Should ‘Jeopardy!’ put limits on a player’s number of wins?
A lot of readers had comments about “Jeopardy!” after a fellow reader recently complained about contestants getting to keep playing as long as they could win, asking instead for a limit on the number of wins. I thought players should play for as long as they could win. Well, here’s some of the mail that resulted.
“I enjoy watching winners who keep on winning. The Matt Amodios, James Holzhauers and Ken Jennings are fun and exciting to watch. No time limits please.”
“My friend and I discussed it and decided we were bored as well. We are longtime viewers of ‘Jeopardy!’ and say there should be a time limit on contestants.”
“As a veteran ‘Jeopardy!’ viewer, I think it’s boring when we get back to the ho-hum of two- or three-day wunderkinds after runs like Amodio, Holzhauer and Jennings.”
“It doesn’t matter to me how long a player stays on top. What I would like to see is a return to harder questions. One of the things I used to love about the show is that I always felt a little smarter after watching and really impressed with the brainiacs that were playing. Nowadays, not so much.”
“I agree with the person in your column … that ‘Jeopardy!’ has become boring. There is no competition. One only needs to watch the last five minutes to see if the present champion wins again in a walkaway. Has the level of the contestants gone down?”
To sum up, I haven’t seen this many letters about one program since Tyra Banks became host of “Dancing With the Stars.” As for “Jeopardy!,” I may not like individual winners, but I still enjoy open-ended competition.
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