Film Theory: How One Man BROKE Jeopardy! (Jeopardy is Rigged Part 1) 

Exactly what I was thinking lmao

Soh Rijin jeopardy that we played at school during a class

You're not wrong.

Lol he’s really not wrong, now when I go on a streak I’ll feel like the kid version of this guy

LMAO yES

Yep

Yes.

Yeah a few of my teachers in high school did that

Yes.

Yea, but it never worked right

I mean, its just logic. Knowledge = more money. Betting on the big bucks and stuff, switching categories, and all of his tactic would mean absolutely nothing if he didnt spend a year learning trivial stuff.u can have and use all tactic u want, but if u aren't doing good with that trivial stuff, you'll just lose the game.

Not just more knowledgeable, but also a fast technique for the buzzer.

Yeah, even just about three years later, you can already see that others are using his strategies, starting at the bottom and jumping between catigories.

I used his strategy for a jeopardy review game in science class, though I modified it so that I start at 600/800 and only go for 800/1000 that early in the game if I'm really that confident with the topic I feel like everyone caught on to what I was doing and was trying to emulate it themselves so it was basically fair game all around lol

🧍Have I seen you before???

RIP Alex Trebek

Hello 👋 there

Alex Trebek is dead?!

@@kyler32291 yea, unfortunately he passed away in 2020

Kind of like that thing at the start of Mario Kart races where you gotta hit the gas at _just the right moment_ when the 2 shows up to get the boost.

@@hannibustoogfyrre6074 If I could only count how many times I was close to turning off the game from rage when I was younger.😂😂😂

Actually its a quarter second

He was probably practicing at home with a pen and a timer

James is a badass.

Way to spoil pt 2 of this video... azzhole

Man he has no way of knowing what next vid will be so why insult someone who has no idea if what he’s saying is a spoiler and nither do you

It's an extremely well known bit of his tactic. It'll very likely be in the next part. But either way, telling someone they are "not considering" something when you know there is more to come is kinda rude.

@huhhman But some combinations of category and number have statistically a higher chance of beeing a daily double, idiot

@@joaobispo2602 which ones?

why would he get a jeopardy job tho?

@@whydoiexist2180 check his most recent video on film theory and gtlive

Oh yeah

Anyone know if he got a run as a jepordey host?

@@theautisticintrovertedluca3634 If not, he should also serve as a co-host for Ken.

Underrated coment

¿Por qué no los dos?

The answer is yes

He uploads to both xD

Well it was a tv show

It's highly likely he still has a very strong memory.

So I originally started this post with the sentence "The interesting thing is you don't need an encyclopedic knowledge of all topics for jeopardy." I read the phrase in your post metaphorically as it was probably meant - an in-depth repository of knowledge of an impossibly large number of things all in one place. Except now after writing the whole explanation as to why that's not necessary, it's now hit me that 'encyclopedic knowledge' is EXACTLY what you need for jeopardy, because encyclopedias actually don't go into a ton of detail. They are good sources for a wide amount of knowledge but don't really get super deep - and that's exactly what you want to be a jeopardy champion. I read a bit about it back when Ken Jennings was the god-tier jeopardy player people were discussing, but it turns out an in-depth knowledge of the topics would actually be detrimental. See since jeopardy is ultimately about getting ratings and keeping people watching they want to make the audience feel smart (but not too smart). Notice how when you're sitting watching a game of jeopardy you can usually answer two or three questions on the board? That's by design - they want EVERYONE to have that experience. From all walks of life. at least some of the time. The questions are thus tailored to what 'the average person might know' about that topic - since there's so many topics most people won't know most questions, but since the answers don't require super in-depth knowledge most people will know at least one of the questions. Jennings actually created an algorithm to quiz himself this way as preparation, to cover what 'average people know' about every topic under the sun. This is also hinted at in this video when MatPat mentiond James Holzhauer's method was studying childrens books. That is an AMAZING method of cutting through the nonsense extra technical knowledge to get only at stuff that might actually be quizzed on the show - no one is going to bore a child with the extra stuff, it'll be distilled to simple facts that everyone can understand. The exact kind of facts that'll be asked about on Jeopardy. TLDR: Jeopardy's not very deep. Focusing on casting your net of knowledge wide but shallow is the best way to become a god tier jeopardy player

@@GiftedContractor You absolutely hit the nail on the head. I do scholars bowl/quiz bowl at my high school (which is basically jeopardy but in a team of 4) and the parents marvel at how much everyone on these kinds of teams knows. But it's actually really easy if you cast your net wide, know the "bullet points"/"buzzwords" of topics, and systematically repeat things to get them in your head.

Omg that was such great moment! So funny XD

Watching that video is the reason this one landed on my recommended feed 3 years later 😂

Miles Lambert except for Emma boettcher

Hahahahaha wow good one

Good point...😂

No! I meant cake!

CAKE! I MEANT CAKE!

How? I am curious.

@@TobyGreenough close to his body with his other hand on his wrist to prevent unnecessery movements that causes response delay

@@TobyGreenough As coolbond2 said, he holds one arm with the other to hold it still. If you watch other players, you'll see their hand moving in a sort of upwards motion before they push the button, this adds a delay to the press.

Wow

@@Coolbond2 I've seen several players do this before. I always wondered if it was strategic or preference.

Kahoot better

this discussion occured in my class like 3 weeks ago

and quizizz

@@borisvanderhof3028 EVERYBODY FREEZE NUMBER ONE!!!!!

Maria Victoria I saw so many high school boys get so mad if they got a kahoot question wrong, I almost couldn’t believe it

@Saran The Wrap God Kaji after meeting Usugoi in a nutshell ahahaha

A bag of chips episode 1 kaiji and isuku midoria are the same. They just cry

Me an intellectual: Is cain from the game the binding of isaac

Kakegurui

Read "Liar Game", that thing is awesome

Pfft. Over 70.

Me:(starts falling up the stairs from rushing)

Bonus points if they're the Joker stairs

ender tube2121 help He’s fallen and he can’t get up

this is such a pure comment i couldn’t help but to like 😭

Bella Martel Me too

Connor O. Also petscop

Completely agree!

I'd rather it be on more interesting topics, but yeah; Real world topics are nice.

He is truly a gifted big brain boi

I guess he was smarter than a 5th grader.

I totally used that strategy every time I played classroom Jeopardy.

Is this a comment with almost no replys but 1k likes?

@@Lacie9 yes sometimes people don't have much to add but still resonate with a comment, so they only like

Also read the Michael Larson playbook of preparing beforehand.

And a bit of chemical warfare...

Right!

He read sun tsu's the art of jeopardy

I understand this

Get better, that's how you win.

[No Name] please

MillionaireTheory

I like your name

Manu Saraswat ok boomer

What are you watching where the ads think you find being able to break toilets a more appealing quality to have instead of...well

“This woman used bla bla bla to reduce her wrinkles” scientists hate her”

Explosive diarrhea

He tried to flush a fish. The fish was a carp.

Edp

The questions are all easy so you just go for the highest valued ones first

E

Yup

I thought I was gonna be smart and be the first to bet high but EVERYONE bet the highest

Yeah, the teachers don’t seem to understand increasing difficulty...

Poop

@@nicksalazar2239 Profound.

Amazin'

Problem is that there are actually 6 categories, not 5

5 monetary 6 topic

Me too.

Fair enough, the guy made more than enough anyway.

Pretty sure he's said multiple times that isn't the case

@@Flufayy And when people ask me how I'm doing I always say "I'm doing great". Just because someone says something doesn't make it true.

@@thesonofdormammu5475 It just doesn't make sense for him to lose on purpose, especially since the way he played indicated that he was still trying to win even when he was behind at the end.

@Cody Blackburn ^

Cody Blackburn your name pic is also the album by Metallica master of puppets

@@trollaf627 jeez you're a jerk. this guy said nothing mean and you just insulted him

James Bourne - Lmao ok boomer

You don't need a game plan when you're the best. Rainbow Six Siege taught me that

@@trollaf627 ok boomer

Disk out jiakoutemicik

Kat Holloway ine here for it to ngl

Im ok with it

I mean i own so much merch already might as well buy moreeeeee

😂😂😂

Or all his points went into his intelligence and luck stats.

In an RNG based game. Where the undefeated God of the world still has a 0.00000000001% chance of losing to the weakest piece of garbage. Considering he still lost his most recent game.

James was actually that OP OC character in that Naruto fanfic you know you read a few years ago on Wattpad (This is a joke)

Mr. Dank you can’t blame me tho 😂 some people on RU-vid really be thinking everything is true

ADSaaron he’s a TAS

Its actually much easier to learn from children's books as the information in them is written to be interesting, rather than reading an informational book on the same topic written for adults.

In children's books they tend to explain things in ways that are both memorable and informative. Like in a book for adults, it would explain the phases of the moon in long overly complicated sentences that are hard to remember and comprehend. Meanwhile in a children's book it would cut to the chase and just tell you what and how it happens in much less words and still make it memorable with pictures or fun descriptions. Lets think of it like this, are you going to remember a wall of text over-explaining how to tackle someone or would you remember a picture and simplified words better? Books for adults tend to over-explain the smallest of details and constantly leave you wanting instead of flat out saying what they mean. In other words, they use superfluous vocabulary that is inconsequential and does not pertain to the actual situation or subject at hand whatsoever. (They use pointless big words that are pretty much useless and doesn't actually help anyone.)

KRQE Central lol

how does someone earn 100 billion dollars off of letting other people sell stuff online

Knowledge = Power

Robert Chavez - I came in second. I “won” $2000. But since contestants have to pay their own expenses, I look at it this way: I won a vacation in LA and Las Vegas (where we went after the taping). Not a bad deal at all.

@@bunkie2100 would you go back on if you could?a whole fandom would have ur back😂😂

google says you were an actor in a soap opera

Great story! Who won your match?

Dude this is the coolest thing I read today. Thanks for taking the time to write it!

Right, we would always go for the highest money value first, but they weren’t always the hardest though

Shut up useless grass

How else would we play

@@drakox9603 you should shut up because he is right and jeez you are just useless if you keep bullying people when they are right

@@drakox9603 Where did *THAT* come from?

Shaggy: puny mortal

Shaggy is shivering because of James

*PLOT TWIST*

He was really using only 0% actually.

-100 percent

Guess it pays to be smart

Noobly Walker Yes, and if he was just a dude I was having a conversation with or who I overheard somewhere I wouldn't say anything. But he has a channel with 8 million+ subscribers and is using it to put up a video alleging a national game show was rigged. Huge accusations to a huge audience. You’d think he’d care enough to get the facts straight. The show has had six categories per round since 1964.

@mason jaspaul ok boomer

@@onnapnewo am I not seeing who you are replying to bc it looks like you were answering your own question. Idk if they erased it or not.

@mason jaspaul oh I see. Yeah I am a Rem fan for sure. My you tube, Twitter, twitch and discord names are all Remisbestwaifu I get alot of hate but idc

@mason jaspaul Same here. I think it is supposed to be in fall of next year bc Isekai quartet is spring or winter and they will not have any of the shows on there run through each other. Like Shield hero season two and I believe the Slime Isekai will be on there now

*glasses pushing intensifies*

So a strategist then.

He is.

too bad he was hired by NBC

Alex B. Hyuga Shikamaru

winner comment right here XD

five nights of freddy's? dont bully me i just wanna kno lol

『Den』 uwu 👍🏻

@@zxshadowxz thenk

I was kind of skimming over this comment and thought you were referring to fnaf as a game show, which would just be terrifying

Even worse, it was Megalovania. *NBC didn't know it, but they were about to have a bad time.*

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2MtOpB5LlUA.html 3:45

Contestanst

I'm still trying figure out how he broke the game!

Ikr

Except he’s the teacher

@Sam *_Insert quote about mediocrity_* Play big, win big, baby! (And lose everything when you inevitably lose)

Lol attacked.

He's if the Sims had Morrowind's facial expressions.

He's a better looking version of Simon Cowell.

He looks like someone who would kidnap someone

He's probably a robot trying really hard to fit in

He looks like a Phil Swift descendent-

Isn't it on ABC?

chico baber I’m not really sure. I heard him say NBC, that who I assume owns this

I think it airs on different channels depending on region. I live in Colorado and it airs on Fox.

NBC doesn't own Jeopardy. I think it's a Sony production and CBS owns the rights to air it. But it might air on different networks depending on local affiliate deals.

Interesting... never knew that

69 likes, you know I'm young.

This does NOT explain how _Jeopardy!_ is rigged. To get a better understanding to see just how deep it goes, learn a little about gematria, go here...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0LaAIp4o9lg.html and watch that video, following along by going to the 'gematrinator calculator' linked in the video's description box (check out the 'Tools' tab), and then read the comment section to find the connection to _Jeopardy!_ left there by yours truly.

@@FakeMoonRocks lol

I feel you

Everyone: i knew

He knew how much he had to stop at before he was placed into a higher Tax Bracket

My grandma was saying this the second he lost

Ok boomer

@@LunarianLoverSGB Boomer okay

Yako remoob

r/wokekids but for grandmas

Rip

Well, less kid theories

hmmm its video about game, washing mashine learning:so child content. oh gambling? ftc: got em boiz

except according to the very vague rules, this still counts as kid's content. fast cuts, bright colors and animated characters are all in this video, and that makes it not in accord to coppa

@@Ray_Vun season 3 of youtube demonetization finally premiered! let's see how this drama series ends this time.

All games of chance are rigged, games of skill, in theory, shouldn't be.

Jason that is so true except in the hunger games

@@elevation9123 which doesn't exist in real life, so your comment is absolutely useless.

Same

@@JasonT404 But Plinko is -- there's an article online saying they set it to always win once then then reset it to always lose. If they can do it with Plinko they can do anything on any show.

Or techno is the james on minecraft.

Pineapple Doubt impossible bc James lost and technoblade never dies

We call haks

TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES

Omg yes 😂

Because of your profile picture, I could feel sadness in this comment XD

@@amenaceofsociety7581 me, too lol

I think it *might* be a ripoff of another comment.

As a high schooler I still play as aggressively as possible for those 5 bonus test points

Basically yes

@Alex he's spoken on this basically his statement was that hed be an idiot to go back to essentially quit a job that pays 350,000 a day

His CAREER is ENTIRELY BASED on this perfection... so yes, he did.

@Alex I felt the same way, like he wanted to just go home to be with his wife and daughter. People who think that his 'strategy' of maximizing winnings is unique, but it's not. He just knows more answers than all the others who have tried it.

Exactly. Annoyed by that part of the video which suggested that James "was one of the first players" to start at the bottom. It's called a "Forrest Bounce" and regular Jeopardy watchers have seen the strategy used for many years now.

Well Barney broke The Price Is Right

I just got done finishing that show yesterday

Adam Ruins Everything: Jeopardy!

Like your profile. You got my sub

Shawn Heatherly I’m inclined to think it’s just clickbait and he’ll actually talk about the infamous case of 20 questions, a 1950s game show that did rig its games and how rigging games now a days is pretty hard to pull off.

Honestly, I feel like James probably just felt that he'd done enough. That's my bet on what MatPat's conclusion will be

@@dragonkyng you never know, it was on a well known tv channel, they have plenty of money, and could of told the usurper the anwsers

Michael Monroe mood

Relatable

Dude I just did this and randomly scrolled down and saw this 😂😕

Actually Alex Trebek liked him a lot!! I watch the show & you tell that he liked him. If the network rigged him, then it wouldn't be his fault.

Alex Trebek was probably the last person in the world to want James off of Jeopardy. I remember watching James’ run and I could tell by their interactions with each other that the both Trebek and James were having a blast. And considering that Trebek is suffering from pancreatic cancer, the fact that he was getting to witness such a formidable player again was probably very entertains for him.

Yeah, but it was a... Joke....

You almost killed me 😂... I was taking a drink of a rockstar and I choked 😂😂😂😂😂... you win 10 awesomesause points

James: exists Jeopardy: Not on my watch!

@@daniequezada6 😂 Our dude James, breaking the system.

I was confused when the day after he died, they put a new episode of it and he was there.

@@1vythesimp cause he filmed a lot of jeopardy before his death and they never aired it

@@tommyschoales5288 :0 I thought he came back from the dead

Honestly growing up watching him... I makes me so sad. Rip you wonderful man

it's really sad it's like a family member died

Mikhaila Kavanagh facts

Any chance your a mother?

Depends on your timezone, really. It's currently Friday evening here in New Zealand.

@@savvysamurai4810 same

Oh, lol..

Actually closer to 200 dollars.

Does that include games and the online subscription?

@@kiraramirez2776 jeapordy doesn't have an online subscription?

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