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How Jeopardy!’s Daily Double is changing

For those of you who prefer to be surprised, don’t worry. Jennings explained that they’ll only briefly show the Daily Double locations at the start of each round. So if you want to remain in the dark you can just look away. And folks who want to know can remember the locations and watch as contestants come oh-so-close to landing on them during the match.

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While it’s an exciting change to the format of the classic game show, Jennings wasn’t sure if it would stick around outside of this special Masters tournament airing on ABC primetime.

“I don’t know if we’ll try it on the syndicated show,” he said. “But I really like it because the host always knows where the Daily Doubles are in advance, so I get to watch a contestant who really needs the Daily Double kind of advance towards it, ‘Oh, is she gonna get it? Oh no, she’s switched categories!’ [When you know the location] you can really get a sense of how the match is changing and how the odds are changing in real-time.”

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Jeopardy! Masters begins tonight, May 8, on ABC at 8 p.m. ET.