Website Reveals the Most Popular Locations of ‘Daily Doubles’ on a “Jeopardy!” Board

“Jeopardy!”(NEW YORK) — If you’re ever a contestant on Jeopardy! make sure to concentrate on the high-value squares — not just because you could win more money that way, but also because you have a better chance of landing a “Daily Double.”

The website Flowing Data, using information from the 30-plus-year history of the show’s current version collected by J! Archive, determined how likely it is to score a “Daily Double” on each square on the Jeopardy! board. Your best shot: the fourth box down in the first column. A “Daily Double” was there eight percent of the time.

About 38 percent of “Daily Doubles” were in that row.

Last year, Jeopardy! champ Arthur Chu annoyed many viewers by targeting high-value squares and trying to monopolize the “Daily Double” boxes.


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