1,897 players, 51% of wagers at 3x, and the accuracy gap between tiers was the widest in recent memory: players who went bold hit 87% on those bets versus 77% on 1x. The bold-and-right rate landed at 54%. Then an activist and academic whose career runs from the 1970s through the 2010s made 78% of the field look foolish.
By the Numbers
- Total guesses
- 18,970
- Average accuracy
- 82%
- Hardest celebrity
Angela Davis (22%)- Easiest celebrity
Dwayne Johnson (100%)- Biggest upset
- Angela Davis
- Players this week
- 1,897
- Perfect rounds
- 324
- Wager mix
- 1× 44% · 2× 5% · 3× 51%
What stood out
Kate Bush and 
Alan Moore both landed at 51% accuracy — the field split almost exactly down the middle on each, around 289 guesses apiece. Both are alive; roughly half of players called them deceased. Two near-perfect coin flips in the same week is unusual. Right behind them: 
Vera Rubin at 53% and 
Clive Barker at 54%. The top of the difficulty list was unusually compressed.
How 289 players guessed Kate Bush
Shannen Doherty went hard wrong-direction: 72% of players called her alive on 258 guesses. She's deceased. 28% accuracy. 
Mikhail Khodorkovsky also flipped — 63% of players called him deceased. He's alive. 37% accuracy on 260 guesses. Business figures from the 1990s–2000s have been a reliable soft trap, and Khodorkovsky delivered on schedule.
324 perfect rounds out of 1,897 players — that's a strong conversion rate, driven by a lineup of gimmes at the easy end. Dwayne Johnson hit 100% accuracy on 262 guesses. Bonus exact-year hits came in at 589.
Featured: Angela Davis
She was once on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, but after her acquittal she went on to become a distinguished university professor and one of the most influential scholars in the field of critical prison studies.
78% of players called Angela Davis deceased. She's alive. That's 22% accuracy on 260 guesses — worst on the board, and the week's biggest upset by a margin. With half the wagers at 3x, a miss this lopsided did real damage to scores that had looked solid heading into the harder half of the draw. The 1970s–2010s activist ran on a healthy sample and the error held steady across wager tiers: there was no clever bet level that got you out of it.
How 260 players guessed Angela DavisHonorable mentions
Josephine Baker at 43% accuracy — 57% of players called the 1920s–1950s musician alive. She's deceased. A quiet wrong-direction miss on a name the field consistently misjudges.- Alan Moore at 51% — the 1980s–2010s author is alive, and nearly half of players called him deceased. Second coin-flip of the week.
Neil Peart at 57% — most of the field called him deceased correctly, but 43% went the other way. He's deceased. Closer than it should have been on 258 guesses.