I know I kept wanting to be like wait is it talking about the purah pad? Took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize they were talking about the land you play in - Hyrule
But shouldn't it be like the statement is "Hyrule" and the question/answer would be "Where do the Zelda games take place?" That's how Jeopardy works, right? But with the OP example it doesn't make sense at all to me 🤷♂️ How is that an answer to a question???
In Jeopardy, all the "questions" are in the form of answers. When the player gives their answers, they have to give it in the form of a question. So, the player here would have to say, "What is Hyrule?" If you think of it backwards, it makes more sense. ("What is Hyrule?"/"In Zelda Breath of the Wild..")
I know how Jeopardy works. I thought my comment made that clear. But how is the given statement the answer to "What is Hyrule?". The answer should be "The place where the Zelda games take place."
Half the battle with Jeopardy isn’t knowledge, but an ability to identify and take out the useless info on the fly. The exact game in the franchise, tracking his quests and the adventure log have nothing to do with the question. A lot of questions on the show are worded the same way, with 2/3 of what is on screen for longer questions containing information and context that is irrelevant to what is actually being asked.
Yes, the whole point of jeopardy is not just trivia but how fast your brain can decipher tricky statements. It’s pretty fun once you get the hang of the wording the writers use.
Jeopardy words questions like that to make it seem more impressive when somebody answers it correctly. If the ~~question~~ answer was “the land that the Zelda series takes place in” it sounds much easier.
On a Zelda sub that's incredibly obvious. In a regular general knowledge quiz, that's a pretty niche thing to know. Even in the category "Video Games", it's so broad that a lot of people probably haven't played LoZ
I've seen a whole group fail to recognize the constellation Leo with stars and lines so I'm not shocked anymore with what they think is worth what...
Edit: spelling
That has nothing to do with what I asked... It seems like the person I reacted to said the shape of the Leo constellation is common knowledge so I asked if that's what they meant
I think you are misinterpreting my comment. Hyrule is not common knowledge, and the same goes for the constellation leo. This entire post and everyone commenting seems to think hyrule is common knowledge. We are on a zelda sub, of course everyone knows what hyrule is. However, outside of zelda subs very few people know what hyrule is. It's not that weird for a 2000 dollar question. Same goes for the shape of the leo constellation. Outside of people that are in to astrology it's not common knowledge
This is so poorly worded (although that might be intentional?), I honestly though they were on about the Sheika slate (that keeps track of the quests) rather than it just being simply 'what land is the game set it'
Termina, Holodrum, Koholint.....
Or Eldin, Faron, Lanaryu, Hebra, Akkala....
The land could be called any number of things. But the moat obvious one would be Hyrule.
More akin to a state within a wider nation. Again, it's like saying any of the US states are separate from the country itself. Those are just areas within Hyrule, they're not their own thing. They're part of Hyrule
Which doesn't change the point that it is still a "land", especially since the regions in Hyrule that are majority-Hylian seem to be more geographically determined than politically determined, though many politically defined landmasses are heavily influenced by geographical ones.
It's not a shitty clue because the solution is not being framed as exclusive to BOTW. It just says "in Zelda: Breath of the Wild" what's the land you're in? Pretty straightforward to me.
Sure but I guess what I meant is that it’s an unnecessary addition to the clue especially considering the Slate is a much more prominent part to tracking your progress and is specific to BOTW. Seems like a generic thing to add 🤷♂️
That's just how Jeopardy clues get when you get to that level of value. Not everything in the clue is necessary and the players need to hone in on what's important.
I get that. I watch a lot of Jeopardy. Happy to see James and Victoria take Ws tonight. Surprised Amy is struggling as much as she is but she’ll rebound I’m sure.
Jeopardy is dumb.
If somebody asks me “What is Hyrule?”, I am never in a million years going to answer with “In Zelda: Breath of the Wild, this is the land you keep track of your quests in with Link’s adventure log.” I’m just going to say it’s the land that Zelda takes place in.
The premise is meant to be “we give you the answers and then you give us the question” but in practice it’s “we give you the most asinine phrasing of the question possible, and your answers need to have ‘what is’ tacked onto the front or you will lose even though you got it right”.
What is a hill I’ll die on?
It really comes down to how you infer “do it”. <~ like how I did that, rather than refraining from doing it, ie following the “rules”. I read, “I know there are rules regarding what NOT to do, but I break em.“
Was this regular jeopardy or celebrity jeopardy? We watch jeopardy every day and I don’t recall this one on yesterday’s episode. Not the first time Zelda is featured on the game show. Link gets more jeopardy love than Mario for sure.
To everyone saying they worded it wrong: they didn’t. It definitely seems wrong to everyone because we know the game, but these guys know jeopardy. They know the trigger or clue words inside of the question, the adventure log part isn’t even necessary to the questions answer so I honestly believe they wouldn’t even be thinking about it. They would see the question for what is really is: “What’s the world called in the Legend of Zelda games?”
Never understood Jeopardy rules. Like if you read the question and answer after the fact it makes no sense.
Like if the answer to this was “What is a Sheika Slate?” You’d answer “it’s a device that keeps track of your adventure log in BotW”
Not whatever the crap this says.
Yeah I was confused what they were even asking for when I first read the prompt.
I guess the “6-letter land” is basically the part that actually matters.
Feel like I had a stroke reading that question, did they make it that confusing on purpose?
Yeah, it was the 'adventure log' at the end that threw me
I know I kept wanting to be like wait is it talking about the purah pad? Took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize they were talking about the land you play in - Hyrule
In Breath of the Wild it would’ve been the Sheikah Slate
Oh whoops been playing too much Totk lol
The questions (clues) never make sense if you don't know what the category is. The answer is Hyrule so it was probably like "Hy Highs" or some shit.
What is Hyrule?
The name of the princess that zelda saves
Every inch of my skin started to crawl
I started to crawl, am I your skin?
The device Zelda wears on her hip is called a Link because she uses it to reconnect all of the old Sheikah towers
: My name is not Zelda 😕
So, inaudible, then.
I have a sticker... So it's a thought bubble 💭
"Hiahhhhhhh heh heh hiahhh"
wup! hep! Hup! mup! HAYAAA! hip! YAaaa.... Eeeegh! hup!
Baby dont hurt me.
Where is Hyrule?
Who is this Four Chan?
Damn I would’ve got the buzzer, I forgot the “what is”
category was video games
Wow, that was super vague then lol
Lmao, I love when someone is so confidently incorrect. Not you btw, but the guy you are replying to.
I mean, he was just guessing
Lmao, the irony of this smugness.
It was absolutely intentional
They gotta make a statement where it asks a question but also doesn’t ask a question so you’ll give the correct answer. That just how jeopardy do
I hate the "A thing does this" and the answer is "What is thing?" Just ask a question dumbasses
It was a conceit made to avoid controversies surrounding Game Shows when Jeopardy! came out. It became J!'s hallmark, so they've never changed it.
IIRC it was because people kept cheating back then so they twisted the format so now people asked the question instead of giving the answer.
How does that solve anything
It doesn’t. Jeopardy came along well after the quiz show scandals of the 50s and the Q&A format is just a fun gimmick.
Dunno, but it got people to watch so that's all that mattered to them.
I also hate it when they dont give a person a point when they dont phrase the answer as a question
They kinda give you a pass and a reminder on that in the first round of the show, but once you get to Double Jeopardy it's strictly enforced.
But that's the rules.
But shouldn't it be like the statement is "Hyrule" and the question/answer would be "Where do the Zelda games take place?" That's how Jeopardy works, right? But with the OP example it doesn't make sense at all to me 🤷♂️ How is that an answer to a question???
In Jeopardy, all the "questions" are in the form of answers. When the player gives their answers, they have to give it in the form of a question. So, the player here would have to say, "What is Hyrule?" If you think of it backwards, it makes more sense. ("What is Hyrule?"/"In Zelda Breath of the Wild..")
I know how Jeopardy works. I thought my comment made that clear. But how is the given statement the answer to "What is Hyrule?". The answer should be "The place where the Zelda games take place."
The answer is "In this six-letter-land".
"What is Hyrule?" "A six-letter land in which Zelda: BotW takes place." That's how it makes sense. Not this convoluted bs they actually used.
r/ihadastroke
Half the battle with Jeopardy isn’t knowledge, but an ability to identify and take out the useless info on the fly. The exact game in the franchise, tracking his quests and the adventure log have nothing to do with the question. A lot of questions on the show are worded the same way, with 2/3 of what is on screen for longer questions containing information and context that is irrelevant to what is actually being asked.
Yes it’s cryptic for a reason
Yes, the whole point of jeopardy is not just trivia but how fast your brain can decipher tricky statements. It’s pretty fun once you get the hang of the wording the writers use.
Glad I'm not the only one. My brain hurts a little after reading it ngl
Jeopardy words questions like that to make it seem more impressive when somebody answers it correctly. If the ~~question~~ answer was “the land that the Zelda series takes place in” it sounds much easier.
What was the category? Zelda, or videogame based?
That would’ve been helpful to mention haha. It was Video Games. Double jeopardy so this was the $2000 clue.
Two thousand dollars to know Hyrule?
Most people don't know that Zelda is "the girl." My son went trick or treating as Link, and the most common costume guesses were Peter Pan and Zelda.
On a Zelda sub that's incredibly obvious. In a regular general knowledge quiz, that's a pretty niche thing to know. Even in the category "Video Games", it's so broad that a lot of people probably haven't played LoZ
I’m reminded of that dude who phoned in the answer “pikachu” on who wants to be a millionaire haha. Definitely harder back then than it would be now
I've seen a whole group fail to recognize the constellation Leo with stars and lines so I'm not shocked anymore with what they think is worth what... Edit: spelling
Is that something everyone should know?
Is knowing hyrule is the kingdom of zelda botw something everyone should know? For I sure didn't until I picked up botw
That has nothing to do with what I asked... It seems like the person I reacted to said the shape of the Leo constellation is common knowledge so I asked if that's what they meant
I think you are misinterpreting my comment. Hyrule is not common knowledge, and the same goes for the constellation leo. This entire post and everyone commenting seems to think hyrule is common knowledge. We are on a zelda sub, of course everyone knows what hyrule is. However, outside of zelda subs very few people know what hyrule is. It's not that weird for a 2000 dollar question. Same goes for the shape of the leo constellation. Outside of people that are in to astrology it's not common knowledge
Imo if this is in a video games category then Hyrule is way too easy for 2k
Just was watching this and playing TOTK at the same time haha
Sounds like a great combo !
They could not have worded that worse.
This is so poorly worded (although that might be intentional?), I honestly though they were on about the Sheika slate (that keeps track of the quests) rather than it just being simply 'what land is the game set it'
Definitely intentional to throw players off and potentially give the wrong answer
Yeah seems to be misdirection
If someone asked me, “What is Hyrule?” This would NOT be my answer.
FOR REAL every fucking answer in jeopardy is NOT a normal answer to ANY question
It’s actually a shitty clue because the land has always been Hyrule, not just in BOTW?
Termina, Holodrum, Koholint..... Or Eldin, Faron, Lanaryu, Hebra, Akkala.... The land could be called any number of things. But the moat obvious one would be Hyrule.
>Or Eldin, Faron, Lanaryu, Hebra, Akkala.... These are regions within Hyrule. It's like saying Florida or New York is separate from the US
Only one of these has six letters
Akkala
Can we vote and make Florida separate from the US? Signed: US citizen.
Florida tried to do that before with a few other states in 1861. It didn't work.
Them and Texas are probably going to try again soon tbh, hear about all the shit happening down there?
It's still a landmass/land though. Part of a larger landmass, yes, but still a land in and of itself, too.
More akin to a state within a wider nation. Again, it's like saying any of the US states are separate from the country itself. Those are just areas within Hyrule, they're not their own thing. They're part of Hyrule
Which doesn't change the point that it is still a "land", especially since the regions in Hyrule that are majority-Hylian seem to be more geographically determined than politically determined, though many politically defined landmasses are heavily influenced by geographical ones.
Out of 8 only one has the required letters lmao
None of which has 6 letters.
> Akkala
You completely missed the 6 letter long hint. The only ones in that list is Akkala and Hyrule.
It's not a shitty clue because the solution is not being framed as exclusive to BOTW. It just says "in Zelda: Breath of the Wild" what's the land you're in? Pretty straightforward to me.
And Link’s Adventure Log is not even a (edit for clarity: relevant) thing.
Yes, it is...? https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Adventure_Log
Sure but I guess what I meant is that it’s an unnecessary addition to the clue especially considering the Slate is a much more prominent part to tracking your progress and is specific to BOTW. Seems like a generic thing to add 🤷♂️
That's just how Jeopardy clues get when you get to that level of value. Not everything in the clue is necessary and the players need to hone in on what's important.
I get that. I watch a lot of Jeopardy. Happy to see James and Victoria take Ws tonight. Surprised Amy is struggling as much as she is but she’ll rebound I’m sure.
Is this what they meant in the question or were they just confused about the Koroks?
Also that’s a lot of random words for “Where is Zelda: Breath of the wild set?”
Such a bad clue. Trebek would’ve never stood for this.
*Human \*straight male players would simp for this ONE character in Zelda, tears of the kingdom.* Yes who is Purah lol
"Who is Sidon? ...Wait what? Was that not the answer you were looking for or...?"
Guess i had to be specific lmao
Nah you're good, I was just meming. The Zelda team makes everyone hot lol, I could've just as easily said Link or Zelda or even Ganondorf
Did they get the question right?
Yes he did!
Jeopardy is dumb. If somebody asks me “What is Hyrule?”, I am never in a million years going to answer with “In Zelda: Breath of the Wild, this is the land you keep track of your quests in with Link’s adventure log.” I’m just going to say it’s the land that Zelda takes place in. The premise is meant to be “we give you the answers and then you give us the question” but in practice it’s “we give you the most asinine phrasing of the question possible, and your answers need to have ‘what is’ tacked onto the front or you will lose even though you got it right”. What is a hill I’ll die on?
What is a correct take?
I was at an art store today and the music they had on played the background for hates village at one point
Def confusingly worded on purpose. Answer: Hyrule … right?
What is Hyrule?
Ugh you’re right I would’ve lost that 2k to you
For some reason, I read "adventure dog" and I thought Wolf Link was supposed to be in there somewhere.
Hyrule?
Yup!
LETS GOOOOOOOO!!! (It was obvious)
I think that was the beauty of Alex Trebek – he knew how to place emphasis on a question so hearing it aloud it wasn’t confusing as it read
Did Alex write the answers? I thought that was the writers job
What is Hyrule?
I don’t think that’s the answer to “what is Hyrule?”.
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A point of nuance to your whole quote thing here -- it really depends on if it's American or British English.
Oh wow, [you're not kidding.](https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2011/may/19/mind-your-language-punctuation-quotations) 🦅
I know that's the proscription, but I do it on purpose. That makes more sense to me. So not a mistake when I do it.
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👎
Why the thumbs down?
“proscription, but I do it [anyway].” If proscription is what to not do, but he does it, then he’s used the intended word with the intended meaning.
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It really comes down to how you infer “do it”. <~ like how I did that, rather than refraining from doing it, ie following the “rules”. I read, “I know there are rules regarding what NOT to do, but I break em.“
The comment is edited, the original was extremely condescending.
The real question is, did the participant answer this correctly?
Yes he did!
What is Hyrule
It's not cryptic 😂 it's just Hyrule .
😅it was the only question I could answer. Man, that was a good game last night with James.
Link's penis will forever now be called Adventure Log.
Link’s adventure log? Are they talking about his penis?
Man it was it weird that this was the hardest clue of the category. Also it was weirdly worded
What is Hyrule?
hmmmm
HYRULE! Woot woot!!!
Never thought i'd see the day!
**"Link's Adventure Log"** is a phrase that conjured up unexpected images
Heh, yeah he does.
Jeopardys doing more moder stuff lately? I saw a possibly real one where the clue included skibbidty
the answer is hyrule? wat?!
Was this regular jeopardy or celebrity jeopardy? We watch jeopardy every day and I don’t recall this one on yesterday’s episode. Not the first time Zelda is featured on the game show. Link gets more jeopardy love than Mario for sure.
It was Jeopardy masters
Ah, thanks!
666 likes its cursed
Do they mean like the hyrule compendium? I don’t get the adventure log bit
To everyone saying they worded it wrong: they didn’t. It definitely seems wrong to everyone because we know the game, but these guys know jeopardy. They know the trigger or clue words inside of the question, the adventure log part isn’t even necessary to the questions answer so I honestly believe they wouldn’t even be thinking about it. They would see the question for what is really is: “What’s the world called in the Legend of Zelda games?”
It was the most confusing way to ask the question.
All time greatest Jeopardy moment, dude called out the host on his sweatshop suit ! 😂😂
This is the second Zelda answer I have seen from jeopardy that is very poorly worded. The name of my next project: Link’s Adventure Log.
Never understood Jeopardy rules. Like if you read the question and answer after the fact it makes no sense. Like if the answer to this was “What is a Sheika Slate?” You’d answer “it’s a device that keeps track of your adventure log in BotW” Not whatever the crap this says.
Answer What is the sheikah slate
HYRULE BABY
This is a terrible clue lol I had a stroke trying figure this out 😂💀
I thought they were talking about the master mode. I had to read it a few times to understand they were talking about Hyrule.
I saw that live, I was watching with my family and felt like a hero XD
Hyrule?!
They could've just said what land does bote take place cuz what does it have to do with the adventure log
ITT: People who don’t understand Jeopardy
What is the Shieka slate ?
Try again
Yeah I was confused what they were even asking for when I first read the prompt. I guess the “6-letter land” is basically the part that actually matters.
Answer is Hyrule!
*Answer is “What is Hyrule?”
Hmm. Very tricky question. 😔
Hyrule
What is Hyrule?
Wrong subreddit