The latest episode of Jeopardy! aired on October 29, 2024, and featured Ian Taylor, one-day champ alongside two new players. They were John Liu and Aimée Record. During the game show episode, a newly emerged player made a few mistakes in phrasing the question/ clue, which fans and viewers noticed.
While John made the mistake, twice, the show host also corrected him, the first time. John Liu, a marketing analyst from California made mistakes while forming the clue in the required "question" format.
During the Daily Double, when the correct answer was "What is a claw machine?" he only shared, "Claw machine?" For that, his answer was ruled correct, but with a reminder from the show host.
"Remember your phrasing, John," shared Ken Jennings.
Referring to John's mistake, fans shared their views on the situation and discussed how he should have formatted the correct way.
Elvisoti wrote,
"I was genuinely appalled at the quality of clues, category gimmicks, and overall board composition today. Sure, some of the clues that went dead should have been in one of the three players' wheelhouses, but most of them were either really difficult or phrased in a very puzzling manner. FJ, however, felt like a freebie for anyone who took high school Spanish or any other Romance language."
It continued,
"John's misphrasing on that DD made me cringe (with the utmost sympathy) and I congratulate him on his ability to claw back from this unfortunate error."
Another Jeopardy! fan Brosbeforetouhous shared,
"The gimmicky wordplay categories have gone too far. "All of these should have shake in the answer but you can't say shake" is just getting silly. Also the drama category. Woof. I was worried the whole thing would go dead."
Another Reddit user, JquailJ36 wrote,
"If Ken has to warn you without someone making the error about saying too many words, it is a badly-written category designed to trip players up."
One more Jeopardy! fan WaterTower11101 described it as "uncomfortable,"
"It was really unpleasant/uncomfortable to watch."
Transit-mappr commented,
"I think future players need to take a reality check before going out on stage and realize that, unless they know the categories down pat, they shouldn't bounce around and hunt for DDs. If they don't know the categories, they'll only run down their score and it absolutely kills the pace of the game."
One more fan, Politterateur shared,
"Yeah, I didn't have too much trouble with the board either (41 correct responses and $30,000 Coryat are slightly below my average this season), but I still thought the shake category was a bit too contrived."
Signiference described the episode as,
"Absolutely miserable watch all around."
Aimeeheath teased and wrote,
"Aww come on, you must've cracked a smile when I said, "What is your booty?""
Signiference commented,
"Not from the contestants, just the categories and questions. Especially the prefixes category, it took me until time was up to even decipher what the "answer" was getting at, let alone figuring out the "question." Writers were in some kind of way putting these together. And yes, the word booty always merits a smile, especially on jeopardy!"
Limegreencupcakes wrote about the clues,
"I watched this whole episode just like "WTF even are these clues?!" Then I immediately thought, "Ooooh, I bet r/Jeopardy has Things To Say…" This subreddit came through way harder than those boards."
Jeopardy! episode October 29, 2024: John Liu's mistakes
For Jeopardy!'s latest episode, one of the participants, John Liu, was seen making mistakes while sharing his answer in the "clue/ question" format.
After he got a gentle warning from the show host, the first time, he made another mistake. The second mistake was when the correct answer during the second Daily Double, when the question was,
"Broca's & Wernicke's are 2 types of this condition in which language use & speech are impaired."
For that, John answered, "Aphasia" which was correct but not phrased correctly. Since it was his second mistake, the host ruled it as a wrong answer.
"I'm sorry, no, you forgot your phrasing, John. 'What is: Aphasia.' So important," shared Ken Jennings.
Fans took to the social media platform Reddit and shared their views on John Liu's mistakes. Some of the fans shared how they felt the episode was "comfortable" to watch.
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