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Jeopardy! contestant unintentionally predicted her winning dollar amount in a doodle before the show
Date: 2021-06-25 00:00:00

The night before recent Jeopardy! winner Katie Sekelsky's first game, she was doodling to calm her anxiety.

"I was alone in the hotel, trying to calm down and 'visualizing' a win," she later tweeted. "I sketched myself at a podium, with a winning-type dollar amount. And that winning-type dollar amount was $19,201."

And then, on the June 15 "Final Jeopardy!" she won…. $19,201.

"If in first, I was always going to bet to cover an all-in bet by second place," she tweeted. "Second place had $9600, so I bet what I had to. Wouldn't have prioritized a viral tweet over a logical wager. I spent FAR too many hours studying wager theory to do that."

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