Another round of "not getting to play"...

[HYHYBT]

Wrong guesses don't help the home audience when they're edited out.

[Jeremy Nelson]

Wrong guesses don't help the home audience when they're edited out.

A wrong guess would only be edited out if they go around the horn once and there's no change in score. Otherwise, it stays in.

[Mr. Armadillo]

I've been told that this actually happened at least once on daytime. The yellow contestant banked a bunch of Free Spins and used them to hog the Wheel in Round 2. Round 3 began as a Speed-Up with a $2,000 Final Spin, and the blue contestant won without ever touching the Wheel.

I would guess that said game also had a very long Round 1 — back then, it wasn't uncommon for Round 1 to be something really short and devoid of common letters, such as DOGHOUSE. ($200. Yes, there's one S. Spin again... followed by eight or nine duds in a row. Fun times.)

If there were nine duds in a row, doesn't that mean the blue contestant touched the wheel at least three times?

[Twentington]

I've been told that this actually happened at least once on daytime. The yellow contestant banked a bunch of Free Spins and used them to hog the Wheel in Round 2. Round 3 began as a Speed-Up with a $2,000 Final Spin, and the blue contestant won without ever touching the Wheel.

I would guess that said game also had a very long Round 1 — back then, it wasn't uncommon for Round 1 to be something really short and devoid of common letters, such as DOGHOUSE. ($200. Yes, there's one S. Spin again... followed by eight or nine duds in a row. Fun times.)

If there were nine duds in a row, doesn't that mean the blue contestant touched the wheel at least three times?

Derp.

/that was the bonus puzzle on February 31, 2004

[SRIV94]

I've been told that this actually happened at least once on daytime. The yellow contestant banked a bunch of Free Spins and used them to hog the Wheel in Round 2. Round 3 began as a Speed-Up with a $2,000 Final Spin, and the blue contestant won without ever touching the Wheel.

Yes, but in daytime you had returning champions, so unless it happened to that same contestant the next day, s/he eventually got to spin the wheel.

[Twentington]

I've been told that this actually happened at least once on daytime. The yellow contestant banked a bunch of Free Spins and used them to hog the Wheel in Round 2. Round 3 began as a Speed-Up with a $2,000 Final Spin, and the blue contestant won without ever touching the Wheel.

Yes, but in daytime you had returning champions, so unless it happened to that same contestant the next day, s/he eventually got to spin the wheel.

I think it's obvious that I only mean he/she won that particular game without touching the Wheel.

[TimK2003]

While we are on the topic, did all Barry & Enright shows of the 70's & 80's give people who never had a turn a free pass to play in another match?  

ISTR that in the early formidable Joker's Wild days if the champion (who would spin first) won on 3 jokers and the challenger never got to pull the lever, the challenger came back for the next match.  I also thought I remember seeing a Bullseye game in which one player ran the board for a $2,000+ win, and the other player got to play again.  

I can see the potential for running the board on Break The Bank, but were there potential situations for "owning" a match on TTD (during the red box years), or Hot Potato at any point?

[TLEberle]

I can see the potential for running the board on Break The Bank, but were there potential situations for "owning" a match on TTD (during the red box years), or Hot Potato at any point?

Sure. Double or Nothing and the Bonus Category take care of that.

[SRIV94]

I think it's obvious that I only mean he/she won that particular game without touching the Wheel.

I know.  Couldn't resist the opportunity, though.