2,243 players, 212 perfect rounds, and a wager split that nearly flipped: 49% of all bets went 3x, against 45% at 1x. Players who committed at that tier earned it — 3x accuracy hit 84% against 72% on 1x — and the bold-and-right rate landed at 53%. That's a winning week by most measures. 
Rem Koolhaas is the asterisk.
By the Numbers
- Total guesses
- 22,430
- Average accuracy
- 78%
- Hardest celebrity
- Rem Koolhaas (32%)
- Easiest celebrity
Jennifer Lopez (99%)- Biggest upset
- Rem Koolhaas
- Players this week
- 2,243
- Perfect rounds
- 212
- Wager mix
- 1× 45% · 2× 6% · 3× 49%
What stood out
Erykah Badu split the field exactly 50–50 on 239 guesses. She's alive, meaning half the field had it right and half didn't. Right behind her, 
Liam Payne landed at 51% accuracy — deceased, barely called correctly by the slimmest majority. Those two sat at the top of the closest-splits chart and weren't particularly close to anything else in that range.
How 239 players guessed Erykah BaduA few others worth noting in the wrong-direction column: 
Alan Moore pulled 60% deceased calls on 324 guesses — he's alive, 40% accuracy. 
Florence Griffith Joyner drew 61% alive calls on 329 guesses — she's deceased, 39% accuracy. 
Norm Macdonald and 
Quincy Jones both landed at 40%, each pulling a majority of wrong-direction calls. That's a cluster of misses in the 39–42% range that kept the overall average from running higher despite the bold wager performance.
Bonus exact-year hits: 760. Top score: 3,725.
Featured: Rem Koolhaas
Before becoming an architect, he was a journalist and screenwriter who wrote scripts for experimental films, and he still approaches architecture like a storyteller crafting narratives in space.
68% of players called Rem Koolhaas deceased. He's alive. That's 32% accuracy on 300 guesses — worst on the board, and the week's biggest upset. With nearly half of all wagers going 3x, a meaningful share of that 68% absorbed the full penalty. The next-hardest miss was 
Bernard Arnault at 33% accuracy (67% deceased calls; he's alive), which makes this the bottom of a rough bracket rather than an isolated incident — but Koolhaas cleared it.
How 300 players guessed Rem KoolhaasHonorable mentions
- Bernard Arnault at 33% — 67% of players called the business figure deceased on 239 guesses. He's alive. Second-hardest miss, right on Koolhaas's heels.
Tori Amos at 44% — 56% of players called the 1990s–2010s musician deceased. She's alive. Third miss worth flagging.- Jennifer Lopez at 99% — 329 guesses, almost no dissent. She's alive. The board needed an anchor, and she was it.