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Post by MarioGS on Jan 15, 2018 23:21:04 GMT -5
What bonus puzzles have you seen on the show that you felt were just plain cruel? From the actual show only, nothing from mock games, "what if"s, or DPG.
Here are some of my nominees:
04/18/05: BAZOOKA JOE
02/16/06: JUICE BOX
03/02/06: DUBUQUE IOWA
03/05/08: UTAH JAZZ
06/05/08: IOWANS
04/05/10: BUZZING WITH EXCITEMENT
11/24/11: FAVORITE MUG
12/14/12: JACK BE QUICK
12/21/12: HIT THE BUZZER
05/03/13: FIZZLE OUT
05/10/13: ZIP UP YOUR JACKET
05/23/13: FINICKY BABY
10/01/15: VACUUM-PACKED BAGS
04/29/16: QUICK FIXES
05/02/17: JUST A QUICK PEEK
11/19/17: GYPSY MOTH
12/11/17: QUICK JOG IN THE PARK
01/15/18: TAKING A POP QUIZ
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Post by Bryce L. on Jan 15, 2018 23:22:51 GMT -5
Don't have any to contribute, but I'd like to ask a question of my own... what are the hardest bonus puzzles you've seen that have still produced a win?
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Post by MarioGS on Jan 15, 2018 23:32:16 GMT -5
Don't have any to contribute, but I'd like to ask a question of my own... what are the hardest bonus puzzles you've seen that have still produced a win? 04/24/03: JOCKEY 12/19/08: JIGSAW PUZZLE 02/15/10: I'M PUZZLED 10/05/10: QUICK DECISION (the only known bonus puzzle with QUICK that was won) 04/01/13: QUART OF PAINT 12/10/13: QUAINT VILLAGE 10/15/14: JUICE BAR 01/27/15: BUBBLY SOAP 03/31/15: WACKY NEIGHBOR 04/28/15: WISP OF HAIR 12/08/16: QUAINT COTTAGE 11/23/17: LOGIC PUZZLE Oh, and ahem... NEW BABY BUGGY. |
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Post by woffan9821 on Jan 15, 2018 23:39:03 GMT -5
Any three letter BR from season 10 or earlier. Looking at you WAX/ZOO.
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Post by jacobr1020 on Jan 15, 2018 23:52:05 GMT -5
GULF
KEYHOLE
FROG (Twice!)
BABY BOY
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Post by Flerbert419 on Jan 15, 2018 23:55:25 GMT -5
5/19/95: GUY (Person)
Just no way to get any help and it's such a random answer.
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Post by tenpoundhammer on Jan 15, 2018 23:58:50 GMT -5
I didn't think GYPSY MOTH was hard at all. PHGO and you're set.
I remember seeing QUIZ SHOW on a Season 6 episode once.
In the five-and-a-vowel era, TWO IF BY SEA was the hardest I'd seen by far. Fake difficulty by only using half the quotation to begin with, and even with RSTLNE that one's nearly impossible.
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Post by germanname1990 on Jan 16, 2018 0:54:22 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 10:08:31 GMT -5
OCEAN KAYAKING. Just screw that puzzle.
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Post by MarioGS on Jan 16, 2018 13:07:53 GMT -5
11/16/09: OUTFOXED AGAIN
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Post by mechamind on Jan 16, 2018 13:23:26 GMT -5
THAT'S IFFY from 1999. Neither CDMA or BGHO would have done any favors here.
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Post by tonyscv on Jan 16, 2018 16:25:43 GMT -5
From this season...
KARAOKE PARTY
No one is picking a K.
A MINOR QUIBBLE is also tough.
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Post by tenpoundhammer on Jan 16, 2018 20:05:41 GMT -5
SKIP IT from sometime around 1999. That's another rare one where PHGO and CDMA are equally useless.
I also remember WIVES being a BR sometime around 2004.
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Post by sswagner on Jan 18, 2018 8:48:31 GMT -5
TAKING A POP QUIZ was brutal. I did not see that, and I am a teacher! Guess it is because pop quizzes are not really that common around here.
Q and Z are probably not getting called, and U is an unlikely candidate with the vowel. If P is not one of the chosen letters, then all you are going to see for the last two words is maybe the O or the I if they were called. Then you get either _O_ ____ or ___ __I_ in the absence of the P. Most people had "TAKING A" figured out, but this puzzle seems designed to not be solved.
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Post by tlc38tlc38 on Jan 18, 2018 9:55:02 GMT -5
PARQUET FLOORS 9/21/09
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Post by MarioGS on Jan 18, 2018 10:08:40 GMT -5
^ And IIRC, the contestant actually knew PARQUET but not FLOOR!
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Post by tenpoundhammer on Jan 18, 2018 14:20:34 GMT -5
A few I scooped up from a quick database search:
4/14/94: SKIS (actually was solved!)
1/30/95: SKIN (pretty much the same reason; who's gonna pick a K?)
5/6/96: YOLK
9/3/97: JARGON
9/29/98: DAB OF JELLY
2/14/03: WIDOW'S PEAK
2/20/03: PARKA & GLOVES
2/27/03: FAVORS
5/8/03: SHINY BUGLE (dafuq?)
9/25/03: QUICK AS A WINK
1/19/04: WAIKIKI BEACH
4/2/04 and 10/12/09: SQUEAKING BY
4/15/04: JURY BOX
5/20/04: PAJAMA TOP (forced difficulty because "pajama" is almost never singular)
9/14/04: LOOKING SPIFFY
10/11/04: A WINDY BLUFF
12/14/05: OAK BUREAU
3/24/06: MATH QUIZ (this one was actually solved!)
3/27/06: FLUFF AND FOLD (again, dafuq)
3/30/06: KUWAIT
4/7/06: JAZZ GUITAR
4/21/06 and 5/26/11: QUITE A JOLT
5/8/06: NO EASY FIX
9/20/06: QUICK STUDY (also showed up in Season 6 IIRC)
10/24/06: QUICK PACE
4/16/07: KITTY HAWK
5/23/07: BYLAWS
11/15/07: FUZZY MEMORY
12/10/07: WIVES
1/29/08: QUEBEC CANADA
2/6/08: SQUEAKY DOOR
2/28/08: KNOWING WINK
3/5/08: UTAH JAZZ
3/17/08: BUZZING SOUND
6/5/08: IOWANS
9/18/08: JUKEBOX
12/4/08: COZY CAFE (random adjective, Z, and ignorance of diacritical marks...)
1/13/09: PEACH FUZZ
2/27/09: HOT WAX
3/4/09: JUST WIN
4/1/09: TRIVIA QUIZ
4/9/09: QUIRK OF FATE
11/3/09: BUY NOW
11/18/09: WHIZ KIDS
2/9/10: QUICK PEEK
4/5/10: BUZZING WITH EXCITEMENT
12/22/10: SQUAT DOWN (as opposed to what, squatting up?)
12/23/10: WAX FIGURE
1/3/11: HAZY SKY
3/18/11: FOUR QUARTS
6/2/11: AT THE BUZZER
6/7/11: AWKWARD PHASE
3/30/12: IN THE MIX
12/14/12: JACK BE QUICK
12/21/12: HIT THE BUZZER
3/4/13: VACUUMING
5/3/13: FIZZLE OUT
5/29/13: WILDLY HAPPY GUY
6/10/13: QUILTING
11/13/13: PAVED BIKEWAY
12/18/13: QUIRKY PERSONALITY
1/15/14: BEVELED FRAME
2/17/14: WAFFLING
3/27/14: JACUZZI BUBBLES
9/22/14: JAZZ FESTIVAL
12/4/14: FUZZY EARMUFFS
12/31/14: BUZZWORD
3/31/15: WACKY NEIGHBOR (still in the top 10 of BR solves IMO)
9/23/15: HI FOLKS
10/9/15: WAXING MY CAR
11/6/15: QUICK GUIDE
4/18/16: FUZZY BEARD
4/29/16: QUICK FIXES
5/27/16: QUIRKY CHARACTER
11/30/16: A UNIQUE VOICE
1/20/17: DABBLING IN MAGIC
5/2/17: JUST A QUICK PEEK
11/14/17: A MINOR QUIBBLE
12/11/17: QUICK JOG IN THE PARK
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Post by cowheelfan on Jan 18, 2018 23:22:11 GMT -5
“Dabbling In Magic” was for sure the last time I felt indignant towards a bonus round puzzle... I don’t know what the heck that was. That genuinely felt like random words strung together.
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Post by tenpoundhammer on Jan 19, 2018 17:44:10 GMT -5
JULY was a bonus puzzle in 1998 or so. As Thing no less. That one is literally impossible, given the tough letters and blatantly wrong category
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Post by MarioGS on Jan 19, 2018 17:47:19 GMT -5
So the show's insistence that names of days and months are Things and not Events dates back even earlier than the 2010's. Good to know...
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