1,895 players, 110 perfect rounds, and a wager mix that leaned hard into boldness: 52% of all bets went 3x, only 4% at 2x. Players who went bold earned it — 3x accuracy landed at 79% versus 68% on 1x. Then a 1960s–1970s actor showed up and handed 90% of the field the wrong answer.
By the Numbers
- Total guesses
- 18,950
- Average accuracy
- 73%
- Hardest celebrity
Julie Newmar (10%)- Easiest celebrity
Donald Trump (99%)- Biggest upset
- Julie Newmar
- Players this week
- 1,895
- Perfect rounds
- 110
- Wager mix
- 1× 44% · 2× 4% · 3× 52%
What stood out
Alex Lifeson produced the week's closest split: 49% alive, 51% dead on 236 guesses. He's alive. One percentage point from a coin flip. Right behind him, 
Roxane Gay and 
Gao Xingjian both landed at 54% accuracy — both alive, both nearly halved the field.
How 236 players guessed Alex LifesonThe wrong-direction misses were plentiful this week. 
Al Gore pulled 57% of players toward deceased — he's alive, 43% accuracy. 
Mick Fleetwood did even worse: 73% of players called him deceased. He's alive. 
Barbara Kingsolver read as deceased to 66% of the field. She's alive. 
Stephen Jay Gould flipped the other way — 62% called him alive. He's deceased. Four wrong-direction misses scattered through the middle of the board kept the scoreboard from being a clean week despite the bold-leaning wager mix.
Itzhak Perlman also went quietly sideways: 77% of players called the 1960s–2020s musician deceased. He's alive. 23% accuracy.
Bonus exact-year hits came in at 588. The top score reached 3,635.
Featured: Julie Newmar
She holds multiple patents for pantyhose designs and once created her own line of lingerie, proving her creativity extended far beyond acting.
90% of players called Julie Newmar deceased. She's alive. That's 10% accuracy on 304 guesses — worst on the board by a considerable margin, and the week's biggest upset. In a week where more than half of all wagers went 3x, players who went bold on this one took the hardest hit available. The 1960s–1970s actor ran on the week's fourth-largest sample and generated almost no correct guesses regardless of wager tier.
How 304 players guessed Julie NewmarHonorable mentions
- [unknown: francoise-hardy] at 18% — 82% of players called the 1960s–2000s musician alive. She's deceased. Second-hardest miss of the week on a solid sample.
Rupert Murdoch at 40% — 60% of players called him deceased. He's alive. Closer to the center than it looks, but still wrong-direction.- Donald Trump at 99% — the week's clearest gimme. One percent of players missed. The floor and ceiling of the week, as usual, were miles apart.