"I'm afraid we cannot accept that," host Ken Jennings told a disappointed Mehal Shah after he misspelled the answer to the final Jeopardy! clue A Jeopardy! contestant’s small mistake led to a big loss.

A missing letter in a Final Jeopardy! answer spelled doom for one “Jeopardy!” contestant. Mehal Shah, a contestant on the Jan. 30 episode of the show’s Tournament of Champions, was not given credit for his answer in the final round because he misspelled a word by one letter.