J! Clue values-time for a bump again?

[chrisholland03]

There's also the bragging rights of being on Jeopardy!  I'd be interested in knowing what the applicant to contestant ratio is.

[clemon79]

Using the CPI Inflation Calculator (https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl), here are the values of $100 through all of the key Jeopardy! dates:

1964 - $100.00
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2016 - $774.22

So everything on the board today is 20 times what it was in 1964, yet the dollar itself is only worth a little less than eight times as much.

Tells me everything I need to know, I think.

[parliboy]

So everything on the board today is 20 times what it was in 1964, yet the dollar itself is only worth a little less than eight times as much.

Tells me everything I need to know, I think.

I think "only the winner keeps his cash" dilutes that a bit, but your position is otherwise well-taken.

[Sodboy13]

And if you want to weigh it against its contemporaries in terms of time period and ratings, I'd imagine Jeopardy pays out a lot more per week on average than Family Feud.

[TLEberle]

I think "only the winner keeps his cash" dilutes that a bit, but your position is otherwise well-taken.

So the clues would increase ten-fold, and the dollar is worth eight times as much.

[parliboy]

Thus "a bit".

[clemon79]

I think "only the winner keeps his cash" dilutes that a bit, but your position is otherwise well-taken.

Fair cop; that didn't occur to me. But yeah, I'd still argue that the current values are in line with the current value of a buck.

[Kevin Prather]

And don't forget the tournaments have gone up in prize money too. Tournaments that used to offer $25k to first place now offer that much to third place.

[Neumms]

Personally, what I'd rather see is a return to the former style of play that didn't emphasize getting every clue revealed in a half hour, where there could be upwards of five or more clues untouched by the end of a round.

I, too, liked it when they didn't get through a board, though leaving five untouched is high. It put more of a premium on getting to choose.

[jage]

For me it's the reverse, especially when there is a category I wanted to see or was doing well at.