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Post by jonsea31 on Sept 23, 2011 18:20:58 GMT -5
I remember in the 1990s, some bonus round puzzles consisted of only 3 letters. Some examples I remember seeing were: - HAM
- FIG
- WIG
- ZOO
- JAM
- GUM (on a Bob Goen NBC episode from 1991)
- GEM
- OWL (which was eventually recycled in the nighttime run)
- GUY (which I saw on YouTube but not in first-run on when GSN aired it)
- WAX (saw it on YouTube and downloaded it just before the infamous Sony purge)
- HUG (which I read about on the Wheel of Fortune timeline site, and GSN aired it on their last contract)
- I DO (which holds the shortest 2-word puzzle ever used on WOF's history, and two-thirds of the puzzle were vowels!)
A lot of 3-letter puzzles contained a "G", as far as I remember. The shortest puzzle ever used consisted of only 2 letters. It was AX. Had the contestant called an A, all he/she had to do was go through the alphabet, and by the time he/she would have gotten to X, time would have been nearly up or would have expired. BTW, was DOG ever used as a bonus round puzzle? And what are some other examples of 3-letter puzzles other than the ones I mentioned? |
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Post by tenpoundhammer on Sept 23, 2011 19:44:36 GMT -5
Any idea when AX was used?
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Post by jonsea31 on Sept 23, 2011 21:09:23 GMT -5
I definitely remember seeing the AX puzzle on a Saturday encore in the vicinity of June 1995. So if I were to hazard a guess, the AX puzzle aired sometime in the 1993-94 season.
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Post by gamedude2330 on Sept 24, 2011 14:35:51 GMT -5
Has YOU ever been used as a bonus round puzzle?
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Post by germanname1990 on Sept 29, 2011 22:22:37 GMT -5
I don't know if "I've" ever been used as a bonus round puzzle,  (listen, I just wanted to have fun with that, gamedude  ) but as for that Ax puzzle, did you bring that up because it was a puzzle on the SEGA CD version of Wheel, jonsea31? Yes, I had that happen to me once, and it was a round two puzzle when I played it. The strange thing is that I remember round two puzzles back in the early to mid 90s for being usually big. Yeah, like have that be a bonus round puzzle and have the contestant say CDMO. |
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Post by nicky on Sept 30, 2011 1:43:57 GMT -5
I definitely remember seeing the AX puzzle on a Saturday encore in the vicinity of June 1995. So if I were to hazard a guess, the AX puzzle aired sometime in the 1993-94 season. Actually, if you can believe it, I remember the date of the Saturday rerun and it was July 15, 1995! So close enough! |
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Post by Guint on Sept 30, 2011 15:14:28 GMT -5
Me wonders if there were ever more 2-letter puzzles. OX? ME? TO? IT? OF? ON? NO? WE? OR? IS? IF? AN? AM? AS? AT? BE? DO? This could be a whole new category..."MINIWORD!" ...or maybe not.  |
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Post by therealcu2010 on Sept 30, 2011 15:27:35 GMT -5
Don't give me any ideas. |
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Post by tenpoundhammer on Oct 17, 2011 14:18:47 GMT -5
Jonsea, do you remember the dates on any of these? I have OWL, WAX, GUY, WIG, ZOO and HUG on my timeline.
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Post by kprather895 on Mar 5, 2012 21:14:31 GMT -5
The short bonus round puzzles were one of my favorite things about 90s WoF. As for a two-letter puzzle, I couldn't imagine one other than AX or OX, unless you wanted to get clever with OZ as a place, or if you wanna be really clever, UP as a place.
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Post by WarioSajak on Mar 6, 2012 3:04:33 GMT -5
^OZ would best fit under Fictional Place, while UP would best fit as Movie Title. Either could work if the show felt particularly cheap. (Apparently the puzzles are chosen by an independent attorney, or at least they were at some point. Must get the cream of the crop, this guy.  ) Alternately, if they wanted to be semi-obscure-but-not-really, they could use Fictional Place for DENNIS. |
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(listen, I just wanted to have fun with that, gamedude 
) but as for that Ax puzzle, did you bring that up because it was a puzzle on the SEGA CD version of Wheel, jonsea31? Yes, I had that happen to me once, and it was a round two puzzle when I played it. The strange thing is that I remember round two puzzles back in the early to mid 90s for being usually big. Yeah, like have that be a bonus round puzzle and have the contestant say CDMO.
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