The fifteen-game run
Jeopardy.com marked her tenth consecutive win on 10 June 2024 and her fifteen-game milestone on 18 June. At that point her winnings stood at $349,600. The research record behind this page gives a total of $351,600 for her June 2024 run; the show's own milestone report gives $349,600 after fifteen wins, and both figures are set down here rather than reconciled.
A sixteenth win would have tied her for tenth place on the show's Leaderboard of Legends for consecutive victories, alongside Ryan Long. Her research record also notes a co-runner-up finish at the 2025 Tournament of Champions and a place in Jeopardy! Masters in 2025; those come from an encyclopedic summary rather than from the two dispatches cited here.
The numbers behind it
The show published the underlying statistics with the milestone. Across fifteen wins she registered a 61 per cent buzzer rating and 91 per cent accuracy on 331 clues, with five runaway victories - games already mathematically won before Final Jeopardy!.
Her Final Jeopardy! record was thirteen correct from fifteen. She won the fifteenth game with $23,600, having wagered $10,000 on a Final Jeopardy! clue in the category Geographic Name's Almost the Same and answered it correctly. A $10,000 wager is an aggressive bet for a champion protecting a streak, and it paid.
An archivist on the buzzer
Her occupation is the detail most reports led on, and it is more relevant to the game than it first appears. Archival work is the professional practice of knowing where information sits and retrieving it under constraint, which is a reasonable description of what the Jeopardy! board demands sixty-one times an episode.
Her own comment to the show was about the other players rather than herself. 'I've been amazed by all my competitors, the positivity and camaraderie,' she said. 'We're all happy to be part of this show that we've enjoyed for so long.'
Where fifteen wins sits
The show's Leaderboard of Legends ranks champions by consecutive wins, and fifteen puts a player just outside its top ten. That is rarefied company for a programme that has run for decades and televises a new champion nearly every week.
It is also a different achievement from a tournament title. A regular-season streak is won against a fresh pair of challengers every night, which rewards consistency over fifteen separate evenings rather than peak performance across a single week. The accuracy figure is the number that captures it: 91 per cent, over 331 clues, in front of a camera.
What is documented and what is not
Documented by Jeopardy.com: her occupation as an archivist, her home in West Lafayette, Indiana, her tenth win on 10 June 2024, her fifteen-game milestone on 18 June, winnings of $349,600, a 61 per cent buzzer rating, 91 per cent accuracy on 331 clues, five runaway wins, thirteen correct Final Jeopardy! responses, her $23,600 fifteenth game and her own quotation.
Not documented in those dispatches: her age or date of birth, her employer, her family, her home town of Huntington, West Virginia, and her later tournament results. Those last two come from the research record. The two winnings figures in circulation, $349,600 and $351,600, are both reported above without a claim as to which is final.
Watch: Adriana Harmeyer on camera
| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emma Boettcher | United States | Ending James Holzhauer's 32-game Jeopardy! streak | Age 27 |
| Jason Zuffranieri | United States | A maths teacher from Albuquerque won nineteen games in a row and half a mi | Age 43 |
| Adriana Harmeyer | United States | Winning 15 consecutive Jeopardy! games in June 2024 | — |
| Cris Pannullo | United States | Winning 21 consecutive games of Jeopardy! | — |
| Ray Lalonde | Canada | Winning 12 consecutive games of Jeopardy! in December 2022 | — |
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Won 15 consecutive Jeopardy! games; milestone reported 18 June 2024
- An archivist living in West Lafayette, Indiana
- 91% accuracy on 331 clues, 61% buzzer rating, five runaway wins
- 13 correct Final Jeopardy! responses from 15; won the fifteenth game with $23,600
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- Two winnings figures are in circulation: $349,600 (Jeopardy.com) and $351,600 (research record)
- Her 2025 tournament results and her origin in Huntington, West Virginia come from the research record
- No age, date of birth, employer or family detail appears in these sources
Questions people ask about Adriana Harmeyer
What does Adriana Harmeyer do for a living?
She is an archivist, according to Jeopardy.com, and lives in West Lafayette, Indiana.
How many Jeopardy! games did Adriana Harmeyer win?
Fifteen consecutive games, with the milestone reported by the show on 18 June 2024.
How much did Adriana Harmeyer win?
Jeopardy.com gave $349,600 after fifteen wins. The research record for this page gives $351,600 for her June 2024 run. Both figures are reported here.
How accurate was she?
91 per cent on 331 clues, with a 61 per cent buzzer rating, five runaway wins and thirteen correct Final Jeopardy! responses from fifteen.
How old is Adriana Harmeyer?
No age or date of birth appears in any source used for this page.
Did she play in the Tournament of Champions?
The research record reports a co-runner-up finish at the 2025 Tournament of Champions and a place in Jeopardy! Masters that year, drawn from an encyclopedic summary rather than the dispatches cited here.
Where is Adriana Harmeyer from originally?
The research record gives Huntington, West Virginia. The two cited dispatches give her current home as West Lafayette, Indiana.
Is Adriana Harmeyer on Wikipedia?
She appears in lists of Jeopardy! contestants. No standalone English Wikipedia article for her is recorded here.
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Sources
- Jeopardy! Champion Adriana Harmeyer Achieves 15-Game Milestone — Jeopardy.com (J!Buzz), 2024-06-18
- Jeopardy! Super-Champ Adriana Harmeyer Notches 10 Consecutive Wins — Jeopardy.com (J!Buzz), 2024-06-10
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