His strategy bucks “Jeopardy!” play tradition: He starts at the bottom of the board going for the high dollar clues, then searches for the Daily Doubles, instead of starting at the top of a category and working down. He is also very fast with the buzzer, often leaving his competitors stunned. By the time he gets to Final Jeopardy (here’s Friday’s clue) he has almost always put the game out of reach. If he continues to win at his current rate, Holzhauer would surpass Jennings’s dollar total in six more episodes, or in less than half the time it took Jennings to reach that amount. If Holzhauer wins as many games as Jennings did — he’d have to win 47 more — and continues to win at his current rate, he would amass more than $5.6 million.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2019 23:26 UTC