Author Topic: Wheel of Fortune wheel configurations (Read 33681 times)

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #75 on:** July 11, 2007, 05:08:40 PM »

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With MMM, the word game was a bore, I wanted to get right to the machine.

I felt the same way. While it's neat to have that one episode that's floating around, I remember watching originally (when I was a wee lad!) and being slightly disappointed by the show. Definately not enough pinball.

snowpeck · « **Reply #76 on:** July 15, 2007, 02:13:24 AM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'157142\' date=\'Jul 10 2007, 06:35 PM\']
I'd swear I also remember an episode from several years ago where they accidentally put the bankrupt-less side of the $10,000 space face up and didn't catch it until somebody landed on it...they let the round proceed as if nothing had happened, treating it as a cash space, and Pat explained at the start of the next round that it had been a mistake.

(And at the start of Round 4, he pointed out that "there is now a million-dollar space on the wheel." :-)
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Yes I have that episode on tape somewhere. Pat points out that its a good thing nobody landed on it or they would have had to give them $10,000 a letter!

Greg

Joe Mello · « **Reply #77 on:** July 15, 2007, 01:10:59 PM »

[quote name=\'snowpeck\' post=\'157501\' date=\'Jul 15 2007, 02:13 AM\']
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'157142\' date=\'Jul 10 2007, 06:35 PM\']
I'd swear I also remember an episode from several years ago where they accidentally put the bankrupt-less side of the $10,000 space face up and didn't catch it until somebody landed on it...they let the round proceed as if nothing had happened, treating it as a cash space, and Pat explained at the start of the next round that it had been a mistake.

(And at the start of Round 4, he pointed out that "there is now a million-dollar space on the wheel." :-)
[/quote]Yes I have that episode on tape somewhere. Pat points out that its a good thing nobody landed on it or they would have had to give them $10,000 a letter![/quote]
Of course, that happened on a different episode, but the person didn't solve so the issue was moot.

For all the flak we've given the Wild Card, it doesn't seem to be as problematic as the 10K space has been.

aaron sica · « **Reply #78 on:** July 15, 2007, 02:19:55 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'157241\' date=\'Jul 11 2007, 01:19 PM\']
With MMM, the word game was a bore, I wanted to get right to the machine.
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That's how I felt about game shows in general when I was a young child..I could care less about the main game, it was all about the bonus round. Shows like Match Game, Card Sharks, Blockbusters..I could care less about the main game! Just show me the Star Wheel, Money Cards and Gold Run...

MyronMMeyer · « **Reply #79 on:** July 15, 2007, 09:35:51 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'157241\' date=\'Jul 11 2007, 12:19 PM\']
With MMM, the word game was a bore,...
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I did the best I could.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #80 on:** July 15, 2007, 10:50:13 PM »

[quote name=\'MyronMMeyer\' post=\'157544\' date=\'Jul 15 2007, 06:35 PM\']
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'157241\' date=\'Jul 11 2007, 12:19 PM\']
With MMM, the word game was a bore,...
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I did the best I could.
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Oh, I see what you did there.

Unrealtor · « **Reply #81 on:** July 16, 2007, 12:28:21 PM »

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'157142\' date=\'Jul 10 2007, 05:35 PM\']
I'd swear I also remember an episode from several years ago where they accidentally put the bankrupt-less side of the $10,000 space face up and didn't catch it until somebody landed on it...they let the round proceed as if nothing had happened, treating it as a cash space, and Pat explained at the start of the next round that it had been a mistake.
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Does anyone know why they went with the "cash space" rather than treating it as a wider than normal version of the normal $10,000 cash prize? Is there some description in the rules that says that it has to be 1/3 the width of a normal space and/or have bankrupts on either side?

JohnHolder · « **Reply #82 on:** July 16, 2007, 01:15:01 PM »

[quote name=\'Unrealtor\' post=\'157582\' date=\'Jul 16 2007, 12:28 PM\']
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'157142\' date=\'Jul 10 2007, 05:35 PM\']
I'd swear I also remember an episode from several years ago where they accidentally put the bankrupt-less side of the $10,000 space face up and didn't catch it until somebody landed on it...they let the round proceed as if nothing had happened, treating it as a cash space, and Pat explained at the start of the next round that it had been a mistake.
[/quote]

Does anyone know why they went with the "cash space" rather than treating it as a wider than normal version of the normal $10,000 cash prize? Is there some description in the rules that says that it has to be 1/3 the width of a normal space and/or have bankrupts on either side?
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Given that it was a mistake, they probably dealt with it on the fly and didn't have time to think things through.

John, wishing they'd done that on my show...

Steve Gavazzi · « **Reply #83 on:** July 16, 2007, 11:06:27 PM »

[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'157586\' date=\'Jul 16 2007, 01:15 PM\']
[quote name=\'Unrealtor\' post=\'157582\' date=\'Jul 16 2007, 12:28 PM\']
[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'157142\' date=\'Jul 10 2007, 05:35 PM\']
I'd swear I also remember an episode from several years ago where they accidentally put the bankrupt-less side of the $10,000 space face up and didn't catch it until somebody landed on it...they let the round proceed as if nothing had happened, treating it as a cash space, and Pat explained at the start of the next round that it had been a mistake.
[/quote]

Does anyone know why they went with the "cash space" rather than treating it as a wider than normal version of the normal $10,000 cash prize? Is there some description in the rules that says that it has to be 1/3 the width of a normal space and/or have bankrupts on either side?
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Given that it was a mistake, they probably dealt with it on the fly and didn't have time to think things through.
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Or I could just be remembering it wrong -- it was 11 years ago, after all.

GS Warehouse · « **Reply #84 on:** July 17, 2007, 11:04:15 PM »

[quote name=\'jbrocato\' post=\'156922\' date=\'Jul 8 2007, 10:18 PM\']There should be spaces worth less than the cost of a vowel.[/quote]
Technically, there are already a few spaces that are worth $0--prizes, Free Spin, Wild Card, and if you get the $10k, you can't spend it on vowels. So the rate of $300+ may be on par with 1986, when the pink and purple spaces were introduced.

/bring back the brown spaces!
//bring back $50 and $75 while you're at it
///win $100,000 for solving one puzzle?!
////it's hangman, for goodness sake!

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'157138\' date=\'Jul 10 2007, 06:16 PM\'][quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'157077\' date=\'Jul 10 2007, 02:30 AM\']What if you took Don's idea and allowed contestants to "charge" their total bank? If they're in the negatives when the puzzle is solved, deduct in from their total.
[/quote]That would put the players in "jeopardy."[/quote]
[color=\"#FF0000\"][mutes Jimmy][/color]

TLEberle · « **Reply #85 on:** July 17, 2007, 11:13:16 PM »

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' post=\'157806\' date=\'Jul 17 2007, 08:04 PM\']//bring back $50 and $75 while you're at it[/quote]I thought the Goen wheel configuration was just right for what amounts to picking letters and solving a hangman puzzle. I'm almost assuredly in the minority holding that opinion, and that's fine by me.

(And next week on a very special Maury, we'll find out if Walter P. Smythe is really my father.)

J.R. · « **Reply #86 on:** July 17, 2007, 11:24:45 PM »

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'157808\' date=\'Jul 17 2007, 10:13 PM\']
I thought the Goen wheel configuration was just right for what amounts to picking letters and solving a hangman puzzle. I'm almost assuredly in the minority holding that opinion, and that's fine by me.[/quote]
You're not alone in that opinion. I happen to agree with you.

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #87 on:** July 18, 2007, 12:38:05 AM »

For a show that appeared out of thin air, I would agree. (I would still laugh a little at how much Goen was selling the thrill of hitting a $400 space, though.) But the show was the daytime companion to the syndicated hit, had been giving away much higher amounts (in prizes, admittedly) even in daytime for years and years before, and so on.

Steve McClellan · « **Reply #88 on:** July 18, 2007, 01:31:37 AM »

[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Jul 17 2007, 08:24 PM\'] [quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'157808\' date=\'Jul 17 2007, 10:13 PM\']
I thought the Goen wheel configuration was just right for what amounts to picking letters and solving a hangman puzzle. I'm almost assuredly in the minority holding that opinion, and that's fine by me.[/quote]
You're not alone in that opinion. I happen to agree with you. [/quote]
Well, it's your prerogative to be wrong.

/continues counting his $78,850 for 22 minutes' "work"

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #89 on:** July 18, 2007, 02:11:42 AM »

[quote name=\'Steve McClellan\' post=\'157816\' date=\'Jul 17 2007, 10:31 PM\']
Well, it's your prerogative to be wrong.

/continues counting his $78,850 for 22 minutes' "work"
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Do I detect a hint of bias? ;-)