Yesterday looked like it shouldn't be tough but yielded few fourth podium wins. Today, I predict the opposite. Jeff's got $20,000 going into FJ, but he's totally catchable. All you need is $10,001 plus a get on this FJ. There's $15,000 in trash available plus you can argue you get another $1000 if you got dragonfly and thus feel entitled to the DD that came next. And if Jeff didn't get that DD, that sets him back $1400 at the end of SJ which has an unpredictable effect on his wager when he uncovers DD2 and misses which has a doubly unpredictable effect on how much he has to go all-in with on DD3, so forget that rabbit trail.
SCORES GOING INTO FJ
Jeff Weinstock: 20000 - missed FJ
Whitney Wood: 7600 - missed FJ
Andrew Lewis: 11000 - missed FJ CORRECT RESPONSES
JEOPARDY ROUND
SJ16 $800 THE DEVIL: dragonfly
SJ17 DD1 THE DEVIL: devil's advocate
SJ19 $200 MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE: Juliet
SJ21 $600 MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE: silence
SJ22 $800 MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE: Nora Ephron
SJ27 $600 YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED: the novel
DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND
DJ3 $2000 THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK: zipper
DJ4 $1200 MOUNTAINS: the Pennine Alps
DJ6 $2000 MOUNTAINS: Mount Kenya
DJ7 $400 IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: Earp
DJ8 $800 IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: The Boys
DJ10 $1600 IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: Chloë Grace Moretz
DJ20 $2000 IT'S ANARCHY: the draft
DJ30 $1200 PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY: Charles Dickens
DJ24 $800 MOUNTAINS: the Balkans
DJ25 $400 MOUNTAINS: the Rocky Mountains
$11,600 assuming I really would've rung in on Mount Kenya. I'm still not sure if I should count that. But If I do, I bet enough on FJ to pass Jeff and win the game.
$10,800 including $1,000 for the first DD, but no FJ so probably no good. (At least I made note of "admiral" while there was still time, unlike the Trafalgar FJ earlier this month.)
I wonder when other players at home consider the "4th podium" to you also include DDs that are missed by (of course) only one player. (I usually don't.)
But without those, in today's game I racked up $6,200 in LT plus sole get on FJ, not nearly enough to cover a fine job by the defending champ.
John Boy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:56 am
I wonder when other players at home consider the "4th podium" to you also include DDs that are missed by (of course) only one player. (I usually don't.)
I tend not to, but I like to put the option in when a DD comes right after a TS. It's not a clean fourth podium win if you need those points, but it can be fun to speculate. One variable, of course, is that you can't be sure that you would have chosen the same clue if you had gained control of the board.
If I count the DD for $1,000, I get to exactly $20,000. Fourth podium tie! (But actually, if we give DD1 to the fourth podium, Jeff presumably ends up with less than $20,000. Hypotheticals FT(4P)W!)
(Also got the devil's advocate DD but not counting that toward my score.)
That's $10,400. Went with the right half of the right quote for the win.
Oh, what has science wrought? I sought only to turn a man into a metal-encased juggernaut of destruction powered by the unknown properties of a mysterious living crystal. How could this have all gone wrong?