In your opinion why different parts have different frequency? in wheel of fortune
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If you ever find yourself on Wheel of Fortune and make it all the way to the final round, choose the letters G, H, P and O. That's the big takeaway from an analysis of the final bonus puzzles that appeared on all 1,546 Wheel of Fortune episodes between 2007 and today.
A quick refresher: on Wheel of Fortune, the contestant who's won the most money during regular play gets a shot at the bonus puzzle at the end of the show. In the bonus puzzle, you're given a category ("Thing," "Phrase," etc.) and the number of letters in the word(s) you're trying to guess. The letters R, S, T, L, N and E are gimmes -- Vanna White flips these ones over for you automatically. You then get to choose three more consonants plus one vowel -- those are revealed as well, and then you have 10 seconds to solve the puzzle.
This video of a typical bonus puzzle should suffice for the three of you who've never watched the show.
Everyone up to speed? Good! Now, if you were to take every bonus puzzle solution between 2007 and today -- all 1,546 of them -- and dump every single letter from every single puzzle out on a table, the distribution of letters would look like this: You might expect that vowels are the most frequently appearing letters, but you may be surprised at which vowels appear the most. Nearly one out of every ten bonus puzzle letters is an O. I's aren't far behind. The six gimme letters also appear high up in the list.
Now, if you're a contestant, you need to choose three of the remaining consonants (green) plus one remaining vowel (purple). Looking at this chart, you can see that you'd get your best odds choosing H, G, P and O. But! If you've ever watched the show, you know that contestants rarely make this selection. Instead, they most frequently choose the letters C, D, M and A.
A quick refresher: on Wheel of Fortune, the contestant who's won the most money during regular play gets a shot at the bonus puzzle at the end of the show. In the bonus puzzle, you're given a category ("Thing," "Phrase," etc.) and the number of letters in the word(s) you're trying to guess. The letters R, S, T, L, N and E are gimmes -- Vanna White flips these ones over for you automatically. You then get to choose three more consonants plus one vowel -- those are revealed as well, and then you have 10 seconds to solve the puzzle.
This video of a typical bonus puzzle should suffice for the three of you who've never watched the show.
Everyone up to speed? Good! Now, if you were to take every bonus puzzle solution between 2007 and today -- all 1,546 of them -- and dump every single letter from every single puzzle out on a table, the distribution of letters would look like this: You might expect that vowels are the most frequently appearing letters, but you may be surprised at which vowels appear the most. Nearly one out of every ten bonus puzzle letters is an O. I's aren't far behind. The six gimme letters also appear high up in the list.
Now, if you're a contestant, you need to choose three of the remaining consonants (green) plus one remaining vowel (purple). Looking at this chart, you can see that you'd get your best odds choosing H, G, P and O. But! If you've ever watched the show, you know that contestants rarely make this selection. Instead, they most frequently choose the letters C, D, M and A.
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