I would agree that if the host mentions the player's bank account, as in 'You have $800 how much do you want to bet', they should finish the phrase with 'you can bet up to X'. 'Before and After' took me a few clues to parse as well, but he might have explained it and I was just in denial. He often said 'you know what that means', and for a while, I didn't. I don't know the stats, but Alex rarely explained what 'blank is in quotation marks' actually meant when reading categories. I've never heard the announcement that you can't bet more than you have in Final Jeopardy. I hear the unnecessary explanations as just filler, and don't think there is a need to Mirandize (great term, Opus!) every rule. We have little sympathy for bad wagers but we're supposed to worry that players might not succeed in summoning the basic rules?. I think the host should always give the reminder. 'You have $800 how much do you want to bet' - 'I'll bet $1000'. It might be weird for newcomers to the show. I agree and I'm surprised he did it again today. Maybe he didn't want to go in the hole, and it wouldn't have mattered anyway, and the host isn't required to Mirandize the contestant. This is the second day in a row he hasn't informed a contestant that they can bet up to $1000/$2000 on a DD when the contestant had less than that amount. The risk going forward of surreptitious signaling to odious hate groups only being noticed after-the-fact and causing damaging scandal is going to be too great for the show to allow anything. If there wasn't a hard-and-fast written rule before, there's going to be one now. I doubt any of this stuff is going to survive the editing room after this. The show loved Austin Rogers' pantomimes and made them the subject of a mini social media campaign. I imagine pretty much every DD solve is edited for time, when a live audience is present.) (In reality, it takes a lot longer for applause to die down after Daily Doubles than is shown on the show. The show edited out little shaking-two-palms-pressed-together prayer gesture I made after getting a DD right, I presume for time and not because they didn't want to show the gesture. Thank God the white supremacists didn't coopt that universal symbol of mutual honor and peace in the time before my games aired.īesides the finger numbers that several champs have used to indicate their number of wins, there are all kinds of fist pumps and looks skyward and rah-rah two-hands-clasped pumps in the air after wins or correct Daily Double responses.

Now that I think about it, I did perform a hand gesture-a namaste directed to my yoga group back home and to the universe at large-after winning.

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