on January 9, 2026, 19:41:56, in reply to "I was going to also mention that Holzhauer radically changed game play as well"
He’d often be up 10k on people before they’d had a chance to even settle their nerves. Game was already over.
It was like a jeopardy blitzkrieg. 
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My wife and I are religious watchers of Jeopardy! The game has definitely evolved over time in the stragegies that people implement and execute to maximize their chance of winning. Previous Message
People latch on to things like this in their preparation, like when daily double hunting all over became a thing after Holzhauer. Previous Message
name Matt Ammodio. He won 38 consecutive games, the third longest streak in history. He had a very specific way of answering questions, where he would say "what's' instead of "what is" and he would almost always answer with a last name only. He popularized this strategy, the logic being that it reduces your chance of error of saying the wrong first name, since it's not required. So yeah, it's very much a thing now. Previous Message
Is it a recent meta not to include a first name when the answer is a person? Pretty much every one so far has been surname only.
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- IlliniSax05 January 9, 2026, 19:17:37