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Post by MarioGS on Mar 22, 2014 17:17:21 GMT -5
Wheel made a video on their official YouTube channel featuring 5 amazing solves (from recent seasons)... The episodes featured in order are... - December 14, 2007 (S-4750, Choose Your Own Vacation #5)
- December 1, 2009 (S-5127, Pet Lovers #2)
- December 5, 2010 (S-5305, Wheel Loves L.A. #5)
- May 30, 2013 (S-5839, Celebrating 30! #4)
- March 19, 2014 (S-5983, America's Game III #3)
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Post by djcchs2004 on Mar 22, 2014 18:34:09 GMT -5
They forgot THOUGHTFULNESS and FOREVER YOUNG, both from this season, and BRIEF PAUSE from 2009 season. I was going to say GOLPER back in 2001 but I guess the show want to focus on current seasons.
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Post by germanname1990 on Mar 22, 2014 19:12:41 GMT -5
Some of the Greats Week, anyone? Anyone? |
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Post by wheelgenius on Mar 22, 2014 20:58:07 GMT -5
These puzzle solvings are amazing indeed. Could it be pure luck?
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Post by germanname1990 on Mar 22, 2014 22:30:08 GMT -5
I believe luck is more than getting a good feeling about this puzzle, WheelGenius. As it is in trivia shows, it's also about having prior knowledge. The luck is actually whether you knew about it or not. That's one of the things I've learned about game shows.
John Carpenter, Ken Jennings, and other big winners won big on trivia shows simply because they had the luck of getting questions (answers in Jennings' case) that they knew the answer (question in Jennings' case) to. It's hardly any different on Wheel of Fortune.
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Post by MarioGS on Mar 23, 2014 0:16:48 GMT -5
You know...all this hype from the show and Pat about Emil's solve being the most amazing solve ever is making me doubt the rumored "BABY BOY" no-letter BR solve ever happened. I mean, why would nobody even bring that up among all of this media hype?
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Post by tenpoundhammer on Mar 23, 2014 1:34:18 GMT -5
^ Because it was 22 years ago, probably hasn't been rerun in over a decade, never circulated on YouTube, and is only known about by a very small contingent of people?
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Post by WarioSajak on Mar 23, 2014 3:27:35 GMT -5
...Five is way too small a number to limit this to, and there's definitely some amazing solves before Season 25...Friedman. Hell, the 1987 Sams/Shook Wheel book mentions three players managed to solve a puzzle with one letter showing as of 8/1/87! Quite a few amazing solves, mostly in the Bonus Round, were shown during the ceremonial 3,000th and 4,000th nighttime shows, including CLEVELAND OHIO with just the N showing (late Season 2, I think) for $5,000 -- plus two people managed to solve FROG with just the R showing! Honestly, TV Tropes (which, on a side note, is a site Matt Ottinger vehemently hates) has an Awesome Moments page for Wheel that's filled with these things, so it's not like there's a shortage of things to choose from. As a result, this comes across more as "Top 5 Solves we can think of without having to pay music or announcer royalties". You know...all this hype from the show and Pat about Emil's solve being the most amazing solve ever is making me doubt the rumored "BABY BOY" no-letter BR solve ever happened. I mean, why would nobody even bring that up among all of this media hype? ^ Because it was 22 years ago, probably hasn't been rerun in over a decade, never circulated on YouTube, and is only known about by a very small contingent of people? Assuming that the puzzle was actually BABY BOY -- I've seen some people claiming it was one word or the other. Further, said solve apparently happened in Season 10, which GSN last aired over in October 1998 -- over 15 years ago. Plus, you know, it happened in the Pre-Friedman era of Wheel history.  |
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