Picking items when failing to obtain clue

[chrysalis2]

After reading through many of the episode summaries and interviews, I developed a thought.

I wonder if a team failed to get a clue (not enough right answers to riddles), then whatever they picked would be forced into a losing path, I think e.g. the team that lost by actually picking a weapon (which usually treguard would tell the team its a bad idea when they die, and was in the guide they were given). Now this team were given a clue, but even me in my 40s I cannot understand that clue, how children were supposed to understand it I dont know. But there is of course many deaths where no clue or only one was obtained instead of both, and its a thought does the producer of a show let teams "luck" into it. So the causeway lady as an example, she wants a comb for her hair, what happens if they pick the comb, would it have been the same scene?

[Canadanne]

I think they generally did allow them to "luck into it" even if they didn't earn a clue - as long as they have the right object and use it when they're supposed to, all is well. Problems only tend to occur when they *don't* happen to pick the right object, or when they didn't get enough riddles right to earn a spell. (I haven't actually checked so I might be forgetting examples to the contrary!)