Top 10 Best Jeopardy Players EVER 

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Idk why Jeopardy is so entertaining for me, I literally can only answer like 1 question every episode

The best is that guy who wagered damn near everything to intentionally give question: “We love you, Alex” instead playing the game... we’re done here

I say Austin Rogers is supposed to be mentioned or even an honorable mention. A bartender with a wide sense of knowledge. Yes!!! He is in the Top 10. 😉👍

Definitely. My great-grandmother first told me about Ken Jennings on the phone in the summer of 2004 during one of my summer trips to Ohio to see family. With 74 wins under his belt, plus participating in various tournaments, including The Greatest of All Time tournament, he has earned the title The Greatest of All Time. I've been a big fan of Jeopardy, Alex Trebek, and Johnny Gilbert for years also.

I have been lucky to have watched Jeopardy all 47 seasons. While this is a fun list, it doesn't include any players from the first 11 seasons from the Art Fleming years, when the questions were arguably harder. Also, it doesn't include many players from the era when you had to retire as a Jeopardy Champion after five games, and the questions were arguably harder too.

Ken Jennings better be on this list. I remember watching his whole original run.

Even though he didn't fare so well after the year he won the Tournament of Champions honorable mention shuld be given to the original superstar of Jeopardy Chuck Forrest.

James changed the game as evidence by the greatest of all time tournament ken was able to adjust to james' style of big bets but brad wasn't so i think james should be ahead of brad

There was actual trash talk with the GOAT Jeopardy. That was nice to see

I. Love. James. He’s such a pleasure to watch!

Yet another great list watchmojo. You for still keeping them coming❤️ In that best of the best tournament I felt my IQ had dropped at least 20 points. Hehe

I used to watch Jeopardy as a teenager with my mother and once scored $17k when I was 15 on the adult Jeopardy. Pretty proud moment.

James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings, and Brad Rutter are my favorite Jeopardy! players of all time! They are very amazing Jeopardy! players!

James is my fav, but I agree with the list

If I were to train my brain for Jeopardy!, perhaps Ken Jennings could be my coach, maybe even my opponent for practice games.

You should mention that Brad Rutter was restricted to 5 wins back when he played and the following year the prize money was doubled in the clues. Therefore he would have no chance for the longest winning streak and you could win a lot more money when the money in the clues was doubled.

RIP Alex Trebek

One little nitpick: Brad Rutter competed WAY before most people on this list. At the time, the clues were valued at half of what they are now, and a contestant would be forced to retire after 5 wins. Both of these rules changed in back-to-back years right before Ken Jennings started, allowing him a shot at much higher paydays, and a lot more of them. Rutter also has recorded a number of wins over Jennings as well. I still agree with the list (moreso now after the GOAT tournament), but it still is worth mentioning.

All I'm saying is Ken better be #1 Also the top 3 were hella predictable

I honestly would've put Brad Rutter at #3 and James Holzhauer at #2.

If Ken Jennings wasn’t number 1, this list would need to be redone.

Where Turd Ferguson at?...

I like how they are all dressed as cliche nerds.

Austin and James were my favorites

James Holzhauer deserves 1st, he created the ultimate strategy for beating jepordy and survived the strategy jepordy used to rid themselves of Ken jennings by making the games harder

“Who is the greatest jeopardy player ever?” Easiest question ever.

For the first time ever, I 100% agree with the list.

I like the video and the song! Thanks, Mojo

Is anyone actually surprised at who's in the top 3?

Arthur Cho might only get a honorable mention spot here, but he'll always be my #1 most unbearable ahole in the world.

Someone send this video to Alex Trebek! He’d love this

I'm guessing Watson's excluded for the sake of fairness towards human players.

How about a Top 10 Best Wheel of Fortune Players Ever or a Top 10 Best Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Players Ever? I would love to see either one, or maybe both!

1:50 James Holzhauer surpassed Ken Jennings with 2.7 million.

matt jackson was my favorite. during his streak, when he would be introduced. he would creepily put up his fingers to the what day he was on.

Ryan Fester was a joy to watch! It was a nail biter how he would seemingly lose and suddenly make a come back at the last moment.

Brad was totally the third wheel in Greatest of all Time

Dam James' creepy smile is creepy

"Go get my money like my names tommy". 😂😂😂😂 what shit

You'll have to do this again with new champ Matt Amodio!

Wow Jennifer Quail didn’t make the honorable mentions at least? I can’t wait to see her in the next tournament of champions!

There are 6 players who I'm surprised didn't make the Top 10 or not even considered: 1) Chuck Forrest: Chuck first appeared on the show in 1985 as a grad student. He won $72,800 and retired as a 5 Time Champion. He later won the Tournament of Champions in the next season. Chuck later appeared in 4 Jeopardy! Tournaments. (He also created the 'Forrest Bounce' always switching to a different category.) 2) Frank Spangenberg: Frank first appeared on the show in 1990 and retired as a 5 Time Champion with $102,597. That record stood even after the dollar values were doubled. Frank later appeared in 6 Jeopardy! Tournaments. 3) Eddie Timanus: Eddie is the first blind contestant that appeared on Jeopardy! He won 5 games at $69,700 and qualified for the Tournament of Champions. Eddie later went on to compete in 3 Jeopardy! Tournaments. 4) Robin Carroll: Robin first appeared on the show in 2000. Robin retired as a 5 Time Champion with $64,100. Robin not only won the Tournament of Champions but went on to win the last Jeopardy! International Tournament representing the USA. Robin had won the most money on Jeopardy! until Brad Rutter won the Million Dollar Masters Tournament. 5) Alex Jacob: Alex first appeared on the show in 2015 and won 6 games while picking up close to $150,000. Alex was also known to bet everything on Daily Doubles and was very dominant in the 2015 Tournament of Champions winning that as well. 6) Buzzy Cohen: Buzzy was always known for his good sense of humor and the funny responses he wrote for Final Jeopardy! especially when he had a lockout. Buzzy first appeared on Jeopardy! in 2016 winning 9 games and picking up close to $165,000 and later winning the 2017 Tournament of Champions. Those players could've made the list. Feel free to comment if I left anybody off.

Elise Berau is the very first five-time champ on Jeopardy! which should be on the list.

I would’ve been unbelievably shocked if Ken was not #1 and not pleasantly so.

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Ken is #1 to me also.

This show will never be the same, I kinda hope they just stop it in honor of Trebek but I know they probably won’t 😞

You might have to do an update video now that Matt Amodio is in second place for all time wins.

Matt Amodio: Hold my beer.

In their primes 1. Ken 2. Brad 3. James

I noticed from comments in various videos that James Holzhauer is the most liked even though he is number 3 in the ranking records. Even the contestants in The Chase do not want to him to be their Chaser. I myself can’t explain why I like him so much. Maybe his looks, the quirky smile or his humbleness.

wow, Eddie Timanus, the only 5-time retired blind champion was not listed here, a loss for anyone with a disability

I think that James should have been second because he was really close too ken in the greatest of all time and destroyed brad in everything.

top 3 is no surprise, James was the best!! i remember seeing James' run when i saw Hamilton (i saw it April 7th 2019)

The irony is Jeopardy had just changed the rule so that a player could play beyond a 5 game winning streak when Ken Jennings started his epic run.

I knew Ken Jennings would make it to the top

Jennings and James whipped Brad all over the studio. The Mt. Rushmore is those two, then Brad fetched them snacks

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Finding a player that actually has a pErsONAliTY on this show is rare

great show

Matt a was my favorite after James H and Austin R.!!

IBM Watson should've been somewhere on this list. Other than that it's perfect.

I really had no idea who would be first lol it's like me trying to figure out final Jeopardys answer lol I love this show not because I'm good at it but because I get to learn something and feel like a genius everytime I get two or three in a row lol bit seriously Jennings was a lock

How is Alex Jacob not on this list? Not only did he win the Tournament of Champions (defeating Matt Jackson in the Final), if I remember right, he was the first pick in the Jeopardy All-Star Games, so he was obviously recognized as a great.

I wonder who won the most money during the original run with Art Fleming with Don Pardo as announcer? Fun Fact: Don Pardo did a cameo in Weird Al Yankovich's parody song " I Lost on 'Jeopardy!''.

Mojo UK should do a video on British quiz winners, because I know there is at least one person, who has been several quiz shows. Also one of the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire winners now is one of the Eggheads.

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Roger Craig should have been a captain in the All-Star Tournament.

mojo, for Jerome Vered and Brad Rutter, even Spangenberg, any contestants before 2001, you should double their scores to relate how good they are for the values were all half at that point. and they had a 5 day limit til 2003

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Where's Burns Cameron from the original Art Fleming Jeopardy? He was a five time undefeated champion winning $7,070 and that years Tournament of Champions

I’m a little unhappy that Alex Jacob is not there. I mean I know he only won 6 games, but his 2015 ToC win and his successful daily double wagers are worth noting.

who's here after matt amodio would totally be on this list?

It’s always a crap shoot to rank players especially over the long time that Jeopardy has been on the air. For instance Brad Ritter played in the era that when you won 5 games you were off the show. So if he had been playing with today’s rules who knows how many games he would have won. And I believe that Ken Jennings said that he had never beaten Brad until the GOAT tournament. And in that, Ken had to adapt his playing style to James’. James on the other hand changed the way people play the game and 32 consecutive wins is nothing to sneeze at. All in all, I think the rankings are spot on. I think Emma Boetcher could have been an honorable mention.

Hot take: my theory is that Ken Jennings threw his last game because he was tired of winning

Well this needs to be updated

Man I love watch mojo, the ideas for videos are endless

Matt Amodio has entered the room.

No chuck forrest? Most of these people used a technique named for him....

I could marry #10 I love his absolute quirkiness and I thought he was cute. I also love #1 of course.

And now Ken Jennings is the host of the damn show! That dude is mad boss.

I was part of my school quiz bowl.

Now the top 3 are on the chase

If they did this video last year, Brad would have been chosen as #1. But he did so poorly in the GOAT tournament that they pretty much had to give it to Ken. Brad beat Ken 4 times up to then and was undefeated in his whole Jeopardy career, but Ken crushed everybody in GOAT so that's that. This lady who does the video says "Brad only had a 5 game winning streak" well no kidding, they were limited to 5 games back then!

Switch Brad and James and I agree with this list

How is frank spangenberger not an honorable mention

And some of them would have won more had the show not been restricted to five consecutive wins back then.

Is that Raynell Cooper? Winner of the 2011 Jeopardy Teen Tournament?

This needs to be updated. (Amy Schneider, Matt Amodio, Mattea Roach, etc.)

I agree with the list but my favorite was James🤗👨🏻‍🦼

There is a guy on there now on day 32 with winning of 1.2 million we need to update this list! :)

This list is GARBAGE for putting Brad above James. No way. James is clearly #2.

There is not even 1 mention of Bucktown Tiger in this list. But that is Watchmojo snubbing on the irl achievement of furries. And not only that but you placed Austin Rogers on the 10th spot. He is another one of my favourite contestants on that show. He should be at least number 2.

Are we going to see more players like this?

The rankings should be changed because of Mattea's 23 game run on the show.

Most of these guys competed recently based on video quality

Surprised that the most recent big winner Matt Amodio isn’t on the list

Ken only lost because he was tired of appearing on the show. LOL!

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