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24. There\u2019s also a used letter board the contestants can view to help them keep track of which consonants and vowels have already been called. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou never see that at home, but our players see it,\u201d Pat said in the same video. \u201cSo every time a letter is called that letter comes off, that light turns off, and they know not to call it again\u2014except when they do call it again\u2026.I kid our players, but, believe me, I understand the pressures they\u2019re under.\u201d <\/p>\n
25. If you love the Toss Up puzzles, you can thank Pat for those. As he explained, Wheel of Fortune<\/em> was facing a challenge: <\/p>\n \u201cHow do we get more content and not take up a lot of time?\u201d Pat told Maggie<\/a>. \u201cSo I did come up with the Toss Up puzzles, and they\u2019ve worked real 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\u2019s not my money, what do I care?\u201d<\/p>\n 26. In January 2015, reporter Christopher Ingraham<\/strong> published an analysis for The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> that looked at 1,546 final bonus puzzles from 2007 to that year. Based on his examination, he wrote that H, G, P and O were the letters most likely to appear in these puzzles at the time (taking into account that contestants are already given the letters R, S, T, L, N and E). However, Ingraham found that players chose these letters less frequently than they selected C, D, M and A\u2014even though, according to his analysis, the latter set of letters appeared less frequently back then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n