“Jeopardy! Greatest of Al♓l Time” contestant Ken Jennings doesn’t just h🌼ave a winning streak.
He has a blue one, too.
Fans learned of his saucy side Thursday night when fellow GOAT competitor James Holzhauer, 35, conceded that night’s loss to Jennings, 45, , “My wife is going to make me roleplay as @KenJennings tonight.”
Jennings posted a salacious reply to the Las Ve🧜gas-based professional gambler. ꦗ“It’s all about timing on the button,” , referencing both the hand buzzer used on the game show and a cheeky allusion to an area of the female anatomy.
Fans replied to Jennings with a string of every imaginable celebratory GIF available, as others weighed in wiꦦt🃏h their own thoughts on the ribald rebuttal.
“Ken with another win lol,” Twitter user Scott Ja𒐪lbert.
“Hopefully she’ll get lucky and James will give her a daily double,” another, referencing a challeng🌺e in the game.
One commenter offered that geeks never get enough credit for their bedroom skillꦯs, , “I keep telling people that appropriately motivated nerds are the best lovers, but nobody believes me…”
And Jennings’ retort was applauded by another Twitter user, that i🌌f the Brigham Young University grad kept that line of humor going, “they’re going to reclassify BYU as a party school.” (Brigham Young is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint♑s.)
“Not nearly as awkward as when Ken’s wife made him role play as Watson,” another poster, referencing the IBM computer that faced off with — and defeated — Jennings and fellow “GOAT” competitor Brad Rutter in a big 2011 showdown on the series.
Jennings, Holzhauer and Rutter, 41, are battling in the tournament for “GOAT” bragging rights. Each night, the pꦯlayers compete in two back-to-back half-hour games, compiling points inste🦩ad of the usual dollars, with each’s total points added together. The one with the most points wins the night, and the first one to hit three nightly wins will take home $1 million and the “GOAT” title.
On Thursday night, Jennings landed his second win in the “Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time” tournament, nabbing 67,600 points. Holzhauer compiled 33,692 for second place with Rutter in third with 23,467. Jennings eked out a first-night win Tuesday with 63,400 and Holzhauer finishing close behind with 63,200. Rutter ended up with 10,400 in that first matchup. Holzhauer won Wednesday, the second night, with a total of 82,414 points. That leaves Jennings in the tournament lead with two points an🔯d only one p꧙oint away from claiming the “GOAT” title.
Alex Trebek, who is 🌜hosting the show despite waging a fight with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, marveled at the significant contest. “Welcome to what we believe will be the greatest ‘Jeopardy!’ tournament ever,” he said on the opening night. “For the first time in 36 years, we have gathered the three best players on the same stage.”
The “Greates🙈t of All Ti⛦me” competition continues Tuesday at 8 p.m. on ABC.