[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'235894\' date=\'Feb 14 2010, 08:18 PM\'][quote name=\'Sodboy13\' post=\'235883\' date=\'Feb 14 2010, 05:04 PM\']Some sort of bonus round, maybe?[/quote]
Here's the thing- in game manufacturers' eyes, the bonus round doesn't count. By the time you've gotten that far, you've already decided on a winner. Secondly, it takes all but one player out of the game. That's why most game shows with solo bonus rounds don't include one in the home game. You'll notice that only the bonus rounds with multiple players (Password Plus, Pyramid, Family Feud) include a real, full fledged bonus that's fun to play. No dice.
Here's the thing: Pressman doesn't care what you do, or how you interpret the rules. Wanna make the vowels $500? Go for it. Pull another puzzle to use as the bonus? By all means, do it. Make the spaces worth ten times their normal amount ? Do it to it! Mostly everybody knows the basic rules to Wheel of Fortune. Pressman simply (and to an extent, lazily) provides the basic materials to help you get started. Where you go from there is up to you. They have the license for the game, and all they have to do is smack that logo on the box with a $15 price tag, and they're gonna sell units, thereby completing their only real objective.
As much as I agree with you that it deserves better treatment than what Pressman gives it, I can only say that I'm just waiting for the day when someone else gets the license.
/Wheel Quick Picks is actually a good interpretation
//Would like to see what Endless could do with a full version
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Points well said, and well taken.
Regarding your slashie, I think Endless getting a hold of Wheel would result in... well, pretty much just the Quick Picks version, tossed in a shelf-friendly box, maybe a larger wipe-off board, and an inflated price tag. For a company that's been at this for 12 or 13 years now, Endless still seems to have problems consistently bringing both quality of presentation and content to their games. The last version of TPIR was great for its versatility, sure, but there was no looking past the fact that you were shelling out $20 for a couple of decks of cards and some wipe off boards, and that one had to add a fair bit of theater of the mind to the proceedings. Million Dollar Password had the chrome all done quite nicely, but it came with a boatload of words that were just untenable for the faster-paced, simplified nature of the game. They do seem do have things quite down pat with regular Password, and their release of Card Sharks was also quite good - lots of surveys, nifty playing board, the only minor letdown was getting a pair of cheapie decks of cards inside instead of the custom decks rendered on the box art. But I think it says quite a bit that, when Endless does get it right, it seems to come across as a happy accident.
/Would love to see the new Password come out in Quick Picks
//$9.99 for that was a freaking steal
