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Chuck Forrest Can’t Recommend His Disruptive Jeopardy! Strategy to Everyone
“You have to be in a very dominant position in order to use this. People sitting at home might find it confusing.”
Instead of customarily descending from top to bottom in categories to receive clues, the attorney picked a random assortment from around the board in an attempt to disorient his opponents; the strategy, more recently pioneered by megachampion James Holzhauer, hinged on giving Forrest a minor time advantage due to being the clue-picker. Several years ago, Alex Trebek admitted that the strategy you pioneered bothered him: He believed the categories were constructed to be played going top to bottom and it’s not as advantageous if you bounce around. As I get older and slower on the buzzer — and the fact that I’ve now spent most of life living outside of the United States — I kind of felt like I was out of the loop with Jeopardy!.
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