orger said:

contestants that buy unnecessary vowels

prove that we have lots more evolving to do

That is my big pet peeve when I watch, I can't believe some people are so foolish!

sextonseven said:

Serena said:

Would she still have won the trip if she would have put up a letter and spun again? Maybe the fact that she didn't build up the pot first indicates that it was a lucky guess?

If she would have spun again, Pat would have pressed the "Bankrupt" or "Lose A Turn" button under the podium. It's best to solve the puzzle as soon as you know.

Yeah, probably, heh.

I knew it before I saw the "L"

NDRU said:

I knew it before I saw the "L"

FauxReal said:

I think it's possible. I looked at it and it took me 10 seconds. The apostrophe does give it away.

Not that I expect anyone to believe me.

Uh, 10 seconds, maybe. But less than 3??? The audience was still clappin' when she was ready to solve.

Shenanigans!

[Edited 11/9/10 11:03am]

Serena said:

Well, she was stupid as fuck for solving it right off the bat! I mean even if she'd spun a 'lose turn' or whatever, she'd probably get at least one more chance, why not wait until there's some money in the pot from the puzzle?

[Edited 11/9/10 8:35am]

That's what I was thinking! What a dummy! Another stupid-ass thing people do on this show is buy obvious vowels when they already know the puzzle! On one show this one fool had all the letters to the puzzle except the vowels. I mean a 7-year old could have solved the puzzle without the vowels, the answer to the puzzle was so obvious. What did asshole do? Bought all the vowels to complete the words and dropped his winnings by several hundred dollars. IDIOT!

It was a prize puzzle. She even confirms it with Pat before solving. The dollar value of the prize is added to your daily total. A lot of people make it to the bonus round these days because they won that round.

I didn't see the epidsode, but they showed it on the news and I was able to figure out half of it based on the snippet they showed. If I'd have had a few more seconds to look at it, I might have figured it out. I don't think it's implausible that she figured it out.

i used to watch the show with my mom and sometimes she would get them with very few letters and even I got a few with just a few. Not so much based on the letters I saw but on the ones that I did not see.

Perhaps she had a good feeling about it...

Mars23 said:

Perhaps she had a good feeling about it...

So did the producer she screwed

SCNDLS said:

Mars23 said:

Perhaps she had a good feeling about it...

So did the producer she screwed

If a guy had guessed it in three seconds, whom would he have slept with to get the answer?

sextonseven said:

SCNDLS said:

So did the producer she screwed

If a guy had guessed it in three seconds, whom would he have slept with to get the answer?

Vanna, duh! Or maybe the producer likes the boys.

SCNDLS said:

sextonseven said:

If a guy had guessed it in three seconds, whom would he have slept with to get the answer?

Vanna, duh! Or maybe the producer likes the boys.

Is Vanna so old and rickety now that the show has to bribe male contestants with a prize to get her laid?

sextonseven said:

SCNDLS said:

Vanna, duh! Or maybe the producer likes the boys.

Is Vanna so old and rickety now that the show has to bribe male contestants with a prize to get her laid?

Stop making me think about Vanna's snatch!

Cerebus said:

Somtimes they just pop into your head, and some people have more of a gift in that regard. My aunt was one of those people. She was ridiculously good at Wheel of Fortune. We tried to get her to go on the show for many years but she wouldn't do it. She was convinced it would be different if you were standing there playing the game, rather than watching on TV.

My mom knew a woman who was a contestant on the show years ago. She said that it is VERY different acutually being there. There is so much going on around you on set, that one can get distracted.