Sayonara, Season 42
An excellent, indeed historic year of Jeopardy!, ends on a down note
Syntactic Reversal
This is the home for Matt Carberry's writing about Jeopardy!.
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Jeopardy! and the World Cup
In two days, the 23rd quadrennial edition of the world’s preeminent sporting event gets underway.
The 2026 Winter Olympics
Back to “Tea Leaf Reading 101”
Friday’s Exhibition Game
The episodes wasn't ideally positioned — to say nothing of it being a dud
The Jeopar-verse in 2026
A look ahead to the year that is already 3.5% in the books
Season 42, Week 13
Monday, December 1
Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2025
They're the most preempted days of the season
The Impact of Inflation on "Jeopardy!"
On Tuesday evening, pundit and Slow Boring author Matthew Yglesias made a throwaway remark: “We need to talk about the nominal stagnation of Jeopardy prize money.” I threw out a few numbers that evening and a few graphs the following morning; here’s all of that and some more.
It's "Selection Monday"
We 'll know who makes up the rest of the postseason field later today
Those Four Charts
I've finally gotten around to writing them up. And added two more.