You don’t get to drive off the set in the new car you just won, nor do they immediately pay you any money you win once you step off the stage. You don’t receive your winnings immediately. These days, all you get for a rerun is a second chance to record your episode.ģ. I got a whole ‘nother set, like a residual, but I didn’t actually get my money again.” “So about a month later, as a loser, I get this huge package from “Jeopardy!” of all these … left-handed toothbrushes and all these other things they were giving away. What he didn’t realize was that when his tournament games aired again over the summer, the show changed the fee plugs at the end of the episode. When Jerome Vered played in the 1992 Tournament of Champions, he finished in third place and received the announced third-place parting gifts in addition to his runner-up prize of $7,500. My “parting gifts” from “Jeopardy!” amounted to a tote bag, a T-shirt and a glass frame for my photo with Alex Trebek. “Jeopardy!,” among many other shows, used to give sponsored parting gifts to departing contestants – the classic Rice-A-Roni comes to mind. One thing should be made abundantly clear: If your show airs as a rerun during the off-season, you don’t get paid a second time. So it’s just as easy for them to give you the cash.” If they just said you won a wonderful set of rubber tires, they bought it.

“ When they say, I’m just gonna say Goodyear tires, ‘You’ve won a set of Goodyear tires, from the number one store, Goodyear,’ then you know that was promoted. I wasn’t given the option to receive the actual prize instead, and I couldn’t trade one of the other prizes I won for their cash value, either.Īs Art Alisi explains, that’s because the show buys some of their prizes - and there’s a way to tell if they did, if you listen closely during the show. On my prize sheet, certain prizes are labeled “C-I-L”: cash in lieu.

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