Tonight the returning champion, a VERY sharp young fellow, ended Double Jeopardy with $30,400 and a lady challenger had exactly half his total, or $15,200. So as we waited for Final Jeopardy, I just knew that one or the other would do something stupid.

Surely we all realize that the only logical wager was for her to bet everything to try and achieve a tie and for him to bet nothing so he was guaranteed no worse than a tie. Well she did her part, got the question right, and was momentarily tied.

He also got the question right, but then they revealed that he had bet $1. So he won with $30,401 to her $30,400. It worked out OK for the champion and he will be back to continue playing, but how in the world could he not see that if he had gotten the question wrong, he would have LOST by a dollar. These people astound me sometimes with the things they do on that show.