24.
There’s
also
a
used
letter
board
the
contestants
can
view
to
help
them
keep
track
of
which
consonants
and
vowels
have
already
been
called.
“You
never
see
that
at
home,
but
our
players
see
it,”
Pat
said
in
the
same
video.
“So
every
time
a
letter
is
called
that
letter
comes
off,
that
light
turns
off,
and
they
know
not
to
call
it
again—except
when
they
do
call
it
again….I
kid
our
players,
but,
believe
me,
I
understand
the
pressures
they’re
under.”
25.
If
you
love
the
Toss
Up
puzzles,
you
can
thank
Pat
for
those.
As
he
explained,
Wheel
of
Fortune
was
facing
a
challenge:
“How
do
we
get
more
content
and
not
take
up
a
lot
of
time?”
Pat
told
Maggie.
“So
I
did
come
up
with
the
Toss
Up
puzzles,
and
they’ve
worked
real
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
published
an
analysis
for
The
Washington
Post
that
looked
at
1,546
final
bonus
puzzles
from
2007
to
that
year.
Based
on
his
examination,
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
are
already
given
the
letters
R,
S,
T,
L,
N
and
E).
However,
Ingraham
found
that
players
chose
these
letters
less
frequently
than
they
selected
C,
D,
M
and
A—even
though,
according
to
his
analysis,
the
latter
set
of
letters
appeared
less
frequently
back
then.
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