![]() She would later be surpassed in both categories by James Holzhauer, who won 32 consecutive games in 2019, and she would also be surpassed by Jason Zuffranieri in the cash category the same year, giving her the third longest winning streak and fifth highest total earnings in Jeopardy! regular play history.She trailed only Jennings (74) in number of games won and finished just ahead of Madden (19). Her third-place consolation prize of $1,000 was added to her winnings to give her a total of $429,100 – at the time, this was the third highest total earnings in Jeopardy! regular play history, only trailing Ken Jennings and David Madden. She finished the game in third place after wagering her entire daily total in Final Jeopardy! and failing to provide a correct response. On June 2, her run came to an end as she was defeated by challenger Brian Loughnane.She won $428,100 over 20 consecutive victories from between April 21 and May 30. She began her original run on April 21, 2014. ![]() All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2019 and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. She has been working since graduating from Wellesley College and getting her master's degree at MIT to pay off her student loans.įor now, it's prize enough to have friends and family referring to her as "champ." I'm actually very excited to have this chunk of money to invest with," Collins says. "I definitely will save and invest some of it. She appreciates having the gap to give her time to reflect and not do anything too rash. Jeopardy victors don't receive their winnings until four months after their show airs, so Collins won't get a check until at least September - and it will be less because of taxes. "Have I missed my moment for the bull market?" she jokes. Her final Jeopardy question is what to do with her windfall. So what is she going to do with the money? Jennings later appeared in a special Jeopardy game against IBM ( IBM)'s Watson computer along with Brad Rutter, the top money winner on Jeopardy. She even met Jeopardy's greatest player of all time once, Ken Jennings, who triumphed in 74 games a decade ago and amassed over $3 million in prize money. "By the time I really heard about Chu, I had already won five games, so I decided I didn't need to change my approach since it was working just fine," she says. His controversial "game theory" tactics where he bounced all over the board and made very specific wagers polarized viewers.Ĭollins says she examined the tactics of other winners, but decided to stick with her own style. The last Jeopardy phenom was Arthur Chu, who won 11 games and $297,200 earlier this year. She hopes her tweets help people understand what goes on behind the scenes. "I have the same experience everyone watching the show at home has: You're shouting the answer at the TV and thinking it's ridiculous a contestant doesn't know," she admits. It's addictive," she tweeted on April 30, the night she beat the female Jeopardy champ record. ![]() Sometimes I just like pushing the buzzer, I think. Her tweets range from the humorous (she admits to attending a cake decorating class and making a #nerdcake that says "This is Jeopardy!") to the self-deprecating: Collins started the Twitter feed to share insights on her episodes.ĬNN quiz: How well do you know 'Jeopardy?' Jeopardy games are typically filmed weeks, if not months, in advance, so Collins had to keep quiet about her champ status for awhile, but she's been making it up for it lately. "I had watched other women be really great players, and I played against women who were strong players, so I was surprised how few women become Jeopardy champions and have long runs," the 31-year-old supply chain management expert says.
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