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Re: Wheel Of Fortune

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MrCrowesGarden wrote:Last night's final puzzle was "woks and pans."
Do they still give you RSTLNE? That would mean:

_ _ _ S _ N _ _ _ NS

If you then go with P, D & A among your next bunch (I'd say the most advantageous of common next-level letters) you'd have

_ _ _ S AND PANS

and I would probably spend the whole clock going "How the heck is this not Pots and Pans?"

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33anda3rd wrote:
MrCrowesGarden wrote:Last night's final puzzle was "woks and pans."
Do they still give you RSTLNE? That would mean:

_ _ _ S _ N _ _ _ NS

If you then go with P, D & A among your next bunch (I'd say the most advantageous of common next-level letters) you'd have

_ _ _ S AND PANS

and I would probably spend the whole clock going "How the heck is this not Pots and Pans?"

It looks like the woman chose B D H A, but that still leaves you with:

_ _ _ S AND _ ANS

and yeah, I'd still think it was pots and pans. Normally, I'm really cognizant of the RSTLNE but in that one I would swear there's a malfunction.

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A couple years ago the clue was "around the house" and the final puzzle was "A VERY HANDY MAN."

It was so bad my mom immediately called me to see if I had watched it.

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In their defense, people started gaming the system and were memorizing phrases.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... one+letter

Don't know if that search will work, but they were running into issues where people could get the phrase with a letter or two up there.

I don't watch the show all that much, so don't really care. But, it makes sense why they did it.

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I don't know if that's gaming the system. Hell, I remember as a kid solving a puzzle on TV with NO letters revealed. The category was very specific (landmark) and just by seeing the letters up there, my knee jerk reaction was "The Washington Monument." And once you think see something like that, it's hard to un-see it until you're provided with information to the contrary.

Besides, so much of the show is gameplay to begin with. Category is "what are you doing?"? You've got an -ing word up there. "Things?" Since you know it's plural, S is even safer than it usually is (and if there's a three letter word in the middle, it's probably "and.") "Occupation"? Guess R. "Title" and the first word is three letters? 9/10 times it's "the." It's no different than figuring out the basics of any game show.

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This thread caused me to fall into a youtube wheel of fortune hole that I never wanted to be in.

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Just on. The final clue.

RSTLNE DPCOH

"Living thing"

_ O _ N _
_ _ C _ R _ _ _ _ T
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Welcome to the resistance

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They only have, what, five or six puzzles a night. 200 nights a year for 30 years or whatever. Seems impossible to me that they can't come up with unique puzzles that don't involve random BS words thrown in. My guess is Pat and Vanna's HGH budget has gotten so expensive they had to make the show harder to win.

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