I also would be interested at how quickly contestants would come up with their letter choices. It seemed oddly fast. I would think you'd want to take a moment to digest the board after the big six pop up.
On Jun 1, 2013, at 10:27 AM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > It's been a while since I watched regularly, but what I see when I do watch > is that C, D, M, and A are the contestant's choices so frequently and so > rarely useful in solving that I assume the puzzle-writers take them into > account when creating bonus puzzles. > > Also impacting the difficulty is the way that two-word persons, places, or > things are very often a noun and an adjective which make sense together but > don't carry a specific connotation as a phrase. (e.g., "muscular arm" is more > likely to come up than "broken arm".) > > On 31 May 2013 19:04, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> 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 [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > David J. Lynch > [email protected] > -- > -- > 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 [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
