


This was the case in her 35th consecutive victory, when even losing $20,000 through an incorrect guess on the name of France’s national theater award (the Molière) wasn’t enough to change the final outcome. Her domination in her games is clear and consistent: She typically stays on top of her opponents throughout the first round, widens the gap throughout Double Jeopardy, and enters Final Jeopardy at a point where a correct or incorrect answer truly doesn’t matter. Schneider needed 28 games to achieve half of that.īut if these wagers are working for Schneider, there’s certainly no reason for her to stop. Holzhauer, for example, only needed 27 games to pass the $2 million mark. Schneider is also more conservative with her wagers than other elite champions.
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An analysis on r/Jeopardy using data from the fan-created J! Archive shows that while Amodio might have gotten more questions right per game than Schneider, she has gotten fewer questions wrong. And Rutter, who first appeared on the game show in 2000 and most recently appeared in 2020, remains the tournaments-included money champ.Įach of the champions has their own style, which has been noted by fans.
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Holzhauer, a professional gambler, won more money in a single game of Jeopardy! than anyone else with $131,127.

Jennings, whose 2004 run has become the stuff of legend, still owns the “most consecutive games” and “regular season winnings” categories with his 74-episode stint and $2,520,700 prize winnings. Between the four of them, they owned the top three spots in Jeopardy!’s four categories of success: consecutive games won, highest winnings in regular season play, single-game winnings, and all-time winnings including tournaments, the show’s equivalent of a postseason. Until Schneider’s run, the pantheon of Jeopardy! domination has been limited to four masters: Jennings, James Holzhauer, Matt Amodio, and Brad Rutter. She’s described the game show as her “Olympics,” explaining to Jennings that “I’m not going to be this good at anything else, probably.” It’s hard not to be charmed by Amy, who apparently hypes herself up before every game the same way I did before high school basketball games: thinking about the lyrics to “Lose Yourself” by Eminem. Treasury secretaries, kicking off a run which has lasted well into the new year. But Schneider was the only contestant who correctly identified Manhattan as the burial place of Alexander Hamilton and other early U.S. 17, 2021, when she went into Final Jeopardy behind five-day champ Andrew He. Schneider’s run started with a come-from-behind victory back on Nov. That’s certainly the case for Jeopardy! contestant Amy Schneider, the Oakland, California-based engineering manager whose 39-game winning streak is the second-highest in the show’s 56-year history.Īnd funnily enough, the contestant in first place, Ken Jennings - whose 2004 run wrapped after 74 straight wins - was the one hosting as Amy made new history.
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It feels like a victory for the regular folks, getting to go out on TV and dominate with a secret power they can reveal to the whole world. There’s nothing quite like a game-show winning streak.
