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zachhoran:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Dec 17 2003, 04:42 PM\'] [quote name=\'gsnstooge\' date=\'Dec 17 2003, 01:37 PM\'] What happens when there is a tie on Wheel of Fortune? [/quote]
I'd guess they'd play one more Toss-Up for the game. What mechanism they had in place before the Toss-Up, I have no idea. [/quote]
 A tie did happen last March, and they do now play a tossup puzzle. Before the tossup puzzles debuted, the syndie version had the tied players playing a speed up round(and, yes, Mark J., Pat did do a final spin and they did play for money or a gift certificate). A few times on the NBC daytime run in the 80s, there were ties at the end of the game. When this happened, there'd be no bonus round, and the contestants would appear on the show the next day, and the player with the highest total for the two days would be the champ. Rolf B. had to deal with such an occurrence during his brief tenure, and he had to be reminded of the rule. For special weeks on the NBC daytime run, the Speed Up tiebreaker would be played(I never saw this happen, but the official list of rules printed in the mid-1987 David Sams paperback book called WHeel of Fortune lists that rule). When the daytime version moved to CBS(and on NBC in 1991), the daytime show would break ties via a Speed Up round.

GSWitch:
I remember in a mid 80's NBC Wheel episode had a lady & two gentlemen (one a 2 time champion) in which all three contestants stayed on for three episodes.

There were two ties that happened, so no Bonus Round.  But on the 3rd show, the returning champion won & became a rare 5-time champion (when Wheel first started, there were 5 time champions before it was reduced to three).

And it even happened on Wheel 2000 (Cyber Lucy)!  Two kids were tied, so they played an extra Speed-Up.  The extra final spin was edited, David landed on 5,000 points!  

I miss Cyber Lucy!

uncamark:
[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Dec 17 2003, 10:32 PM\'] I miss Cyber Lucy! [/quote]
 Well now I've seen everything...

PeterMarshallFan:

--- Quote ---Rolf B. had to deal with such an occurrence during his brief tenure, and he had to be reminded of the rule
--- End quote ---

"I have no idea what to do here." Priceless.

gameshowguy2000:
Ok, so in the Pre-TOSS-UP years, Pat would give the wheel a final spin, like he would in a regular speed-up round, but were the prize wedges taken off the wheel to make things fair?

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