When I discovered Jeopardy as a kid, I remember thinking how odd it was for people to start at the top and work down. Getting to those Daily Doubles first seemed like a better move. That said, I haven't seen this dude play yet but he sounds freakin' annoying. There's something great about the cadence and timing of the typical style of play - as if playing it involves a certain level of decorum. I like the thought that the contestants are more there for an enjoyable night out with a bit of thoughtful challenge thrown in rather than it just being about a win. If you play Jeopardy just to win, you're doing it wrong.
And from a viewer's perspective, the puns they have as column titles have gotten worse and more inscrutable so it's very important in my opinion that they go in order so I can remember what pun-application my answer is supposed to have. Since you only tend to have five seconds to respond this stuff matters. Course that applies to his competitors as well so it's obviously a good strategy. Speak for yourself. From home I'm playing for fun -- if I ever got on the show I'd be attempting to build capital at the fastest rate possible.If you play Jeopardy just to win, you're doing it wrong.
I forgot about all the bad puns and word play on there now. I'm not saying that winning shouldn't be a goal. It just shouldn't be the only goal. A viewers perspective no doubt. Arthur Chu sounds like the kind of dude that would battle in Street Fighter II by just huddling and blocking, waiting for that one window to attack. You're not really playing against him, you're playing against his strategy. But I guess if it works, then right on....
flagamuffin, you weren't kidding about that "hubwheel" appearance. -Wow.Arthur Chu sounds like the kind of dude that would battle in Street Fighter II by just huddling and blocking
-Thanks for the laugh and the nostalgia. Great analogy.
I noticed this guy got up to 100k pretty quickly last week after winning in a row so many times. I didn't notice his game tactics because I only passively watch this show when I'm eating dinner. Going to have to pay more attention to him now, it might make Jeopardy actually interesting to watch. Personally, after reading this article, I'm rooting for him. His abrasiveness is a big fuck you to the peculiar aversion to competitiveness as seen on the show. It's a game. and he's demonstrating that there can be more to it than just good memory.
Weird that is how I play. #notgametheory like as in he did not figure out the Nash Equilibrium? I think he may have.
I am not so sure. you can make Nash payoff diagrams of nearly anything. (not that they predict human behavior very well)
Jeopardy would be fairly easy to do that for as things go. Limited scope. But he's not. He just knows that daily doubles show up in certain rows more often and guesses those. So yeah, $1000 is going to be a "best response" to $200 every time, but he didn't find the EQ.