An Anatomy of the Worst Game in ‘Jeopardy!’ History

The winner won one dollar. How did this happen?

BY CLAIRE MCNEAR OCT 18, 2017, 2:17PM EDT

If you are a regular Jeopardy! viewer, you probably know that a dreadful thing recently happened. Austin Rogers, bartender from New York, winner of 12 straight games and $411,000, fifth-place all-time regular-season Jeopardy! earner, and moon of Alex Trebek’s life, was finally defeated. He lost to Scarlett Sims, of Tennessee, by a margin of $51; Scarlett then, having beheaded our beautiful nerd Hydra, lost on the next episode. So Jeopardy! is up for grabs, and the tides of Trebek’s life are once again stagnant, and yet still nothing could have prepared us for Tuesday night: the worst game in Jeopardy! history.