Holzhauer also aggressively went after the Daily Doubles and made big bets.
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Moreover, Daily Doubles are most often found in the bottom two rows.
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The questions so far have been GOAT-worthy, especially Rutter's Daily Doubles.
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Holzhauer also employed the strategies of hunting for Daily Doubles and bouncing between categories.
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Bounce around categories in search of Daily Doubles, to put that money to work.
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The hunt for Daily DoublesChu was also good at scouring the board for Daily Doubles.
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She frequently beat Holzhauer to the buzzer, and sought out Daily Doubles, a true Holzhauer protégé.
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In this tournament, Saunders said, success with Daily Doubles has led to victory in the match.
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In addition to getting Daily Doubles wrong, Jeopardy is a game of millisecond-level reflex response.
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The professional sports bettor also actively seeks out Daily Doubles, which often gives him an early lead.
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Although the 60 clues have a nominal total value of $54,000, three of them are "Daily Doubles".
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Just as important as finding and correctly answering Daily Doubles is finding them at the right time.
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"I only wish my nerve hadn't deserted me when I got Daily Doubles late in the game!"
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In particular, Holzhauer makes it a mission to seek out Daily Doubles, which helps him score early leads.
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He's a speed demon on the buzzer who regularly nails all three Daily Doubles with sky-high wagers.
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In his 22 games, Mr Holzhauer has uncovered 53 Daily Doubles and staked an average of nearly $10,000 on them.
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But Rutter has fallen behind early in games, often by missing Daily Doubles, leaving Jennings and Holzhauer to duke it out.
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However, delaying the hunt for Daily Doubles also increases the risk of failing to find them at all before one's opponents do.
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Typical contestants flub Daily Doubles about one-third of the time, but only four of Mr Holzhauer's 275 bets have gone wrong.
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"What bothers me is when contestants jump all over the board even after the Daily Doubles have been dealt with," Trebek said.
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"Jeopardy!" play now will be a race to the $1,000 clues, the high-dollar stacking and higher bets on the Daily Doubles.
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In the four matches, he found eight Daily Doubles, bet all of his points on seven of them and got seven right.
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Here are some guidelines to max out your results with daily doubles—without winding up injured, burnt out, or just hating the gym.
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But Boettcher, who had calculated her rate of accuracy with Daily Doubles while watching at home, felt confident enough to go all in.
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Then he homes in on the Daily Doubles, which allow a contestant to wager as much money as they have amassed on answering correctly.
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Each game, he went for the high-value clues first, hunted for the Daily Doubles, and when he found them, bet everything he had.
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Jennings had the most successful Daily Doubles in the first match and then went on to win; same with Holzhauer in the second match.
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He's hit on 53 out of the 66 available Daily Doubles so far, and he answered 49 of those correctly, according to the "Jeopardy!" website.
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He skips around the board looking for Daily Doubles, gobbling them up before competitors find them, in the process monopolizing all the high-value questions.
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Many contestants have likewise "fished" for Daily Doubles, which tend to be higher-dollar clues, and plenty of other champions have been known for betting big.
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Holzhauer's strategy boils down to this: Go for the high-value clues first, hunt for the Daily Doubles and, when he finds them, bet everything he has.
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Rutter, meanwhile, struggled at buzzing in, got many clues wrong, and repeatedly reset his score to zero with incorrect answers on Daily Doubles and in Final Jeopardy.
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Trebek said the streak record is "the tough part" because it's "easy" for contestants to win lots of money on the show if they hit the Daily Doubles.
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That slight difference, coupled with Jennings's 100 percent correct responses for the Daily Doubles he's hit tells the story of how the competition is going, though not why.
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The key to Jennings's victory on Tuesday, as it was throughout the tournament, was his willingness to bet large on Daily Doubles and his success in answering them correctly.
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With 57 questions up for grabs in each game—30 plus 30 less three Daily Doubles—Rutter has answered 10 to 12 questions for five of the six games.
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While the Forrest Bounce is typified by players who seek out the Daily Doubles first, Holzhauer makes the most of it by building up his total before he finds them.
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Most of James's strategies aren't new to the show — starting from the high-value clues at the bottom of the board, jumping from category to category, hunting for Daily Doubles.
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Rutter scored on two Daily Doubles in the third match, and Jennings scored on one, but it was the biggest of the night, giving him 9,200 points on one question.
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Although he is far from the first contestant to emphasise ferreting out Daily Doubles, few of his predecessors have been willing to bet the maximum—and risk losing it all—consistently.
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Mr Chu, a champion in 2014, parlayed run-of-the-mill success rates of 67% on Daily Doubles and 50% on Final Jeopardy into a 12-night run worth over $32.13,000.
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No scatter plot can fully capture Holzhauer's strategic chops; how he starts at the bottom of the board to amass a war chest and hunts down Daily Doubles like a bloodhound.
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As a result of applying that idea, Holzhauer chose the most valuable clues on the "Jeopardy!" board right away so he'd have more money to bet on the show's Daily Doubles.
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It has to do with Daily Doubles, the clues that let you wager your entire score—or up to $1,000 in the first round or $2,000 in the second round, whichever is higher.
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That allows him to bet more and, ultimately, win more: According to FiveThirtyEight's calculations, he had found over 83% of his games' Daily Doubles after Tuesday, and answered them correctly over 91% of the time.
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When the time came, he deployed his strategy in front of the cameras: He went for the high-value clues first, hunted for the Daily Doubles, and when he found them, bet everything he had.
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Rutter, the person who has won the most money in all of American game-show history, has managed to snag 50 percent of the 18 Daily Doubles across six games in the first three matchups.
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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.
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The champs&apos high totals were, in part, the result of how they played the game — knowing when to hit the buzzer, how much to bet on Daily Doubles, and which clues to knock off the board first.
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He hunts for the Daily Doubles This method also allows contestants to jump around the board and hunt for the hidden Daily Double tiles, which give them the opportunity to wager winnings with the prospect of drastically increasing their score.
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But the pro gambler's calculated strategy relied on hunting for Daily Doubles (which give Jeopardy contestants a chance to double their earnings) and betting big whenever he found one; this approach frequently helped him establish an early and outsize lead.
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Mr. Holzhauer goes straight for the high-dollar clues, builds up his war chest, and then finds Daily Doubles, for which contestants wager as much of their pot as they want — and has the guts to bet relatively high amounts.
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He's the closest this show gets to a tragic figure: the man with the longest history on this show coming back and falling short because he can't quite land the Daily Doubles he needs to compete with gamblers like Holzhauer.
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Check it out -- Austin even weighs in on who he thinks has an edge here among these titans of trivia, and it sounds like our boy, James, is in the driver's seat with his scattered approach in hunting for Daily Doubles ... and his go big or go home wagers.
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But in interviews, Mr. Chu said he was trying to keep opponents off balance, not trying to stack up money to make high-dollar bets like Mr. Holzhauer, who is fond of pushing his hands forward in his daily doubles bets as if shoving in all his chips.
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During their initial runs years ago, each man largely played like, well, you might if you were there: working from the easiest clues to the hardest, clearing out one category before moving to the next, and wagering a portion of their total on Daily Doubles rather than going all in every time.
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A "Daily Double" is hidden behind one clue in the Jeopardy! round, and two in Double Jeopardy! The name and inspiration were taken from a horse racing term. Daily Double clues with a sound or video component are known as "Audio Daily Doubles" and "Video Daily Doubles" respectively.
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In addition to the traditional daily doubles, Jep! also featured a "Jep! Prize" clue which awarded a prize such as a Game.com to the contestant who responded correctly.
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The Forrest Bounce is a somewhat common strategy, however, employed by several successful other champions including Brad Rutter and James Holzhauer who, like Chu, used it to increase their odds of finding Daily Doubles first. Inspired by Watson, a computer that was programmed to play Jeopardy!, Chu picked high-value clues first, because they are more likely to be Daily Doubles. In his second game, Chu wagered $5 on a Daily Double and responded "I don't know" immediately after the clue was given.
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Clue Crew, serves as an on-camera announcer. Howie Schwab serves as off-camera judge and consultant. Each category has only four clues (250, 500, 750 and 1,000 in the Jeopardy! round, with those values doubled for Double Jeopardy!) compared to five in the parent series, plus, like its parent counterpart, Daily Doubles, one in Round 1, two in Round 2.
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Unlike in the U.S. version, contestants have points (instead of money) added or subtracted for responses (or lack of) to questions selected, a concession made because of severe restrictions on game show prizes in the UK at the time. The original point values were 5 to 25 in the Jeopardy! Round and 10 to 50 in Double Jeopardy! There were three Daily Doubles in each round.
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