Best Bonus Round Category to Chose?

I know MarioGS has. He updates it in the Friday recaps every couple weeks, which you can check most recently at the end of the December 22 Recap.

Essentially, don't choose What Are You Wearing?.

Okay, I have not been a contestant on Wheel of Fortune, nor am I currently in the contestant pool. But that doesn't mean I cannot offer advice, right?

What I would do is when you play along at home by watching the show, or by playing any video game versions of WOF (the current one on Xbox One/PS4 to be precise), make a tally of how many puzzles you got right, and the categories of those puzzles that you solved correctly.

(Kind of off-topic, but playing the Twitter Toss-Up also helps when preparing for your upcoming taping, as you'll be playing along with other people trying to solve the puzzle before you.)

Jumping back on topic, it doesn't necessarily have to be a Bonus Round puzzle that you keep a tally of; just any puzzle, really.

By keeping a tally chart, you'll be able to know what puzzle categories are you strengths, and which puzzle categories are you weaknesses.

Also, remember, try to pick the category that is going to be more specific. For example, if your choices were Person, Place, or Thing, Place may be the best category to pick, as it is the most specific of the three. (Unless Place is not one of your strongest puzzle categories.)

I hope this helps. Best of luck when you tape!

- acwof

Go for On the Map if it's a choice, no question. Stay away from What Are You Wearing?. Only pick What Are You Doing? if you know to avoid the G and I traps, but even then, consider the other two.

Also keep in mind that the show appears to have completely dropped one-word puzzles and punctuation in the Bonus Round.

Thanks everyone for all the good advice. My first goal is to be the big winner, but I want to be prepared in all aspects of the game and all this information really helps.

tvdave

^ That was one thing I had in mind on my episode. My first puzzle had a quadruple letter left on the board, but I didn't spin for it because I knew my spins were inching closer and closer to the Bankrupt by Free Play. And I was up $6,150 ($3,150 from that round, plus the first two Toss-Ups), so I knew that solving would give me a comfortable early lead.

Also, vowels are important. In my game's Prize Puzzle round, I could see that the U was still on the used letter board after yellow bought an I that was not in the puzzle. So the U obviously had to be somewhere in the puzzle. While blue was spinning, I was trying to see if I could mentally plug the U anywhere into the puzzle. So when it came back to me, I had the answer and solved despite not having any money, because that guaranteed me the trip. (Remember that, too -- if it gets back around to you, you don't automatically have to spin. If you have money when it gets back around, try buying a vowel if any remain.)

I also called a vowel in the Speed-Up because I figured that it would give me information. Far too often I see contestants call wrong consonant after wrong consonant in the Speed-Up because they're trying to rack up money. Especially if you're ahead, pick a vowel, because it might just give you valuable information. In my case, both of the E's in the Speed-Up puzzle were in strategic locations, so they primed me for solving when it got back around.

An appropriate example for your post (the puzzle, and the strategy )... 16:03 in...

I'm just wondering if these will ever show up:

TITLE
TV TITLE
MOVIE TITLE
SONG TITLE
SONG LYRICS
RHYME TIME
PROPER NAME
LANDMARK
QUOTATION