Jeopardy! fans go wild as contestant Sadie Goldberger wins Second Chance game after fury over her co

A JEOPARDY! contestant whose controversial snub last season left viewers furious has scored a comeback and made it count on Monday.

Sadie Goldberger returned to the podium after her shocking loss to Megan Wachpress in June - and rewrote her narrative with fans and the crowd going wild.

The interpreter from Columbia, Maryland infamously lost after writing "Harriett Tubma" for Final Jeopardy without an 'N,' the show controversially ruled a few months back.

Tonight she faced Jeff Smith, a music educator and Sarah Snider a middle school humanities teacher from Indiana in the ongoing Second Chance Tournament.

Sadie looked like she was back with a vengeance in the never-before-done tournament for players who had only ever lost, airing instead of the regular show.

But being 0-and-1 is not the case for Sadie anymore.

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She nodded and smiled as her correct answer (in script like her first game) read: "Who is Earnest Hemmingway?," without an ink of doubt.

"That is undeniably correct," Ken said - as Sadie did what so many fans felt she had her first game, written a correct final response - this time as clear as day.

She even included the questionmark along with her penmanship being pointedly perfect and she was done writing early.

The crowd erupted in applause as fans online went wild over what they called a "Cinderella story."

'EVERYONE WAS ROOTING FOR HER!'

"So good that Sadie won this game. I understand why the judges did what they did, but you know that had to hurt," one fan wrote to Reddit.

"Sadie is 100% my pick for the whole Tournament Of Champions. Cinderella story, here we come" wrote a second.

"Vindication, hell yeah" wrote a third.

"I don’t think I’ve ever heard an applause like that! Everyone was rooting for Sadie," tweeted a fourth.

Sadie now goes to the finals of this week's comeback competition - her earnings tonight don't count.

But her win does - if she wins the two-part match on Thursday and Friday, she'll join last week's winner Jessica Stephens and 19 others in the $250K Tournament of Champions.

POETIC JUSTICE

Sadie's prior loss in regularly airing Jeopardy! came down to one thing - the judge's ruling that her otherwise correct Final Jeopardy! response of "Harriet Tubman" was "incomplete."

Many felt Sadie was misjudged as she would have won if the show ruled in her favor - calling it the season's "most painful loss."

It all kicked off with the Final Jeopardy! clue: "Congratulating her on the 1869 release of her biography, Frederick Douglass wrote, 'I have wrought in the day- you in the night."

After a short time, contestant Molly Fleming correctly answered, "Who is Harriet Tubman," adding $3,200 to her winnings for a total of $6,500.

Then-champ Megan answered correctly to increase her final game total to $17,199.

Sadie also appeared to have the same answer in mind; however, judges off-camera decided she didn't write it out in full.

Mayim Bialik- who is permanently sharing hosting duties with Ken - said: "It looks like you were going for 'Harriet Tubman,' but you did not finish, so, unfortunately, that is not going to be acceptable."

Sadie nodded in agreement but seemed to look disappointed in the results - as were fans to this day.

She ended up wagering $7,500, which would have given her a total of 17,300 if her answer was accepted and would have made her the new champ over Megan.

If Sadie wins this week's bracket in the Second Chance Tournament, she could even theoretically face off against Megan again.

'IT WAS A TOUGH RULING'

In August, Jeopardy! producers broke their silence on the jaw-dropping defeat, claiming that they've "cleaned up some rules" going forward.

In an episode of the Hall of Fame podcast hosted by Executive producer Mike Davies and his co-host, "Clue Crew" member Sarah Foss, Sadie's return was a big topic of discussion.

"Many will remember Sadie. She competed against Megan Wachpress, who you'll see in the Tournament of Champions," Sarah said.

A podcast guest and judge added: "Sadie had a strong game with 32 buzzer attempts. She led Megan going into Final Jeopardy.

"And she had an incomplete written response, and the game went to Megan instead."

Sarah sighed, "This is one of those things we wanted to bring up because it talks about what happens for us as judges in the game.

"When it comes to Final Jeopardy, you have to finish your response."

"We could actually go back and watch the tape, the style pens are timed out to 30 seconds with the music, and they stop working as soon as the time is up.

"In Sadie's case, we did go back.

"We stopped the show, we went back and watched it repeatedly - we can see she went through each of the letters.

"She wrote a 'T-U-B-M-A' and we knew she had not begun to write an N.'"

"I think in hindsight she wished she’d written 'Tubman' and not Harriet Tubman.'

EP Mike then spoke out: "We talked to Sadie. It was a tough ruling, it was a great game, and we're so happy we can invite her back."

"I'm trying to find some way we can find consistency. People cite things from seasons of yore - it's tough for me to deal with that."

Many fans were even happy the new tournament was created just so she could come back.

TOURNAMENT TIME

Jeopardy!'s brand new season premiered on September 12th.

Regular episodes and reigning ace Cris Pannullo will return in a month.

Right now, airing instead is the never-before-done Second Chance Tournament which started last Monday.

Over this and last week, 18 snubbed players that nearly - but didn’t - win during their original games last year are duking it out in a redemption competition.

The players were all picked by the show specifically as those they felt deserved a second chance.

Each week has three semi-final games and a two-night finals with the same three finalists.

Then, the victor of each week will score the two remaining slots in the Tournament of Champions which airs directly afterward - Stephens won the first bracket.

There, they can beat super-champs like Amy Schenider, Matt Amodio, Mattea Roach and Ryan Long - or the legends they lost to - in the following two-week prestigious playoffs, starting Oct. 31st.

Both two-week-long tournaments will be hosted by Ken and will air at the usual time of 7 p.m. on ABC.