Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: It’s the Final Countdown

Just in case you wanted to solve one more counting-related challenge after a record-breaking week of them.

November 8, 2020 at 1:00 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

Fortune favors the bold.
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The wheel of fortune turned unfathomably slowly in the past week, but it was also somehow stunningly quick. Some candidates hit the jackpot, while others went home bankrupt. But one thing’s for sure: We’ve all gained quite an appreciation for counting.

For this week's Conundrum, we have five puzzles in the style of Wheel of Fortune: phrase patterns with some letters filled in and others left out; it’s up to you to identify the missing letters and figure out what the full phrases say.