Wheel of Fortune Wiz

[psuexv]

I love Sajak's reaction when she asks to solve the puzzle... he just doesn't even know what to say.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8118949/US-woman-solves-Wheel-of-Fortune-puzzle-with-just-one-letter-revealed.html

[JBHuskers]

That's sick. I've done it before but not on a huge puzzle like that LOL Here's my favorite Wheel of Fortune moment (pay attention to Pat's reaction)

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008-06-06/icymi-wheel-of-salad-tossing/

[psusnoop]

:D:D:D

[gschwendt]

I hate to be "that guy", but I wonder what the possibility of this being staged might be? I say that because, before today, when is the last time anyone talked about Wheel of Fortune?

[psuexv]

I can totally see that. However I think Pat's reaction when she asks to solve the puzzle is the key. He's dumbfounded and doesn't have a response. Unless he wasn't in on it to make it more real.

[psusnoop]

I could see that being staged as well, I mean what better way to drive traffic then to have something like this getting gobbled up by the media like it has. It's everywhere right now......

[steelerfan]

The part that seems fishy to me is her asking if she can solve it (as if she doesn't know she can) and then she mutters that it's a prize puzzle or whatever as if to convince everyone that solving it is the right strategical move.

[JeffHCross]

The part that seems fishy to me is her asking if she can solve it (as if she doesn't know she can) and then she mutters that it's a prize puzzle or whatever as if to convince everyone that solving it is the right strategical move.Eh ... I've watched a lot of Wheel of Fortune over the years (I'm a Sony Card member, so I have a "chance" at 50k every episode), and people will do very strange things for the prize puzzles. I read it as less strategy and more "it can't hurt, can it?"

I've also seen a lot of people who obviously knew what the puzzle was hit bankrupt before they solved it, so it's definitely Risk/Reward.

[JBHuskers]

Yeah....this isn't the first assumption of cheating. For years, starting back in the late 80's lots of people were making the assumption that Sajak had a brake by his foot for the wheel.

[JeffHCross]

That rumor definitely hasn't ever gone away. Though I've seen enough times where they've done $5,000 per letter on the Final Spin (and then they add 1k on top of that) that I find it hard to believe. I mean, who would willingly cost their company $6,000 per letter?