User blog comment:UltimaGanon/My Take on Returning Champions in Wheel of Fortune/@comment-2600:1:B14D:D00F:A598:B71D:81FC:E3C8-20190410235801

I've been looking to discuss WOF forever. I agree about returning champs- it would be mostly more fun to watch. One unsaid reason to eschew this is that usually contestants are dopey and would never be mistaken for wordsmiths. More often than not the daily winner stumbles into the final, with their chance of solvoing dependent on the simplicity of the puzzle, the common letters revealed, and the fortuitiveness of their called consonants. I think this fact would be glaring when they returned for another try.

Things that annoy me on WOF: 1) Unnecessarily buying vowels, mainly when the puzzle is apparent, and they're wasting money. 2) Skittishness by solving too soon. You have over an 80% chance of hitting a money spot on each spin, so if there are letters with multiples left in the puzzle, you should almost always keep spinning.3) Disqualifying a solve in the Crossword Clues round when someone adds an "and" or something during the reading of the board. That's blatantly unfair, and they need to drop it pronto. Actually, if you call letters to the full conclusion of any puzzle, I see no need to read it at all. 4) The most egregious error of all, which is seen WAY too often: a contestant who knows the puzzle calls a letter which appears once on the last pick before solving- and doesn't call ones with multiples, leaving money on the board! Some boob the other day landed on the $2500 spot, had an easy call of a consonant appearing in the puzzle three times for $7500, and inexplicably opted for a single one, costing himself 5k- and was joyous without realizing how stupiid he was. I wonder if Pat points out these things during the breaks. I know I would; they'd probably admonish me constantly.

Well, I hope this posts, and I hope someone reads it. Or not. It was cathartic just writing it out. Also, there is one situation on Wheel when I would intentionally call a letter, such as "q", that isn't in the puzzle. But I'll save that for next time.