I understand that if you spell a different word than you say, they accept the word you spell, but what if it's outrageous, like "Approach. A-P-P.....L-E" Would they still accept it? my guess would be yes, but i want to make sure.

Since I don't believe anybody here actually works on the show, I doubt you're going to get a definitive answer on such a wacky question "for sure".

My personal opinion is that they wouldn't let a player get away with such an obvious mistake, but I have no more insight than you or anyone else.

QUOTE (Matt Ottinger @ Aug 26 2003, 09:45 PM)

Since I don't believe anybody here actually works on the show, I doubt you're going to get a definitive answer on such a wacky question "for sure". My personal opinion is that they wouldn't let a player get away with such an obvious mistake, but I have no more insight than you or anyone else.

I'm almost sure I've seen an instance where a contestant gave a six- or seven-letter word, then played it off as if it only had five letters. They got the buzzer. :-)

QUOTE (fostergray82 @ Aug 26 2003, 08:29 PM)

I'm almost sure I've seen an instance where a contestant gave a six- or seven-letter word, then played it off as if it only had five letters. They got the buzzer. :-)

Yeah, but in those cases whatever they spelled wasn't even close to a real word, too.

I can't answer this truly ridiculous question, but I know what award they'd get from me:

"Mah-rone. M-O-R-O-N."

I could've sworn in last night's rerun I saw one of the contestants in the bonus game say "server", spelled it "S E (pause, realizing "server" is 6 letters) V E R" and they lit up the first four letters in "SEVER" in red. They later got the right word -- "SEVEN".

So, I get the sense you could mispronounce the word, but so long as the spelling leads to a legit word, it's OK.