Nine contestants have become “super champions” so far this “Jeopardy!” season. Is the game getting easier or are the players getting smarter? Or are we asking the wrong question?
, he said he and his staffers have wondered “whether this is some kind of ‘new normal’ or whether we’ve just had an unusual windfall of brilliant ‘Jeopardy!’ players.”published stories in early January during Schneider’s run about the winning streaks, suggesting that contestants now have more resources to prepare — thanks to Reddit threads, YouTube clips of old episodes, and in-depth websites like J! Archive and The Jeopardy Fan.
Then there are wilder, eyeroll-inducing theories, one of which speculates that producers secretly show contestants questions in advance or that categories are aligned to help certain players. Long, whose episodes aired in May and June, recalled a viewer sending him some sort of “crazy statistical analysis” on Twitter that implied a conspiracy was afoot.“I felt it was goofy, and at the time when I saw it, I also felt a little insulted,” Long said.
happened to come up. “It’s like, oh, all of a sudden we’re the benefits of a conspiracy instead of actually being really smart and having those kind of skills,” he said.
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