Game show junkie, hoping third time's the charm!

Welcome! (And thanks for indirectly leading her here, TPH)

Checking your games on J! Archive, I see you've won $105,203 over the course of 4 days. Major congrats! How did you do on Millionaire?

Don't panic. The second audition is very fun. Just always smile and clap (don't stop, or it might cost you), call your letters and solve puzzles clearly and without hesitating, and use logical letters and strategies. Also, if they perceive a letter that's different from the one you called, DO NOT correct them. I did that at my audition (said T, they heard Z, which was still up there) and I think it may have cost me becoming a contestant, so wait for the room's applause to die down before your call.

Any other questions or advice, just ask. There are plenty of other members here that can help.

Oh, and I like your avatar. Did you make it?

Yay, I was helpful.

Anywho, welcome to the board. Your avatar's... interesting. Is there a backstory?

Thank you, that was very helpful advice!  TPH, no special story with my avatar, my friend just loves drawing people as animals, especially squirrels!

So I had my audition yesterday, I think it went fairly well. They are auditioning more people today, they said.

At 3:30 the doors opened at the hotel conference room in Baltimore. There were about 50 people in our group, some from the Wheelmobile event in October, and some from the "Face of the Fan" video entry that I did. We all got called to stand up where we were and call letters for the puzzle on the overhead screen. I was complimented by Jackie on my loud, clear voice, and I solved my puzzle and won a tote bag. I was surprised by how many people still called letters that had already been called or didn't speak up at this audition.

The test was hard! I got nine right out of fifteen, and partially completed a few more. I missed them looking for 30-year-olds by one year, darn it. The hotel had provided us with pitchers of water and mints in the back of the room, which was a nice touch.

20 people passed the test and went to the next round, including me! I was in a smart row, the two people next to me also passed. Then we got to go up and play the game again, this time introducing ourselves and giving a short bio and any interesting hobbies. We spun an imaginary wheel while Jackie spun the portable one. I solved another puzzle that round.

After that, they went into the back room, then came back and called five people to play the game again. I don't know if that means I'm already out, or they just were on the fence about those five. They said we'll get a letter in the mail in two weeks if we made it. We were out of there at 6 p.m., into a torrential downpour. I lost one of my windshield wipers on the way home and had to keep craning my neck around to the side of the windshield that was clear, but it was worth it!

And now I wait.

Thanks for the reassurance! I'll be hoping for a very special Valentine in two weeks!

All my friends assumed I would do great on the test since I'm a Jeopardy champion, but the shows have a different set of skills involved for sure.  My husband is much better at solving WOF puzzles but the great tragedy is the world will never know because he's so soft-spoken they would never pick him.

I was very nervous about how I'd do on the test.  So in the past week I played the WOF game on facebook and tried to solve all the puzzles after I only had one or two letters.  That seemed to help calm me down.  Does anyone know what the passing grade is supposed to be?  One of the women I hung out with before the doors opened said she got "about half" right and she wasn't asked to stay.  I wonder if I just passed.

They never reveal the official cutoff, but my personal goal was 12. If you have a great presence and can play the game well under pressure, you stand a good chance to advance in the selection process. The test for Wheel is way harder than the test for Jeopardy, which I've taken twice. You've got to manage 16 puzzles all at once in 5 minutes. That's 18 seconds per puzzle. Since I'm a test prep instructor, I was able to "practice what I preach" and used some great time management strategies to do very well on the test. I also paid very close attention to the instructions that the coordinators gave and did a brief rundown in my head of which puzzles to solve first, since they told the categories in advance.

As someone also pretty new, I have a question about this for everyone?   Are "BGHO", the consensus picks for the Bonus round?   

It tends to be that way.  Over the last few years, calling BGHO tends to make more letters appear than CDMA, which was the "magic combo" for most of the '90s.  In fact, it worked out for me last night when I was playing a Wheel video game.  I never would've solved BUDDY HOLLY if I had called CDMA.  There will, of course, always be some differences, but BGHO has tended to work out better than CDMA.  Some people have also suggested that FGHI works pretty well, too.