91% of the Field Were Dead Wrong About Mikhail

24,070 guesses, 2,407 players, and a week with a single number that dominates everything else: 9%. That's how many players correctly identified Mikhail Khodorkovsky as alive. The other 91% called him deceased. He isn't. That's the worst accuracy of the week by a distance, and it came on a week where 52% of all wagers went 3x — meaning a lot of confident wrong answers.

The 3x accuracy held up well overall at 77%, and the bold-and-right rate was 56%. Seventy-four perfect rounds out of 2,407 players. On paper, a fine week. Khodorkovsky is just sitting there in the corner.

By the Numbers

Total guesses

24,070

Average accuracy

71%

Hardest celebrity

Mikhail Khodorkovsky (9%)

Easiest celebrity

Albert Einstein (99%)

Biggest upset

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Players this week

2,407

Perfect rounds

74

Wager mix

1× 44% · 2× 5% · 3× 52%

What stood out

The top of the split chart was genuinely chaotic. George Michael came closest to 50/50 — 48% alive, 52% deceased, 52% accuracy on 386 guesses. He's deceased, so the majority landed right, but barely. Phil Donahue flipped the script: 52% of players called him alive, 48% called him deceased. He's deceased. Only 48% correct.

Liza Minnelli was the week's most notable alive-direction miss outside the featured celebrity — 55% of players called her deceased. She's alive. Only 45% got it right on 399 guesses. Michael Caine had it worse: 65% called him deceased. Also alive. 35% accuracy.

On the other end, Albert Einstein ran at 99% — the gimme, as expected. Gordon Ramsay was right behind him.

Featured: Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Ninety-one percent of players called Mikhail Khodorkovsky deceased. He's alive. That's 9% accuracy on 386 guesses — the worst result of the week and one of the wider misses this game has produced. The 1990s–2000s business figure ran on a solid sample size, so this isn't a small-n anomaly. Players across wager tiers got it wrong at roughly equal rates. The bold and the cautious alike. 735 bonus exact-year hits this week, which means plenty of players were confident enough to commit to a specific year — just not on this one.

Honorable mentions

• Jacques Pépin at 17% accuracy — 83% of players called the 1970s–2010s culinary figure deceased. He's alive. Second-hardest miss of the week.
• Vivienne Westwood at 24% — 76% called her alive. She's deceased. The direction flipped but the margin held.
• Billie Jean King at 41% — 59% of players called her deceased. She's alive. A quiet trap on 259 guesses.
• Liam Payne at 42% — 58% of players called him alive. He's deceased. Opposite problem, similar miss rate.