[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the Thursday, October 19, 2023 episode of Jeopardy!]

The fruits of Jeopardy!‘s Champions Wildcard finals has arrived as gamers Josh Saak, Lucy Ricketts, and Sam Stapleton confronted off as soon as once more on the Alex Trebek stage for a shot at $100,000 in addition to a spot within the Match of Champions.

As viewers will recall, the three gamers competed in Wednesday’s recreation, with Lucy pulling in $14,200, Josh raking in $25,200, and Sam scoring $15,200. On this new recreation, their objective was to extend their rating by incomes extra on this second recreation for the biggest mixed complete which might then earn them the $100,000 finals prize.

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When it got here to e book designer and freelance illustrator Lucy, site visitors engineer Josh, and faculty guide Sam, all of them put their greatest foot ahead within the competitors, however there was one clear winner by the tip of all of it.

By the point Ultimate Jeopardy arrived, Sam’s rating was simply $5,000, Lucy’s was $11,600, and Josh’s was a powerful $22,000. Whereas these scores are notable, they wouldn’t be added to their Day 1 scores till Ultimate Jeopardy was tallied. The class was “Names,” with the clue studying, “The title Jennifer is an alteration of this title that in early Welsh literature belonged to the ‘First Woman of the Island.’”

The proper reply was “Guinevere,” which solely Lucy answered appropriately. Whereas she wagered $5,500, including to her rating for a Day 2 complete of $17,100. By combining that together with her Day 1 earnings, Lucy completed with $31,300, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient to edge out Josh whose two-day mixed rating totaled $47,200 as he didn’t guess any cash towards his Ultimate Jeopardy reply.

Sam didn’t guess any cash both, however his mixed rating of $20,200 was the third-place rating, touchdown him behind Lucy and Josh. As a result of it was the finals, nobody walked away empty-handed. Because the winner, Josh earned $100,000, with Lucy taking $50,000, and Sam incomes $25,000.

What did you consider the result of Jeopardy!‘s Champions Wildcard’s first spherical of finals? Tell us within the remark part, under, and keep tuned to see how the Championship continues to unfold.

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