This dad/son duo don’t always show up to Bar Jeopardy! but, when they do, they seem to always get 1st place (and win the $25 gift card).
Multiple teams who frequent the game each week have started to notice that this particular team in question has repeatedly outperformed other players by a substantial margin. Their ‘knowledge’ would span anything from pop culture, to 90’s RnB, to obscure renaissance history, making it nearly impossible for us laymen to hold a candle to their performance. And so, we succumbed to their expertise each time they showed up.
This week, things finally took a turn. The stars aligned so that the culprits were sitting perfectly in our eye-view for this week’s questions. After submitting our own team’s answer, we looked over and saw this team using a search engine and I captured it on video. Looking back, the scores should have spoken for themselves. Now they’re banned.

Featuring my homemade dress that says “SOLVING PUZZLES IS MY PASSION” in nautical flags, Braille, semaphore, Morse code, and ternary! :)

Yesterday evening I participated in the 50-question live Zoom test, after taking the Anytime Test a few weeks ago. Just 45 minutes (!) after the Zoom test ended, I got an email inviting me to the next round, the Game Play audition. But I didn't see the email until a few hours later, and by that point, all the audition slots were filled. Will I still get to audition? Has this happened to anyone else?

The email said you should send a reply if there were no available slots that fit your schedule, so I wrote back letting them know. The email also included an application to fill out, as well as a request for a photo, so I sent those both in.

I definitely was not expecting an email invite so quickly. At the end of the 50-question Zoom, the moderator said we might hear back anytime between "tonight" and a year from now. I didn't think I would actually hear back that night! This was my second time doing the 50-question Zoom. The first time, I never heard anything more, so I'm further along than I've gotten before.

DD1 - $600 - MOVIE-INSPIRED SLANGUAGE - A 1944 film title popularized this word, to mess with someone's mind to push them toward insanity

DD2 - $1,200 - GEOGRAPHY - Tallinn isn't in this country but sits on the gulf named for it

DD3 - $1,600 - WE LOVE A PARADE - For 19th century Irish Americans, St. Patrick's Day parades were a show of strength against the anti-Catholics of this "dim" party

Correct Qs: DD1 - What is gaslight? DD2 - What is Finland? DD3 - Who were the Know Nothings?

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So, we record the show and are a few days behind . Tonight we started our next episode (#30) expecting to see Anthony Cantor trying to become a 5 day champ. However it was an older episode (that we've seen) showing instead. When we then started the next episode (31) it had a new returning champion (Shannon). Can anyone explain what happened?

Alex's memoir, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life, is currently discounted to $1.99 at U.S. ebook retailers. Just grabbed a copy and thought I would pass along! If you've already read it, interested to hear your thoughts.

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I'm just going to vent a little bit about JBL changing the rules for this season. Most of you probably don't care, but this is probably better to vent to than the geekswhodrink subreddit.

The big change this season vs last is that total score is the deciding factor vs. winning your game that week (and total points was the tiebreaker). They also allow you to play multiple times during the week to improve your score, with only the highest scoring day count, and you can drop your two lowest scores during the 10 week season.

This has basically turned into "who can play the most during the week?" The current top team has played JBL 22 of the 24 available days this season. With any strategy thrown out the window, you just bet everything on every daily double and hope you get it right. The rules are also inconsistent between venues. Even if you are the quickest to turn in the answer, some hosts try to (or are told to) "spread the control around" and will give up control of the board to other teams. When getting daily doubles late in the rounds is the optimal way to maximize your score, this inconsistency in applying this rule across all venues really matters in the final standings. Not to mention that two of the top 3 teams are in Austin, TX who have access to games 7 nights of the week, which no other metro area has.

Last season wasn't perfect, but it was more in the spirit of Jeopardy. Winning is most important, and score is secondary.

When you're at a party, and raffle tickets are sold or given out and when they call the winning number, do you yell out fixed fixed fixed when you're not the winner?