I am not a Wheel Watcher (as the old promo went), but on the occasional chances I do catch it, I've always been impressed with how the writers have mastered the art of the bonus round puzzle.
Because the contestants now get the big six (R, S, T, L, N, E), the puzzle writers have made it a game of chance on which letters you pick with your three consonants and a vowel. They have two basic rules: * a two or three word puzzle. * a letter pattern that makes it very easy to solve if you pick the right one or two letters, but almost impossible to do without it. Thursday night, Autumn Ernhard faced this "thing": T _ _ _ _ _ _ R _ _ _ T. She called for an M, P, C, and A. She picked up a Wild Card during the game (giving her a fourth consonant), and she called for a G. The board returned: T _ _ G _ _ _ R _ _ _ T http://youtu.be/dFfRASXusQo One of the things I find interesting is that the next frequent consonants are C, D, P and the next vowel is either A (Oxford English Dictionary) or I (Scrabble Words). I'd assign a clone to see how frequently these letters are called by players if I had one. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
