again

Charles Lumia there was a three way tie

I think I remember that episode - it was fairly recent, right? - pretty crazy. Is that why they changed the way ties work?

The "no ties" rule was instituted in 2014.

Charles Lumia

the change came because it was cheaper to have only one winner ;-)

They do it in case they win. If you win you get $X+1, which makes it that much more likely to be higher than the others. If you lose you probably won't win anyway.

First place bet enough so that if she got it right, she would be ahead of second place by $1 if she went all in and was right. It's a very common strategy. Second place strategy is often to just go for the doubling, but not always. Moreso done when third place is a non-factor. Though the second place strategy can get a little more weird when 3rd place is competitive or in certain range relative to the other other players and can use that to influence as wager. But no, betting ____99 would be a bad strategy. If you're in first, you generally go for an amount that guarantees you the win

@@db9944 In this case, in which 2nd place could not be caught by 3rd place, 2nd place should have bet $0. That way if 1st place gets the question wrong you win, because 1st place has to protect their position with a wager. If 1st place gets the question right, you lose no matter what you bet. So you better put yourself in position to win if 1st place is wrong.

To prevent people from intentionally betting for ties allowing both (or all three) to stay on. You could in theory, have three contestants agree to always get the last question wrong if in first or second place, and bet enough so that they all end up with the score of the third contestant. Then continue this forever. Also, each time that there was a tie, they had to pay out the full amount to each player, not just the winner.

Don't know about the huddling, but you're right that the shows are edited. Back in the days when they were broadcast live (at least on the East Coast), the inability to edit sometimes led to problems. Apparently on a late 50s episode of "What's My Line?", their "mystery guest" was Ted Williams, who was playing in a game against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. The game ran long, and he damned near didn't make it (apparently, he ended up buttoning his shirt while he was walking from the "green room" to the actual studio, and didn't have time to put on a tie before he was announced). And I've read that Judy Garland cut it closer than that. In the final episode, they announced that, in an emergency when a mystery guest couldn't make it, host John Daly would have been the mystery guest (which he was on that final episode)

Ted Williams never wore a tie.

50's...that was at the time of the quiz show scandals. And the show itself was *after*.

It's not the first tie on Jeopardy you dumbass, they just changed the rules. Previously, if there was a tie all tied contestants won, got to keep the money and moved forward to the next show. Several contestants have purposely created ties as gifts to other contestants.

Man why do people keep thinking it's the first tie ever. It literally says first tie breaker. How can there be not a tie for the past half century that this show had been around. There has even been triple ties.

Joe Schmoe hey I don’t watch Jeopardy, how am I supposed to know they changed the rules. I just expected a little bit more emotions.

Drunken Master II Alex hardly ever shows emotion. Pretty sure he's dead inside lol

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It was announced in 2014 and Jeopardy.com officially confirmed the rule change in 2016

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They probably stopped tape for a few minutes while they sorted it out.

That's the way it used to be. The tie breaker likely saves them money.

Joey M Yea that's right in the title

They should not have tie breaker. They are so boring.

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Narm That was the second day of a two-day final in teen tournament play. Jeopardy! Tournaments have always had tiebreakers. Up until recently, in regular non-tournament play, if contestants tied, they were declared co-champions and both (or all three) returned on the following broadcast as returning champions. Co-champions are impractical in tournament play as they have an absolute end date and a fixed grand prize. This is, in fact, the first tiebreaker in regular non-tournament play.

Exactly. Tournament play: you need a decider. Normal play: who gives a damn? But then again, I saw where even Wheel (same distro, same creative genus, same... you get it by now) has a mechanism like this. In one game I watched awhile back, in the lightning round whrere it's "puzzle after puzzle until "ding ding, final spin" ended with a contestant matching up with another to the tune of $25K. To settle the matter, Pat and Vanna popped a toss-up worth an extra $1,000 and the win. This is the same basic idea - two-way tie (or all three), toss another category, pop the clue and whomever gets it first takes the cash and comes back. It hasn't been used like this outside of tourney play until now, but then again we didn't have "winner stays, loser pays" for all that long before Ken Jennings showed up. EDIT: I should also note that even tourney play has evolved. I saw a watch mojo once here on youtube where they did a "ten big Jeopardy! fails" and the top pick was a triple goose egg'd final in tourney play... and no winner by extension so nobody to advance forward. (Cue Gene Wilder (RIP) to reinforce the OUCH factor.) With tiebraker systems you have less of a chance to see it happen like that, but when the "triple goose egg" hit and Mr. Trebek had to break the bad news, they probably didn't have it refined to where it is now... or something to the effect. Maybe it's the positive score rule also playing a part? I know not... but in this case there actually WAS something to fight over so that made a load of difference here.

No, you also have to ask the correct question.

No I agree. I literally watched it and said that's bullshit out loud. What a shitty way to end a tie by pushing it first. They should of each had to shotgun a beer. The first person who finishes gets da W

Michael Allen So they had to play the game of jeopardy to win the tie-breaker of jeopardy? That's crazy!

That's jeopardy...

You realize that's how the whole game is played, right? Or did you think contestants just got to answer at random?

There was at least one other in the regular game series.

dzima7 I agree with you. As co-champions, they had a full additional game to battle out the true victor. By comparison, this seems rushed, luck of the draw, and even a bit contrived.

I agree

3 people enter. One 1 person leaves.

No participation trophies in jeopardy

Especially since no one got final Jeopardy correct .

HENRY THE RC CAR The third contestant didn't tie for the lead. Her loss is crystal clear with her alone at dead last. She entirely failed to earn a shot at the tiebreaker. This was totally fair.

+Robert What? The third contestant was a guy. The comment referred to the other woman who was tie, not the contestant who was third.

Robert J. Holtz hmmmm well did you notice that the last answer was incomplete. "Who is, May?" Shouldn't she have said, who is Theresa May?

It's how the game works have you never watched Jeopardy before? Why would they have to extend the program for another 5 minutes just for a tiebreaker???

Jobbernowl i think it would have been more fair.

I didn't know the answer, and I'm older than two months.

Day Drunk It's quite politically charged too. I'm not a brit, why was her snap election less than brilliant?

Yeah they obviously didn't want to go to a double tie breaker.

PolarTechie It was less than brilliant because May's Conservative party lost seats in Parliament to their opponent Labour party.

Not true. My nana died in 2018

John Smith that's Alex Trebek, he never flinches

Not even close to being rigged. There are extremely strict rules in place due to the quiz show scandals from the mid 1950's.

Jeopardy isn't rigged, there are lots of controls in place, and people can go to jail for rigging gameshows. Additionally, editing that doesn't change the outcome of the game is allowed. I'm sure they stopped tape before the tie-breaker clue, to explain the rule and to let Alex end the show... The producers only have so much time to have for a game.

*NOT RIGGED! If it were, they'd be off the air!*

I know... what the fuck? The tiebreaker is a politics question from 2017? Essentially _who was the Prime Minister of the UK in 2017?_ A question so recent that the answer is STILL THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE UK. The whole game and 10s of thousands of dollars comes down to... who can click a button faster. You can see the woman on the right pressing the buzzer a split second late and her disappointed look as she realizes she just lost.

agree but it has to be a TIME THING bc the music and the writing takes way too long They ended the show immediately after she buzzed in. It was kinda easy and annoying but it's rare.

Lmao what are you smoking, everyone immediately shuts the tv off once Jeopardy is over and Wheel of Fortune starts

Preach

Wheel of Fortune feels like gambling while Jeopardy feels like you actually have to have some brains. Which one you like more probably says something about the kind of person you are

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Anon1993 no its not everyone turns abc off when thats on lol

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Literally never heard of the Channel Islands. Not common knowledge unless you live near them, I imagine. Can't comment on how smart one must be to get on Jeopardy!, but it's not like you need to know every single piece of throwaway information ever to be allowed on the show.

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sviraman yeah I'm sure you would have made it to Final Jeopardy

It's not common knowledge, and it was never mentioned in any geography I've ever taken.

If you're British, that question is a slam dunk. But the final question about May is even easier.