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24. There is also a used letter board that the participants can look at to help them keep track of which consonants and sounds have already been mentioned.

“You never see that at home, but our players do,” Pat said in the same video. “So every time a letter is called, that letter comes out, that light goes out, and they don’t know how to call it again — unless they call it again … they’re down.”

25. If you love the Toss Up puzzles, you can thank Pat for that. As he explained, Wheel of Fortune faced a challenge:

“How do we get more content and not take up a lot of time?” Pat told Maggie. “So I came up with the Toss Up puzzles, and they worked really well. And then our producer added the Triple Toss Up. And then I added the idea of ​​$10,000 if you get all three, because it doesn’t my money is, what do I care?

26. In January 2015, reporter Christopher Ingraham published an analysis for The Washington Post that saw 1,546 final bonus puzzles from 2007 to that year. Based on his research, he wrote that H, G, P, and O were the letters most likely to be correct in these puzzles (taking into account that the participants already knew the letters R, S, T, L, get N and E ). However, Ingraham found that players chose these letters less often than they selected C, D, M and A – although, according to his analysis, the latter set of letters appeared less often then.