One ‘Jeopardy!' Contestant Is Coming for Ken Jennings' Record

Ken Jennings can consider himself warned.

Jamie Ding, a Metro Detroit native, won his 23rd consecutive victory on the Tuesday, April 14 episode of "Jeopardy!," adding another $16,400 to his growing total and tying one of the show’s most celebrated win streaks in the process. The win puts him in a tie with Mattea Roach, who won 23 straight games back in 2022, and places him fifth on the all-time consecutive wins leaderboard.

His 23-day total now stands at $644,000, ranking him sixth in all-time winnings on the show. Tuesday’s episode wasn’t particularly close, with his runner-up Iain Carpenter finishing with just $1 after a big Final Jeopardy! wager didn’t pan out, while the third contestant ended Double Jeopardy! with a negative score and was ineligible to participate in the final round.

Ding will go for win No. 24 on Wednesday’s episode, which would give him sole possession of the show’s fifth-longest win streak. Ding is a 2009 graduate of Grosse Pointe North High School, where he was a standout quiz tournament competitor and honor student who graduated a year early, Ding went on to earn a degree in molecular biology from Princeton University in 2013. His father, Yuchuan Ding, is a professor of neurosurgery at Wayne State University.

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As for Jennings’ record, he won almost 74 straight games in 2004, taking home more than $2.5 million in the process. Ding has a long way to go to catch him, but at the rate he’s going, nobody is ruling anything out.

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This story was originally published April 14, 2026 at 10:20 PM.