JEOPARDY! host Ken Jennings revealed Adriana Harmeyer plays exactly like he did as a contestant - and gave her a warning for the future. Adriana has been smashing through the competition so far with a 14-day winning streak. The West Virginia native chatted to Ken about her conservative strategy in a postgame clip aired on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast.
“After 11 wins do you feel like you might be a little bit temperamentally underconfident?" Ken asked. "Do you feel like you might be selling yourself short as a Jeopardy! champ?" “I think I just wanna keep going,” Adriana said. “So I'm trying not to.
..” “Big swings?” Ken asked.
“Yeah, I’m trying not to miss so I’d rather just be a little careful,” she said. Ken said Adriana’s style of play reminded him of his own 74-game run on Jeopardy! back in 2004, where he also played more traditionally. “That’s exactly how I played,” the TV star said.
“But today, you’ve got the generation of moneyball players,” he admitted, implying that times have changed and she may run into someone who is more aggressive. Adriana has focused on an old-fashioned way of playing as a rare top-down player who refuses to hunt for Daily Doubles. She previously revealed she "likes to know what the category means" before she "gets into the heart of clues.
" She has been steaming through the competition since her debut on May 31 and is now Season 40's first super-champion. It has been almost two years since there has been a 10-p.
