Words, words, words.
“Danger!” Master Ben Chan’s nine-day winning streak got here to an end – all due to one misspelling.
Chan had a rough begin to Tuesday’s episode, losing $42,000 on the Day by day Double tip, putting him in a very close contest with retired museum teacher Lynn Di Vito.
But Final Jeopardy blew his possibilities of continuing his record-breaking streak as the primary rider to win nine consecutive breakaway wins and increase his winnings total to $252,600.
He had a strong lead in Final Jeopardy with $17,400, while Di Vito had $14,800 and political communications manager Joe Leserman with $2,400.
The category for “Ultimate Threat” was “Shakespeare Characters” and the clue was “Each names of those two lovers in Shakespeare’s play come from Latin words meaning ‘blessed.'”
Technically, all three contestants got the right answer, but Chan, who bet $12,201, was only flawed by one letter when he ruled that there was no correct answer.
The proper answer was “Beatrice and Benedick”, but Chan wrote “Benedict”.
Game show viewers were outraged by the top of Khan’s reign, saying he was “robbedand took to social media to precise his disappointment.
“Awful ruling against Ben Chan in today’s #Jeopardy,” someone tweeted.
“Since when does a single-letter mistake count in the ultimate jep? He couldn’t have had another character in mind.” he wrote.
“Lynn didn’t finish ‘Juliet’, but that is considered a complete (albeit incorrect) answer, and Ben spelled Benedick one letter and is taken into account incorrect. They obviously knew what he was getting at and still ended his run on account of terrible technique.” – fan indicated.
“The thing I hate about #Jeopardy is that if Ben had said this answer, he would have done it appropriately, but it surely was flawed to jot down it. This inconsistency has all the time pissed me off.” He admitted.
“Ben Chan got robbed at #Jeopardy – I knew the ‘K’ in ‘Benedick’ would spoil someone!” other he exclaimed.
“Really? You kicked Ben due to a spelling mistake? If it was a verbal answer you would not know he couldn’t spell it. Ben got robbed. Embarrassing” – one other fan he noticed.
“Wait, what just happened on Jeopardy! Are you kidding me that you simply took Ben away for technical reasons??!!” user he wrote. “There have been other Final Jeopardy answers with spelling errors which were accepted. This has recently turn into a very inconsistent policy. Collect it. Bring Ben!”
Many fans in “Danger!” subreddit called the ruling “harsh”, and one even quoted the official rules of the sport, to note“If Ben had ignored the last letter in his reply to FJ, it will probably have been accepted because it will have been pronounced the identical way as if it had been spelled appropriately.”
“Oh, my heart aches for Ben. Thanks for all the nice times! See you soon in ToC!” one person he wrote.
Chan himself even chimed in on the subreddit thread admitting that he was actually incorrect in his answer.
“1. Lynn played a wonderful match! Especially lucky for her because she is a particularly knowledgeable fan of the show. “Benedict” is flawed. The character’s name is Benedick. As Ken (prophetically) identified in my first episode, there isn’t a partial credit for Jeopardy! (Yes, I used to be very close!),” he wrote. “3. I made some bad flashcards. The misspelling of “Benedykta” is common and has found its way into several of my index cards.”
Chan could have ended his nine-day streak, but he may have a probability to redeem himself by making it to the 2023 Tournament of Champions.