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Post by Jordanar18 on Apr 21, 2017 14:16:41 GMT -5
Here are mine:
1. Y - If it's there, it makes those words much, much easier; if it's not, it eliminates odd possibilities like WAY, BUY and longer words.
2. G or H - They're sometimes used together, so picking both is pointless; also, depending on the words, G for the middle of the word, H for the end.
3. An odd letter choice, for me depending on the puzzle. Something like B, F, W, or V.
4. Depends on the puzzle, but the default choice for me would be O.
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Post by tlc38tlc38 on Apr 21, 2017 14:34:14 GMT -5
Depending on the puzzle, I usually pick BGHO or PGHO when I play the Free Play app.
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Post by woffan9821 on Apr 21, 2017 14:38:57 GMT -5
I get a kick out of things that spell something out, like when YMCA was called. Personally, I don't see anything immediately wrong with GFMO ( unless you go backwards), but I would probably want to look at stats to see which 3C1V is most common.
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Post by tlc38tlc38 on Apr 21, 2017 14:42:25 GMT -5
^I know my choices are somewhat based on the stats but sometimes stats blow when the puzzle is full of J, Q, V, X, & Z.
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Post by tonyscv on Apr 21, 2017 18:11:03 GMT -5
H is good because it can be silent often. B is a solid choice, and for the others - if you have an idea of what the puzzle may be, pick OTHER letters (i.e not the letters you think are there). Doing so will simultaneously help confirm your suspicion and bail you out if you were wrong.  |
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Post by finalspin on Apr 21, 2017 19:04:48 GMT -5
My preference if I don't know any of the puzzle is YGHO. Y is a sleeper pick which I have seen around in harder BRs, G and H are common letters and even if they do appear together having them both showing can make the puzzle a lot easier to solve, and O is the usual best vowel. It's also the letter combo used in the first episode I watched in full (Robert Santoli's) and the closest you can get to Yu-Gi-Oh in terms of letters. If I know an O is up there, I would switch to I, and if I know any of my consonants are up there, I switch the one I know to P (if there are 2 known ones, I go for B or C, depending on my mood, as the other).
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Post by fanofpatsajak on May 9, 2017 18:54:54 GMT -5
My strategy would be CDMA unless an N would appear in the 2nd-to-last position, then the strategy would change 2 CDGI!!
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Post by MarioGS on May 9, 2017 19:04:11 GMT -5
My strategy would be CDMA unless an N would appear in the 2nd-to-last position, then the strategy would change 2 CDGI!! Not a good idea unless the show is in a generous mood. The thing about choosing your letters in the Bonus Round is that your picks are numbered, but there's no penalty if you choose a wrong letter like in the regular rounds. If you know a word with RSTLNE is going to end in -ING, then you pick CDGI, you don't know anything more than that -ING unless you're lucky enough to get C's and D's elsewhere. And the show is well aware that CDMAH are the next most common letters after RSTLNE so they mostly set up the Bonus Round so that CDMA will only reveal one or two letters while a combo about a tier down, like GHPO or BFYI, will fill in more letters. |
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Post by fanofpatsajak on Jun 3, 2017 18:38:00 GMT -5
My strategy: Call CDMA & take my chances!
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Post by ld on Jun 3, 2017 19:38:05 GMT -5
The amount of contestants inappropriately calling 'M' in the Bonus Round is just so baffling. It's rarely ever the main key letter needed and it has a high chance of being a dead letter - yet contestants who don't know the puzzle insists on calling it still.
It makes no sense.
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Post by Hirsk26 on Jun 4, 2017 11:12:14 GMT -5
Simple, HDCA
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Post by therealcu2010 on Jun 8, 2017 7:45:32 GMT -5
FCKU. Just because.
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Post by vowela on Jun 8, 2017 14:06:05 GMT -5
It's an interesting question, and I don't think it's necessarily the letters that appear most often that are the best to call. G, in particular, feels like it appears a lot more often than it being an especially helpful letter in solving the puzzle.
O is undeniably good. Aside from being the most frequent vowel, it's also seems to be the key letter a lot more often than the other vowels. B, F, H, and P all seem to be used as key letters very often when those shows up, and I'm tempted to say BFHO might be the best way to go, with P being a good wild card letter. J feels like a decent bonus round pick too, really, but just doesn't appear often enough to justify calling it over some other choices.
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Post by shaymin on Jun 8, 2017 20:05:34 GMT -5
O U I'm in the BGHO camp, though I might swap in a P somewhere (like if there's a T_E revealed). |
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Post by armadilloal on Jun 19, 2017 0:30:43 GMT -5
In a vacuum, CHPO, but it's impossible to say since what I pick will almost certainly depend on what's already on the board.
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