24. There is also a used letter board for contestants to view to help them keep track of which consonants and vowels have already been called.
“You never see it at home, but our players do,” Pat said in the same video. “So every time a letter is called, that letter goes off, and they know not to call it again — except when they call it again… I’m kidding our players, but believe me, I understand the pressure they’re under. ”
25. If you love the Toss Up puzzles, you can thank Pat for them. 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’ve been working 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’s not my money, what do I care?”
26. In January 2015, reporter Christopher Ingraham is published an analysis for Washington Post which looked at 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 appear in these puzzles at the time (taking into account that contestants already have the letters R, S, T, L, N and E). However, Ingraham found that players chose these letters less often than they chose C, D, M, and A—even though, according to his analysis, the latter set of letters appeared less often then.
