[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for the Thursday, September 18, episode of Jeopardy !]

Paolo Pasco might have been in seventh heaven after playing his seventh Jeopardy! game as he approached the $200,000 mark in total winnings. The Final Question was a bit controversial again , as fans thought it was too hard.

Pasco, from San Diego, California, played against Kelly Anneken, from Alameda, California, and Greg Shipman, from Houston, Texas, on Thursday, September 18. He came in with a six-day total of $162,117.

It was a fight for first place between Pasco, a puzzle writer, and Shipman, a geoscience cartographer, at the beginning of the game. Pasco led with $5,600 compared to Shipman’s $3,000.

After the commercial break, Shipman found the Daily Double. He was

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