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Post by MarioGS on Apr 14, 2021 12:11:42 GMT -5
The only punctuation marks Wheel has never used during actual gameplay puzzles in terms of grammar are quotation marks and commas. The only known time Wheel used a comma was during a Fill in the Number puzzle with a five-digit number. It was also used for a T-Mobile sweepstakes puzzle earlier this season, and is also sometimes used for promotional photos or when the staff likes to put messages on the board such as "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOE!". There was also a Wheel reference on last night's episode of The Tonight Show, which featured brief footage of an episode with the puzzle edited to an explicit Phrase that included a comma.
Do you think it's time Wheel should start using commas in their puzzles, or do you think it's fine without them? Could the commas maybe take up unnecessary space or make puzzles too easy?
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Post by pannoni1 on Apr 14, 2021 16:34:18 GMT -5
The period wasn't used until sometime in the early '90s, with hyphens and apostrophes dominating the early years of wheel, with the ampersand of course joining in 1989 with the format change of Same Name. I don't think the question marks were used before the introduction of Fill In The Blank. That's why you got the UK-style "Dr" in some early puzzles for instance. Of course quotation marks aren't necessary since there's a category for them. The colon has even been used (though about as often as the now-defunct Nickname category). I still feel for Phrase and the plural categories with a list of things, it could make sense, but for now, it appears to just be a stylistic choice by the staff. I honestly don't feel the comma would make solving the puzzles that much easier though.
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Post by jjc927 on Apr 17, 2021 14:54:08 GMT -5
I don't think it would make a real difference either way.
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