Picking up from yesterday –
Well, here we go with my game show dreams. Sometimes, I actually kinda wonder if ‘manifesting’ is real. But that’s a thought for another day. Today, I’m just gonna talk about the Priiiiiiiiiiiize puzzle!
So, after I won my car on The Price Is Right, I got the same questions over and over. Of course I got ones that you’d expect – “What’s the deal with taxes?” “What was it like to pick up the car?” Etc.
And one that I got a gajillion times that I didn’t expect was “what’s it like to win a trip on a game show?”
I DIDN’T KNOW
And people have(/had) been asking me over and over for SEVEN YEARS. It was driving me crazy that I couldn’t quench everyone’s deep desires for these answers. So, going into Wheel of Fortune, I was like “okay, there’s a trip on the wheel. There’s a trip in the prize puzzle. There are multiple trips around. This is my chance to finally win a trip.”
So, going into Wheel, obviously winning the show was a giant goal, but winning a trip was HARDCORE something I wanted.
And here we got to the Prize Puzzle.
Now, of course the real dream is to land on Express fairly early in the Prize Puzzle round. Then you have safety to get all your money, while getting your trip. There’s practically nothing better than the express wedge – which is in large part why I wondered if there was a strategy as to not answering the second toss-up of the show, hoping you’d be in the 3rd position.
[That ultimately was deemed too risky, by me/my friends, but, getting to play the prize puzzle is hugely important!]
Now, of course my biggest fear was that Ben would have control of the board until he solved it – and then he’d be ahead, and then we’d just be fighting for the game.
But luckily (for me), he guessed S. Now, I’m not 100% sure where he thought S was… Because in the last word, I would think of S more likely if O was next to T, like OUS. But, maybe he thought it was plural, or maybe he though O _ T was OST.
I’d of course studied prize puzzles, just as I’d studied all the puzzles. And I had a sense that if the last word was an 8 letter word – especially laid out the way in which he had it with T _ O_ at the end – it was probably vacation or location (and you could tell which one after O was called, because there’d be an O in that second spot as well, which in this case there was).
So, I was expecting him to call N, because I thought that was the next most likely letter (hence why I called it when it was my turn next), but I’m sure he had his own strategy. (Well, I’m not sure. But he obviously had some sort of reasoning to call what he called.)
And whatever his strategy was, luckily for me, I ended up in control of the board!
And this is where I’ll pick up next time!