Number 14 is in: record holder Jan de Troij again wins in ‘Blocks’ (Antwerp)
With 34 seconds on surplus, the record holder guessed the right word in the final game. – © VRT
What did Antwerpenaar Jan de Troij (26) do on Wednesday Block? Winning of course! The record has been put sharper again, on Thursday he will return for his fifteenth participation.
On Tuesday there was still stress to break the record of Kiana Buttiens, which was no longer the case on Wednesday. Jan de Troij visibly started his fourteenth participation visibly more at ease. In the conversation in advance he told Ben Crabbé that he could not have said so many people about his record; Logical if you know that the episodes were already recorded a while ago. Jan had to remain silent about his stunt to outsiders until Tuesday evening.
In Wednesday’s episode he took on the young Lander Baeten from Bierbeek. Just like Tuesday, the first round was a walk-over from the record holder. He quickly won 250-30. The second round was also a hit with 500 points. After the preliminary round, Jan won with an impressive 1,210 points compared to 390 points for his unfortunate opponent, who situated in Northern France with the last question.
Fiddling
‘At the fair’ was the tip in the final game. With 34 seconds on the counter, Jan guessed the correct answer, ‘fishing’. Ben in particular broke a sigh of relief, because without the first letter of the word, Jan was in the dark for a long time. « At first I got very general letters, such as the ‘E’ and the ‘N’. I couldn’t do much with that, » he explains. But with the ‘H’ the penny fell anyway.
« You already have 14,000 euros. I’m going to get a phone call from the big boss of the VRT. This is unbelievable, and it goes on, » Crabbé joked. So it can be even more. On to number 15.
‘Blocks’, Monday to Friday at 6.35 pm on VRT1 and VRT Max
