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BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'Justin30519\' date=\'Dec 18 2003, 07:55 PM\'] I always thought it was stupid for a team to lose their turn on Lingo because they run out of time. If you don't know it, say TEACH or WATER or something. Only one exception. If you are on your last guess, you shouldn't say anything unless you know the word. If you don't know it and spell a word that can't possibly be the answer, you may be giving an extra letter to the other team.
Justin [/quote]
 If it's the last word, doesn't the other team get a free letter regardless?

joshg:
I seem to remember the contestant coordinators telling my partner and I that you have to spell a word that starts with the given letter otherwise you'd lose your turn.

JOSH

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Dec 19 2003, 01:45 AM\'] [quote name=\'Justin30519\' date=\'Dec 18 2003, 07:55 PM\'] I always thought it was stupid for a team to lose their turn on Lingo because they run out of time. If you don't know it, say TEACH or WATER or something. Only one exception. If you are on your last guess, you shouldn't say anything unless you know the word. If you don't know it and spell a word that can't possibly be the answer, you may be giving an extra letter to the other team.
Justin [/quote]
If it's the last word, doesn't the other team get a free letter regardless? [/quote]
 Yes they always get a free letter when the turn passes, but the strategy Justin suggested is not to say a word that couldn't possibly be the word due to the risk of the other team getting extra help besides the free letter.

ezbidder:
[quote name=\'Justin30519\' date=\'Dec 18 2003, 07:55 PM\'] I always thought it was stupid for a team to lose their turn on Lingo because they run out of time. If you don't know it, say TEACH or WATER or something.
Justin [/quote]
whether this is allowed or not is the question we still haven't definitively answered, since it appears nobody's tried it yet in the show, but I think we are getting closer to the answer if we are to believe the contestant coordinators directions to Josh.

eZB

gameshowguy2000:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 19 2003, 07:04 AM\'] [quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Dec 19 2003, 01:45 AM\'] [quote name=\'Justin30519\' date=\'Dec 18 2003, 07:55 PM\'] I always thought it was stupid for a team to lose their turn on Lingo because they run out of time. If you don't know it, say TEACH or WATER or something. Only one exception. If you are on your last guess, you shouldn't say anything unless you know the word. If you don't know it and spell a word that can't possibly be the answer, you may be giving an extra letter to the other team.
Justin [/quote]
If it's the last word, doesn't the other team get a free letter regardless? [/quote]
Yes they always get a free letter when the turn passes, but the strategy Justin suggested is not to say a word that couldn't possibly be the word due to the risk of the other team getting extra help besides the free letter. [/quote]
 BTW, when they keep alternating, the opponents get a free letter, until there's only ONE Blank Space left.

When that happens, they don't get a free letter, because then that would be too easy now and the word would be revealed, right?

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