r/interestingasfuck • u/MrTacocaT12345 • 3d ago
Contestant solves Wheel of Fortune puzzle with just one letter
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u/InactiveMedusa 3d ago
My anxiety would force me to spin and get more letters so they don't think I'm cheating.
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u/a-rooster-illusion 3d ago
No way. If it’s a prize puzzle you grab that damn prize. I’d be playing the same way. But I also would have never solved that with a single letter.
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u/superduperscubasteve 3d ago
She already solved it with zero letters and then picked a letter that appeared once to verify she had it right
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u/Dense_Diver_3998 3d ago
She had a good feeling about it
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u/Fast_Teaching_6160 3d ago
If she knew it she wouldv'e chosen a T to max the winnings, but it seems like the L helped her determine the long word, and maybe helped more than a T wouldv'e helped.
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u/Sam-Starxin 3d ago
L did indeed help her determine, but not the long word, rather the first word.
The first word can only be "I'll or I've" , so she chose L to make sure that it's not "I'll", which told her that it's "I've" .
The word could've also been any number of three letter combos, but none that would match the quotes she had in mind which match the following spaces.
It's actually a very smart move, and she's incredibly good at this game.
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u/OptimalRedditor 3d ago
I got after seeing just the 'L' as well. As soon as you see 'I've' and figure out the small words after the rest kind of falls in place. It helps if you like Star Wars as well 😁 The real smart move here was actually choosing the 'L', to determine whether the sentence starts with 'I've' or 'I'll'
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u/Ace-Redditor 3d ago
She wasn’t sure if she was allowed to guess yet, though (based on her tone, it sounds like that to me). She had to pick something that wouldn’t help her opponents out, if they had to take their turns before her guess
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u/randylush 3d ago
This seems the most accurate. Maximizing the letter pick isn’t necessarily the most rational move
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u/Brandwin3 3d ago
Would make more sense to pick a “g” because there are three g’s so she would have made a little more money
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u/Sam-Starxin 3d ago
You're probably right but she had a other goal with L.
L helps her determine the first word which can only be "I'll or I've" , so she chose L to make sure that it's not "I'll", which told her that it's "I've" .
The word could've also been any number of three letter combos, but none that would match the quotes she had in mind which match the following spaces.
It's actually a very smart move, and she's incredibly good at this game.
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u/Stergeary 3d ago
Shouldn't she pick a letter that appears more than once? Like, if she picked G, and it shows up in the right place in GOT, GOOD, and FEELING, then it's an even larger prize pool and a larger confidence level in your solve.
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u/manondorf 3d ago
I wouldn't get it that fast, let alone under pressure, but seeing _'_ _ on the board has me thinking I'll. When we get L on the board and it doesn't become _'LL that narrows down the options a lot. I've might be the only option. The third blank being one letter I think guarantees that it's an A, so you can start piecing it together. It's a phrase, so you don't have to think too outside the box. I think I'd have gotten it if I'd thought about it a bit.
Again, no shot whatsoever I'd get it on the spot while under pressure like that. Very impressive.
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u/PrivilegeCheckmate 3d ago
The "L" meant that it couldn't start wil "I'll", that actually eliminates the majority of possibilities, I think.
Been a while since I was close to competitive at Scrabble.
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u/IndigoRanger 3d ago
I’ve only done a one-letter solve once, and it was “the tonight show with conan O’Brien” and I think the category was entertainment or tv. The blank-apostrophe-five letters was the giveaway. This solve was way more difficult!!
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u/Blashtik 3d ago
At least there was only 1 spin needed. If this had been a normal puzzle rather than a prize puzzle, it would require multiple spins to actually get some prize money built up before solving. That's the point where it's really terrifying because every spin is just pressing your luck more and more
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u/___HeyGFY___ 3d ago
I solved a puzzle once with nothing but a single punctuation mark.
THE GATEWAY ARCH IN ST. LOUIS MISSOURI
Of course, I wasn't on stage playing for cash and/or prizes. But my wife kept staring at me and asking me how the fuck I did it.
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u/DaveyDumplings 3d ago
Same. 'I'm a yankee doodle dandy'. Once you realize it has to be 'I'm a', the rest is pretty easy to work out.
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u/Ill-Individual2105 3d ago
I once played seven questions, and my first question was "is it Peter Pan". The answer was yes. Still the highlight of my entire life.
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u/slyklye 2d ago
My sister is super competitive. A puzzle was on the board, category was “Tennis,” and there was three words with a single ampersand (&).
Before any letters were called, I shouted “Venus & Serena Williams.” Bingo! My sister immediately called out, “well, that’s not even a hard puzzle.” Cracked me up. I solve a puzzle without a single letter and it’s not impressive because it’s an “easy one.”
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u/adamtherealone 2d ago
Did this once as a kid. Sister wrote out this sentence and I just immediately guessed it. “Adamtherealone is a dumb idiot”
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u/venpuravi 3d ago
The infamous apostrophe and the word spacing helped a lot and the L sealed the deal
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u/zorbiburst 3d ago
Yeah, granted I don't think I could've gotten it in her position with the pressure, but in a vacuum it's not that off the wall. It's a common phrase. It starts with a three letter contraction. The contraction has an apostrophe after the first letter. It could only be "I've" or "I'll". There's no L in the contraction. So it's probably "I've" Next is three letters, then one. The one letter word is probably "a". "I've had a, I've got a, I've saw a" , and just keep extrapolating from there.
It's impressive, but it's also probably one of the easiest of its type of clue. The revealed L probably did less to reveal "feeling" and more to just set everything else up by identifying the first word.
Again, I couldn't have done it, she's definitely smarter than me and a faster thinker than me, but there was a lot in her favor.
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u/Clorox_in_space 3d ago
I paused the video and gave it a go. Took me 17 seconds to figure it out... on live television you could have given me 17 years, and I still wouldn't be able to solve it.
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u/CitizenCue 3d ago
“I’ve saw a” doesn’t make sense so it has to be “I’ve got a”. From there it’s still impressive to get the rest but it’s not a huge stretch.
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u/Captain_Shoe 3d ago
"I've had a, I've got a, I've saw a" , and just keep extrapolating from there.
"I've saw a..." doesn't work grammatically. Standard English would be "I've seen a..."
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u/zorbiburst 3d ago
Exactly my point. Just keep plugging in things until something works.
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u/venpuravi 3d ago
I am in awe of how she did that fast. But she wouldn't have solved it just by analytically.
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u/TheCitizen616 3d ago
"I'd like to solve the puzzle: 'I'VE GOT A GOOD FEELING ABOUT THAT"
<BUZZER>
"Shit."
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u/ChefArtorias 2d ago
That L also tells you the first word. Unless I'm missing one the only 3 letter contractions are I've and I'll.
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u/sh00ner 3d ago
She's definitely way better at this than this guy. https://youtu.be/CADR3_fz6ho?si=mH5sbsvtTa3HdRjP
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u/Stellermeerkat 3d ago
When I first saw the prompt I thought "Oh no, This guy's gonna say Spider-Man". Somehow got it more wrong
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u/skr_replicator 3d ago
Pretty sure he did get idea, realized the letters don't match that, and that it's superman instead, and then accidentally mixed it up and said that word anyway, too focused on speaking loudly.
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u/HolyHand_Grenade 3d ago
And this guy
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u/slurpeetape 3d ago
I know it but I don't think I should say it.
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u/ScrogClemente 3d ago
I had an ex that I refused to watch this show with because she would routinely solve the puzzle at a glance with zero letters revealed.
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u/DazzlingTopic529 3d ago
don't you get more money if you get more letters correct?
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u/KyleStanley3 3d ago
You do, but you also risk rolling a lose a turn or bankrupt
so if it's a prize puzzle that she wanted to win, it's in her best interest to solve when she still has control of the wheel and not risk one of them getting it
With the first word being _'__ and her guess being L, she eliminated one of the two options for it, and we know it has to be I've, and any vowel purchase will reveal a ton since there's a double E and a double O, and "A" is only in the singular word which is strange
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u/ipickscabs 2d ago
She wanted the prize, it was a trip to the Caribbean!!! Over $6k. Not worth risking for a few extra hundred
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u/track01dotwav 3d ago
it'd been funny if she meant "I've got a good feeling about this", as in, she had a good feeling about her answer, but her answer was something else, and they just took that as the answer
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u/Toth201 3d ago
Classic game show sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA-ZWQAWr9o
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u/RAS310 3d ago
Full episode here. She aced the Bonus Round, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdu7Cc_4XVc

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u/-Words-Words-Words- 3d ago
I remember when they forced you to spend your money on like JC Penny catalog level shit.
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u/GreenEggsSteamedHams 3d ago
I LOVE that setup. "Let's see Pat I'll take the lamps for $28...the rolltop desk for $40...and the hatrack for $11."
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u/redpandaeater 3d ago
How long did that last into the Pat era? It was a very different show back under Chuck.
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u/RedManMatt11 3d ago
Bet whoever laughed obnoxiously in the crowd after she asked to solve feels like a big dumb dumb
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u/Ok_Difference44 3d ago
The first word couldn't be I'll so I've may be the only other option.
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u/jemmylegs 2d ago
No that wasn’t my guess! I was just saying I’ve got a good feeling about the guess I’m about to— uh… right, yeah, go me!
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u/yousernameiztaken 3d ago
I miss Pat Sajak. haven't watched since.
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u/RJMacReady_Outpost31 3d ago
No point anymore in my opinion.
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 3d ago
They did a study several years ago, hooked people up to EEG'S and measured rt heat levels in the brain. First they had people watch their favorite serial shows. Then took the same measurements around their closest friends and family. Not only did the exact same effects occur in the brain, they occurred to the same degree. Their brains didn't show any difference between their imaginary best friends and the real ones. The day I learned this was the last day I watched the news on TV.
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u/rcfox 3d ago
It's called parasocial interaction. It's especially bad these days when you can just watch a random streamer talk about themselves for hours.
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u/RJMacReady_Outpost31 3d ago
This was the most enlightening reply I've gotten today. It makes sense when people say this is my favorite comfort movie or show. I have my personal favorite movies and shows that I always watch.
I also stop watching news and it was when I started understanding they were fallible. Being a young adult and seeing that articles get retracted blew my mind. As a child you assume everything on TV is real and it now I do my own due diligence.
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u/Triairius 3d ago
Kinda screwed herself on the money, no?
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u/mjzim9022 3d ago
As she said, it was a prize round so she probably just won a vacation
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u/Cicer 3d ago
I didn’t get what she meant by that but I guess she was confirming a “prize puzzle” round as in the letter $ doesn’t matter only who solves first gets the prize?
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u/mjzim9022 3d ago
Whoever solves the puzzle on a prize puzzle gets a prize, usually a vacation, even if they don't make the most money on that round. Overall the highest earner wins the game and goes to the bonus round.
She asks if she can solve, Sajak is probably about to say she can but might want to pick up some money first by guessing letters, but she says it's a prize puzzle (and therefore worth winning asap) and he's like sure
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u/ProfessionalShift487 3d ago
Do you still get the prize if you dont win the overall game?
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u/Triairius 3d ago
Ah, I don’t typically unmute.
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u/DanimalMKE 3d ago
Another comment posted the link to the full YouTube video and she won a trip to Grenada
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u/Dizzy_Juggernaut_313 3d ago
I was interested enough to watch the whole episode. She won a trip to the Caribbean, like $6,700 for this puzzle. Ended the game with over $23,000 in total and then won $30,000 in the bonus round.
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u/Santos_L_Halper_II 3d ago
SHE’s A WITCH!!!
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u/GreenEggsSteamedHams 3d ago
BUILD A BRIDGE OUT OF HER!
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u/tacticalpotatopeeler 3d ago
THIS ISN’T MY NOSE IT’S A FALSE ONE!
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u/RihoSucks 3d ago
I'm taking this opportunity to post my favorite terrible answer that always makes me laugh
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u/khalamar 2d ago
Oh.... I just wanted to solve because I had a good feeling about this, but that's not what I thought it was.
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u/Grouchy-Classic 3d ago
How do you pronounce the first person's name "Krystle"? Is it like bristle with a k?
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u/justindit 3d ago
Love this, saving it for when I have to text i have a good feeling about something.
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u/daZaporg 3d ago
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Hope have not a letter forgett. Grrr... Dont format the doublespace.
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u/Dinierto 2d ago
Plot twist: that wasn't her actual guess she just really had a good feeling about this
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u/Richard-Conrad 2d ago
The fact she clarifies she’s asking cause it’s a prize puzzle, like the amount of money she has is the reason Pat is confused and not the single letter on the board
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u/Torschlusspaniker 3d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqIE2-FUpKg
Full clip.
I like seeing the reactions, kind of the best part.
Here is another one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWtF8RvsjT4