1,998 players, 19,980 guesses, and a wager column leaning hard into confidence: 54% of all bets went 3x, and players who backed that confidence hit 80% on those wagers. Bold-and-right rate of 59% — not bad, until you met the week's one true trap. 
Florence Griffith Joyner was sitting there at the end of the board, and most of the field walked right into her.
By the Numbers
- Total guesses
- 19,980
- Average accuracy
- 74%
- Hardest celebrity
- Florence Griffith Joyner (17%)
- Easiest celebrity
Angelina Jolie (99%)- Biggest upset
- Florence Griffith Joyner
- Players this week
- 1,998
- Perfect rounds
- 158
- Wager mix
- 1× 41% · 2× 5% · 3× 54%
What stood out
Four celebrities landed within a point of the 50/50 line. 
Christopher Hitchens split the field exactly even — 50% alive, 50% deceased, on 284 guesses. He's deceased. 
Kip Thorne and 
Don DeLillo also hit 50%, both alive, both producing coin-flip results. 
Keith Haring came in at 50% as well — deceased, and another even split. That's four celebrities within the margin of noise in a single week. The middle of the board was genuinely unstable.
How 284 players guessed Christopher HitchensAngelina Jolie was the week's gimme at 99%. 
Samuel L. Jackson and 
Louis Armstrong weren't far behind. 158 perfect rounds out of 1,998 players — roughly 1 in 13, which is solid for a week with this much chaos in the middle.
Featured: Florence Griffith Joyner
She was as famous for her fashion as her speed - she ran in custom one-legged running suits and 6-inch fingernails painted in wild designs, once causing a 15-minute delay to check if her nails were regulation length.
83% of players called Florence Griffith Joyner alive. She's deceased. That's 17% accuracy on 290 guesses — worst on the board and the week's biggest upset by a distance. In a week where more than half of all wagers went 3x, a wrong-direction call at that confidence level did serious damage to scores. The 1980s athlete ran on a solid sample and the error held across the board. There's no wager tier that got you out of this one cleanly.
How 290 players guessed Florence Griffith JoynerHonorable mentions
Alexei Navalny at 23% accuracy — 77% of players called the 2000s–2020s political figure alive. He's deceased. Second-biggest wrong-direction miss of the week.
Cicely Tyson at 29% — 71% called her alive. She's deceased. A quiet trap, but consistent across wager tiers.
Brian Wilson at 28% — 72% called him alive. He's deceased. Three wrong-direction misses in the same ballpark; the field was not having a clean week on deceased musicians and athletes.
Joyce Carol Oates at 41% — 59% called her deceased. She's alive. The direction flipped, but the cost was similar for anyone who went bold the wrong way.