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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: gameboy2000 on June 11, 2020, 05:36:34 AM
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Was the star ever the stinger?
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I kept an eye on that for the show’s entire run, and I’m fairly sure it never was.
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Nope, it never was... in fact, the contestants were told by producers that if the star was in play, it was NEVER a stinger, so it would be a good idea to choose it.
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[citation needed].
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The star was there to indicate punctuation marks. It could not possibly have been a stinger.
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[citation needed].
It was from a contestant interview, possibly Cheryl Gilmore... unfortunately I can't find it right now.
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The star was there to indicate punctuation marks. It could not possibly have been a stinger.
Yeah, it represented all punctuation marks, but if there hadn't been a never-explicitly-stated-to-the-home-audience rule specifically saying the star is never used as the stinger, there's no logistical reason that it couldn't have been.
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My thinking is that they can differentiate from Wheel of Fortune by having punctuation unrevealed, but if the star key is always in the puzzle when lit you're basically giving a freebie to the first team to solve a toss-up clue. (Perhaps it isn't super useful at that point, but it does mean that the solver stands an excellent chance of getting to guess.)